Our Partners
Bringing together design thinking, management, and applied social sciences, the graduate program in Strategic Design and Management at Parsons responds to the need for businesses and organizations across sectors to address complex 21st-century economic, environmental, and social challenges. Partnering with internationally renowned Parsons School of Design and its students is a coveted opportunity for external partners with a heightened relevance for our future. The MS SDM Program offers a diverse range of robust engagement opportunities to leverage our talented and diverse pool of design strategists ready and able to engage with you.
In our studio courses, both first and second-year students of the Strategic Design and Management Master of Science work in groups to develop solutions to a client challenge. Visit these links to learn more about our partnerships: About Our Partnerships and FAQs.
Carelab – Visiblize-ing Care Festival
Participate in the Visibilize-ing Care Festival The Visibilize-ing Care Festival, organized by the Parsons CareLab, will be a multimedia, multidisciplinary festival that will kick-off in Fall 2025. Students, faculty, alumni and staff are invited to showcase projects that creatively and critically explore all forms of care – between individuals, within communities, families and organizations, in cities, across the world, in relationship to our environment, and with ourselves. Attend Information Session: Wednesday, April 30th at 10am – 11am EDT. Link: Zoom Meeting | Password: 354360 RSVP here, if you would like to attend and/or be informed when the application is open in Fall 2025. Learn more about the Parsons Carelab here.
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Parsons Festival 2025: Narwhal Tank Impact Ventures Showcase
Join Parsons School of Design’s Entrepreneurs Lab, in partnership with The Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative, for the first-ever Narwhal Tank, a unique venture pitching event designed to showcase The New School’s most impactful student and alumni ventures from across our ecosystem that are addressing pressing social and environmental challenges. Developed to create more just and verdant societies, come to support our budding entrepreneurs, give audience feedback, and help vote on the awardees “most likely to create impact.” ORGANIZERS: Parsons ELab: Founded in 2014, Parsons Entrepreneurial Lab is a design-led research lab dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship. Nurtured within the School of Design…
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Parsons ELab’s longitudinal study “Closing The Gender Gap in Funding” Workshop
Friday Jan 17, the Parsons ELab’s hosted a longitudinal study workshop, “Closing The Gender Gap in Funding,” focused on identifying and addressing the systemic barriers female founders face. Female-identifying founders receive under 3% of all the funding available in the U.S. For Black, Brown, and Latina, it drops even lower. This flies in the face of all the data that shows investing in women creates better returns with less risk and lifts whole communities. This isn’t a zero-sum game or less for some and more for others, but a win/win when we invest in women. Working with stakeholders on imagining…
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Networking Thursday – ThinkPlace & Globant
Network Thursday is an opportunity to learn about the work of potential employers working in the strategic design field. Don’t forget to sign up for our November 17th Networking Event with Globant (12-1pm) and ThinkPlace (1-2pm). Calendar holds will be sent once you register for a session.
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Alumni Engagement: Networking Thursdays
Hey MS SDM Alumni Network! We need your help to keep on building our community. Interested in providing your company an opportunity to meet with groups of strategic design students and talk broadly about your company? Participate in one or more info sessions through our Networking Thursdays. The Fall Semester 2022 dates for our Net.WORK. | Networking Thursday virtual events will be: October 13th, October 27th, November 17th and December 1st. Not currently hiring? No problem. Networking Thursday info sessions connect you to current MS SDM students regardless of current openings. If you want to participate…
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2022 MS Strategic Design & Management Spring Exhibition
The 2022 MS Strategic Design & Management Spring Exhibition is live. You can view the exhibition page here. You can also view current and past IS1 projects and IS2 projects through our blog. The Spring Exhibition features the projects of students from Integrated Studio 1 and Integrated Studio 2.
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Networking Thursdays: Session with Hodge, Bayer, and Northwell
Open to all MS SDM students. Networking Thursdays is an excellent opportunity for students and employers in the strategic design world and beyond to connect meaningfully in a virtual space. Join the April 7th info sessions with Hodge, Bayer, and Northwell. Thursday, April 7 from 12-2 pm EST Available on the MS SDM Calendar
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Networking Thursdays: Info Sessions with ThinkPlace and Hodge
Open to all MS SDM students. Networking Thursdays is an excellent opportunity for students and employers in the strategic design world and beyond to connect meaningfully in a virtual space. Join the March 3rd info sessions with ThinkPlace and Hodge. Thursday, March 3 from 12-2pm EST Available on the MS SDM Calendar
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About our Partners
Bringing together design thinking, management, and applied social sciences, the graduate program in Strategic Design and Management at Parsons responds to the need for businesses and organizations across sectors to address complex 21st-century economic, environmental, and social challenges. Partnering with internationally renowned Parsons School of Design and its students is a coveted opportunity for external partners with a heightened relevance for our future. The MS SDM Program offers a diverse range of robust engagement opportunities to leverage our talented and diverse pool of design strategists ready and able to engage with you. Engagement opportunities include: Project Collaboration | Partner with us…
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FAQs
How long is the Integrative Studio 1 engagement? Engagements are based on the classroom scenario and average one fifteen-week semester every Spring, from late January through mid May. The timeframe for customized engagements will be determined on a case-by-case basis. How many times do we have to meet with students? At a minimum, we require that you meet at the beginning of the semester to introduce the challenge (that you have pre-determined with our faculty), in the middle of the semester to review their initial work, and at the end of the semester for the final presentation. Each engagement…
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