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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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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

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

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

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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 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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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 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

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

SDS Projects: Urban Communities

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  The Solar D team presents in Deanwood, Washington DC March 27th Parsons The New School for Design and Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy recently launched a multi-year initiative with Stevens Institute of Technology to explore the use ...Read More

Cynthia Lawson Exhibition

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Faculty member Cynthia Lawson is one of the artists in Shot at Giacobetti Paul Gallery.  Below is an image of her work in the exhibition. SHOT November 3 - 29, 2009 the giacobetti paul gallery 111 front street, #220, dumbo, brooklyn, nyc giacobettipaul.com director,  Stephen Paul 917 ...Read More

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Robo-Improvisation Arena

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Director of the Foundation Program John Roach and Artist Käthe Wenzel recently closed their exhibition Robo-Improvisation Arena with a very successful childrens event. The exhibition also included two performances featuring a host of musicians, some of them from Parsons: Paul Corio ...Read More

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