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CONCURRENT URBANITIES 3

Concurrent Urbanities 3

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

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

EXHIBITION: ELASTIC GROUND at CUCHIFRITOS Gallery, Lower East Side, New York

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Opening: 4:00-6:30 pm, December 18, 2012 Location: Cuchifritos Gallery, Essex Street Market, 120 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002 The exhibition will be open 12-6 pm on December 18-26, 2012 (closed on 12/24-25) *** The exhibition Elastic Ground presents alternatives to standard commercial ideas for the ...Read More

Urban Uprising! re-imagining the city Nov 30 – Dec 1st 2012

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IDp Faculty Speaker for TEDxDumbo

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Caroline Woolard was invited to give a TEDx talk on three Urban Design proposals based in New York City. Caroline is an artist whose work lives where people gather – whether it’s the street, the subway, or the internet. She has ...Read More

Urban Colloquium: Vera Tangari 7pm Oct. 4th Kellen Auditorium

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                          Dr. Vera Tangari is a community activist, architect and urbanist, and a professor and reseacher at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.  Dr. Tangari and her colleagues will present four fascinating case studies from Brazil of research as a ...Read More

Innovation By Design Awards: Student Designs

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Earlier this year, we put out a call to the design and business communities: What are the best design-driven innovations of the past year? More than 1,100 companies and organizations responded, offering 1,700 nominees in nine categories. An all-star group of ...Read More

Daniel Hill invited to exhibit in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles 2012

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Daniel Hill, Assistant Professor, and three other members of American Abstract Artist (AAA) have been invited to exhibit in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles 2012. The exhibition will be held in the Parc Floral de Paris, Paris France, 8–15 April—opening reception ...Read More

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Drawing Lab: Sensori-motor City

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October 27th | The Drawing Lab will transform Aronson Gallery into a three-dimensional data mining and drawing apparatus. The installation accumulates works made by the public: free-hand drawing, photo and video, spatial diagramming and measurement, textual performance and language play...which ...Read More

Pseudo Public Space

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October 8th | Parsons the New School for Design is pleased to host the The Art in Odd Places 2011 Festival panel discussion titled Pseudo Public Space moderated by Miodrag Mitrasinovic with panelists Tania Duvergne, Sara Reisman, Leon Reid IV, ...Read More

Glandathon Workshop

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October 1st | Parsons the New School for Design is pleased to host the The Art in Odd Places 2011 Festival key note address by Linda Mary Montano. Titled Glandathon Workshop, audience members will experience of the seven energy centers of ...Read More

Making Cities: Whither Design?

Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue | To celebrate the launch of three new programs in urban design and urbanism at Parsons, and the separate publication of a seminal new book, ...Read More

Walking Waves: Collected Sounds and Remixes of the City

Walking Waves: Collected Sounds and Remixes of the City

In a city like New York, how does sounds create comfort and how does it restrict it? Saturday, August 6, 2011, 2-4 pm The BMW-Guggenheim Lab opened it's doors in the East Village this week and will be running programs through ...Read More

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Strategizing Design

May 16 | Roundtable fora presented by the Parsons School of Design Strategies on research and creative practice tackles the themes of strategic activism, form and meaning, demographic dynamics, and disruptive systems. Location: Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Orientation Room ...Read More

CHARLES GOLDMAN – 3D Studio Faculty Member, Awarded 2011 Guggenheim

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N.BTWN.WRK (82/96/54), 2007 — Please join SDS in congratulating 3D Studio faculty member Charles Goldman for his 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Out of over 3000 applicants, Charles was one of 180 candidates to receive this prestigious award. This ...Read More

Grid Scenes

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Parsons and Art in Odd Places Present Street Performance Celebrating NYC Grid Centennial On Friday, April 1st and Sunday, April 3rd Parsons The New School for Design in partnership with Art in Odd Places and the Harmattan Theater will present  “Grid ...Read More

Gowanus Arctic Mapping

Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn

This exhibit is brought to The New School by the newly formed Geo Club and sponsored by urban@parsons during Water Week. The exhibit celebrates the creative, thoughtful, and rigorous application of DIY tools learned in a core urban class to support the work of ...Read More

DESIS Lab Presents DESIGNING SERVICES/DESIGNING SOCIETIES With Lucy Kimbell 

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DESIS Lab Presents Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series DESIGNING SERVICES/DESIGNING SOCIETIES With Lucy Kimbell Said Business School, University of Oxford and Fieldstudio, London Date: Monday, March 21, 2011 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY In this talk Lucy will ...Read More

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DESIS Lab Presents SERVICE DESIGN: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS With Andy Polaine

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DESIS Lab Presents Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series SERVICE DESIGN: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS With Andy Polaine Date: Monday, February 14, 2011 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY Service Design is more than the sum ...Read More

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Cities, Time, and Narratives AMPLIFIED

Cities, Time, and Narratives AMPLIFIED

Cities, Time, and Narratives AMPLIFIED - A panel discussion. Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 W. 13th St., 2nd Fl. All are invited to attend this special panel discussion about cities and ...Read More

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KEVIN HENRY – Lecture: Mental Maps + Geographic Realities

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The School of Design Strategies will host a lecture by Kevin Henry, Associate Professor of Product Design,  Columbia College Chicago. When: Wednesday, February 9 at 6:00 p.m. Where: Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor The lecture is free and open to ...Read More

ATLANTIS PROGRAM EVENTS: URBANISMS OF INCLUSION

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URBAN@PARSONS PRESENTS: Friday December 17, 12:00 - 3:00 PM URBANISMS OF INCLUSION: ATLANTIS TRANSATLANTIC EDUCATION PROGRAM Pecha-kucha presentations followed by a panel discussion with: Teddy Cruz, Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon, Glenn Smith, Brian McGrath, Miodrag Mitrasinovic Glass corner 25 E. 13th Street, 2nd floor Thursday ...Read More

The Journal of Design Strategies, Vol 5: TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN

The Journal of Design Strategies welcomes submissions for the Spring 2011 issue, addressing the theme of “Transdisciplinary Design.” This issue of the Journal explores emergent design practices that generate new outcomes, establish new fields, or reconfigure our understanding of design. ...Read More

The Journal of Design Strategies, Vol 4: CHANGE DESIGN

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Guest Editor: Dr. Lara Penin, Assistant Professor of Transdisciplinary Design, SDS | Executive Editor Dr. Lisa DeBenedittis | Managing Editor Dr. Matthew H. Robb Read More

The Present and Future of Urbanism

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Please join us on November 29th for a stimulating discussion on the state of the art and challenges for the future of cities as Parsons prepares to launch new graduate programs in Urbanism. Read More

SDS Faculty Member, Dan Hill, Exhibiting at the Painting Center

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SDS faculty member and Foundation instructor, Dan Hill, will be exhibiting in the Project Room of the Painting Center, November 2-27. Please join him for the opening reception on Thursday, November 4, 6-8 pm. He will be showing a selection ...Read More

What is Service Design? by Laura Forlano

In this article for Urban Omnibus Laura Forlano an Adjunct Faculty member in the Design and Management program at Parsons The New School for Design and a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University sat down with several leading designers and researchers ...Read More

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DESIS Lab Presents This Is Also Service Design Thinking With Marc Stickdorn

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Service Design Performances – Fall 10 Series This is also Service Design Thinking Marc Stickdorn Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm Location: Orientation Room ("Bark Room") at 2 W 13th Street, NY During this presentation Marc Stickdorn will introduce new methods and tools ...Read More

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Open Innovation Systems: New Models for an Innovation-Driven Society

Open Innovation Lecture

The School of Design Strategies would like to invite you to a lecture on Open Innovation Systems: New Models for an Innovation-Driven Society by Paolo Zanenga the founding partner and CEO of TWG Consulting - Excellence Center for Innovation Management, ...Read More

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URBAN INCLUSIONS: Grassroots Mapping

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On Saturday Jeff Warren, the founder of grassrootsmapping.org led a balloon and kite aerial mapping workshop for the students of  Street Life and Mapping the City. Grassroots Mapping has completed a range of participatory mapping projects ...Read More

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