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SDS Senior Seminar and Thesis Presentations

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The Integrated Design and Design & Management Seniors of the SDS Senior Seminar and Studio are proud to invite you to the presentation of their capstone projects. Please join us in celebrating their amazing work! May 15 @ 2 West 13th ...Read More

PARSONS FESTIVAL 2013: Designing Urban Transformation

The MA Theories of Urban Practice program at the School of Design Strategies presents: A series of student presentations analyzing transformative design projects.   Parsons The New School for Design 66 Fifth Avenue, Room 600 F New York NY 10011   Program: Cheonggeycheon Stream Restoration Project, Seoul, South ...Read More

SUBMIT: 2013 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards

This year Fast Company is again celebrating the most innovative designs and designers with the Innovation By Design Awards. The Innovation By Design Awards recognize the design world’s most inspired work. Submit your most award-worthy project from the past year in one of ...Read More

Late Night New York’s first episode at SDS!

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"Late Night New York" is a new, independent live audience talk-show created to engage the cultural undercurrents of New York City. Hosted by Jayson Green and Justin Williams, Late Night New York features emerging contemporary artists, performers, musicians, activists and ...Read More

2013 CSI Incubator: Call for Proposals

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     Parsons School of Design Strategies, Parsons DESIS Lab and the Centre for Social Innovation are partnering together to explore new ways to support recent graduates as they work to achieve social impact in their chosen fields. This post-graduate ...Read More

CONCURRENT URBANITIES 3

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Concurrent Urbanities brings together designers, artists, architects, urbanists, planners, non-profit and non-governmental organizations, civic and community activists, with government representatives and the private sector, in order to explore new roles that artists and designers play in encouraging processes of radical democratization, forms of ...Read More

SDS Digital Modeling class published

The New York City Department of Design and Construction has included the work of one of our Digital Modeling for Urban Design classes. As part of their Town + Gown Program which unites academic programs and practitioner resources to create ...Read More

Fernando Lara Lecture: Participation Matters

Participation Matters: Fernando Lara

Fernando Luiz Lara is a Brazilian architect with degrees from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (BArch, 1993) and the University of Michigan (PhD, 2001). Prof. Lara's interests revolve around Latin American 20th century architecture with emphasis on the dissemination ...Read More

CANCELLED Stephan Weiss Lecture: Joke Robaard

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We regret to announce that Joke Robaard, scheduled to deliver the final Weiss Lecture of this year on Thursday, has suffered an injury and will be unable to join us this week. Accordingly we are obliged to cancel the lecture. Read More

Victoria Marshall, SDS Faculty Member, published in The Nature of Cities blog

Victoria Marshall has had an article posted in The Nature of Cities collective blog on the urban ecology framework of Patch Dynamics. The post functions as "a how-to-draw-a-patch guide, and partly a reflection on Patch Dynamics, an ecology framework that ...Read More

MA Urban Practice student published in The Global Urbanist

Matt DelSesto, a student in the MA Theories of Urban Practice program, has made the headlines of a leading global blog on urbanism based in London, The Global Urbanist. * "Sceptical of the narrative that cities have wholeheartedly embraced urban gardening initiatives, Matt DelSesto spies ...Read More

Strategic Design & Social Innovation: A Conversation with Helsinki Design Lab

Presented by Parsons DESIS Lab and the Centre for Social Innovation  The intersection of design and social innovation is attracting growing attention. An increasing number of practitioners and enthusiasts are convinced that strategic design is key to unlocking some of today's ...Read More

Emerging Asian Cities: Provocations and Practices / a public symposium

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Rethinking the design and experiences of emerging Asian cities through photography, fashion, graphic design, architecture, history, anthropology, and urbanism, this symposium features a series of thematic conversations between scholar/practitioners from Parsons and those contributing to a new book, The Emerging Asian ...Read More

Social Justice & The City 1973-2013

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40 Year Anniversary to Commemorate David Harvey's Seminal Book Social Justice and The City NEW YORK, NY - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Graduate Program in Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons The New School for Design and The Center for Place Culture ...Read More

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Volume 6, Spring 2013: Designing for Billions

Guest Editors: Carlos Teixeira, Associate Professor of Design and Management, SDS Bruce Nussbaum, Professor of Innovation and Design, SDS   Volume 6 addresses the themes of “Designing for Billions.” This issue examines new opportunities for designers, entrepreneurs, activists, policy makers and investors in the ...Read More

Stephan Weiss Lecture Series: J. Morgan Puett on Workstyles

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This year’s Stephan Weiss Lecture Series continues on April 4th with a presentation by J. Morgan Puett entitled “Workstyles,” Morgan's projects traverse both the art world and the fashion system, defining a social practice that challenges the status quo of insular ...Read More

Parsons Integrated Design Alumnus new children’s book covered in El Diaro NY

Parsons Integrated Design Program Alum Duncan Tonatiuh's new children's book "El conejo Pancho y el coyote" was covered in the new york edition of El Diaro. The tale of a rabbit who goes in search of his father who crossed ...Read More

SJDC WALLPAPERS: Fresh Walls 2013! Call for Submissions

Application deadline: April 1, 2013, midnight Parsons community! The walls at the elevator banks at 2 W. 13th Street and 66 5th Avenue are ready for a makeover! These highly visible surfaces reflect Parsons’ design excellence, both within The New School ...Read More

Amanda Ramos: A Day In The Life Of A Design Strategist

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                            Amanda Ramos, a design strategist at the architectural and engineering firm Gensler, will give students a presentation on what a day in the life of a design strategist is like. Read More

IDP Collab: Orchestral Garments Fall 2012 & The Gift Spring 2013

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This collaboration studio works with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to imagine the future of orchestra performance in a networked world where the audience gains access to new ways of experiencing and interacting with music – both inside and outside the ...Read More

THE URBANIZATION OF SHOCK THERAPY: SOUTHEAST EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS

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Earth Week 2013 Design Competition: Submissions due April 8th

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Environmental Studies Student Finalist in Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge

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Parsons environmental studies senior, Rena Lee, collaborated with students from Cooper Union and NYU to win the Community Impact award in NYC's Reinvent Payphones design challenge. Their project, Windchimes, envisions turning New York City's payphone infrastructure into an environmental sensing network ...Read More

DECOLONIZING ANARCHISM URBAN SPECULATION

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Public lecture by Maia Ramnath 6:00 to 7:30pm The Bark Room, 2 West 13th Street, NYC   Read More

SDS Student a Finalist in New School Competition!

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Cristina Handal has a unique idea that she thinks will significantly improve the lives of women in Honduras, and this idea has been recognized as a finalist for the New Challenge 2013. This graduate student in the MS Design & ...Read More

SUMMER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

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  Summer Intern-Real Estate & Design Strategy Description Gensler New York is currently accepting applications for our 2013 Summer Intern Program.  We offer interns the opportunity to work on projects as an integrated member of our design teams. In addition, our summer interns will attend weekly learning sessions and tour projects that are under construction ...Read More

THE PUBLIC PRIVATE – EXHIBITION

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The Public Private will be the first New York exhibition of contemporary art to explore the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm. Read More

AIGA/NY @ PARSONS LECTURE SERIES

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In partnership with the New York Chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, Parsons hosts a regular lecture series each semester on campus, inviting some of the most dynamic people in the industry to share their work and outlook ...Read More

BRICOLLAB PRESENTS: CONTRASTING ENTERPRISES: OUTDOOR ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC SPACES

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A screening of the documentary, This Space Available, followed by a discussion.   Read More

CAREER PATHWAYS LECTURE WITH DR. ASHLEY MEARS

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Dr. Ashley Mears, assistant professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Boston University is a writer on fashion in both academia and journalistic fields and will be speaking about her research and career path in and out ...Read More

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