Global networks and technological innovations are transforming the world. To adapt to these changes, designers need to be responsive, agile, versatile, and knowledgeable problem solvers. The Parsons BFA in Integrated Design is an inquiry based and student driven program, providing students with the knowledge and the skills to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Participants in the program are social, cultural, and ecological innovators who are passionate about economic and environmental equity.
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
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.
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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
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
This year's Kalil Fellow, is the acclaimed environmentalist David W. Orr, the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College. His career as a scholar, teacher, writer, speaker, and entrepreneur spans fields as diverse as environment and ...Read More
Urban areas around the country are rapidly implementing an increasing diversity of public space types. As people, and dollars, flow into cities, novel ecologies of plazas, squares, parks, and parklets are being implemented to meet the needs and demands of ...Read More
A rigorous, research- driven studio intended to develop student’s ability to recognize and isolate significant social challenges and issues and to then develop innovative approaches to these through the formation of a research statement, or project with a supporting work ...Read More
Waterlogged explores the history and lingering presence of buried streams in Manhattan and the relationship between water and urban landscapes. The goal is to introduce students to concepts of historic development patterns, ecology, public space design and the implications of ...Read More
The course will explore models of teaching and learning for empowerment and how skills can be traded and bartered to build, sustain and amplify communities, re-locating agency, supporting values, like respect, abundance, and response-ability. Challenging current notions of success and value, ...Read More
In this course, services will be explored within a specific territory under the notion of a place-based ecology. Services will be considered as support systems for community engagement in the active transformation of a space’s character and surroundings. The concept ...Read More
How are swap experiences designed? What furniture, social cues, online interfaces, and cultural norms facilitate swapping, barter, and exchange? Through presentations, research, and live barter workshops, students will experience, discuss, and design spaces to explore value, trust, time, and ethics ...Read More
This is a topical course that mixes analysis of urban design with the powerful techniques of digital modeling, using the text Digital Modeling for Urban Design by Brian McGrath. The goal of the course is to develop three dimensional communication ...Read More
How can you apply the design approach to identify and develop opportunities for new services systems? How could unique cultural content inspire new identities for design and service experiences, in particular in the fields of lifestyle and fashion? How can ...Read More
On the 26th and 27th October 2012, DESIS organizes Public & Collaborative Days. These two P&C days will be dedicated to the discussion of the specific theme of Design for Public Innovation and take the opportunity to formulate some critical ...Read More
Micah Spear, IDp junior, recently was interviewed by We Are NY Tech about his design and business education and his role at Playtime LLC, an agency he began in 2010 as an IDp student at Parsons. Micah writes on his ...Read More
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
This year's Stephan Weiss Lecture Series continues on October 11 with a presentation by Kate Fletcher entitled "Alternative Fashion Systems," exploring a broader range of fashion activity than is currently recognized and drawing upon examples of the ”craft of use” in her project Local Wisdom. ...Read More
LONDON, June 28, 2012 | BS Environmental Studies and BFA Integrated Design students, Natsuki Hayashi, Hannah Kramm, Juliette Lefort, Leila Mougoui, Lou Wright, and Carlos Yusitis were one of five finalist teams in the 2nd Annual EDF Sustainable Design Challenge, ...Read More
Zoe Romano will be leading a workshop on open source fashion production and branding, explaining the ideas, processes and methods behind the openwear and edufashion projects.
Zoe Romano co-founded Openwear.org, European project around collaborative fashion, open design and open-source branding. Since ...Read More
This year's Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture Series begins on October 4 with a presentation by Zoe Romano entitled "From Open Source Branding to Collaborative Clothing." The lecture will provide an introduction to the origins of the idea of open-source branding, and how ...Read More
On June 28, a Parsons student team was awarded a 2012 EDF Sustainable Design Award for their concept, 'WeSwarm'. The judges were particularly interested in how the students had developed their concept within a vision for sustainable transport in 2050 ...Read More
In the Spring 2012, IDC Networks:The Gift course, students created a textile library to share across the schools and departments at Parsons. The Gift Library contains textiles made from natural materials that are sourced from local fiber cooperatives and farms. ...Read More
As part of the annual Parsons Festival, The School of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design is pleased to announce Coloring Fashion: Natural and Synthetic Dyeing in Textiles Today. This one day seminar features international experts and discussions ...Read More
The money-based global economy is failing. The credit crunch undermined capitalism's ability to ensure rising incomes and prosperity while market-led attempts to combat climate change are fought tooth and nail by business as environmental crises continue. We need to combat ...Read More
Duncan Tonatiuh, illustrator of "Diego Rivera: His World and Ours," and Guadalupe Garcia McCall, author of "Under the Mesquite," are the 2012 winners of the Pura Belpre Illustrator Award and Author Award, honoring Latino authors and illustrators whose work best ...Read More
November 4th | Work from seventy seven students from the seven divisions of The New School forms the basis for this documentary of the University Lecture Course Cinemetrics: Change Detection and Agency. Students worked in teams filming the learning spaces ...Read More
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
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
