Students
Students come to the Parsons MS SDM program from all over the world. Their experience combines studios, seminars, networking, events, symposia, and more. This page will inform you about student projects like First Year Studio and Second Year Studio, student resources, and other opportunities.
MS SDM Strategic Design Symposium
Capstone Presentations 2024 We invite you to the MS SDM 2024 Capstone Symposium which will be held during the weeks of April 29th and May 6th. At the Symposium, graduating students will share their capstone studio presentations with the greater community for knowledge sharing, networking, dialogue, reflection, and celebration. The Parsons Graduate program in Strategic Design and Management brings together design thinking, innovation management, and applied social sciences responds to the need for businesses and organizations to address complex 21st-century economic, environmental, and social challenges. Methods from studio practice such as ideation, ethnographic research, prototyping, and service design are used…
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Amazon 2023
Alexa Together Care Coordination Amazon recognizes the challenges of ageing in place and the increasing responsibilities falling on families and individuals to care for their older loved ones. Research shows that caregivers often face burnout, highlighting the need for innovative solutions. In response, Amazon introduced Alexa Together, a premium remote caregiving service feature. While initially targeting care recipients living alone, we identified an emerging living configuration that could benefit from collaborative caregiving. By promoting shared responsibilities, caregivers in multi-generational families can care for themselves while delivering better care to the care recipient. With 24/7 urgent response and remote assistance, Amazon…
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Weathering Weather: An Embodied Co-Speculative Approach to Exploring Weather
Weathering Weather is an explorative study that looks at unveiling what is obscured when using numeric weather data. It does this by breaking down our understanding of weather, while simultaneously bringing attention to how we’re all weathering – enduring, living, and changing with weather. It unpacks the many relationships we have with weather, climate, and climate change and proposes alternative ways in which we may understand weather in our everyday lives. Designers Gaurika Singhal RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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The Me in Me
Project Abstract or Summary The Me in Me is a VR meditative journey exploring different bodily sensations. We invite the audience to examine inwards as if the mind is floating through different body parts to reimagine those internal sensations. We choreographed dances and designed five unique abstract environments to compose immersive visual metaphors to represent the nuanced sensations and rhythms in the body. The body and the mind are integral to our sense of presence. By channeling movements and internal sensations, we hope the VR meditative journey can be a creative tool to enhance body awareness in beginner-level meditation and…
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Redefined Coms
Redefined-coms explores the possibility of radically redefining personal telecommunication devices to resonate with alternative notions of identity. Mobile telecommunications systems use the unchanging ‘international mobile subscriber identity,’ that bakes in an individualistic notion of identity within this fundamental identifier. Utilizing redefinition design within a counterfactual 1970’s timeline, the project presents three alternative 1970s mobile phones that resonate with social theory, place theory and bundle theory notions of identity. Designers Dr Austin Houldsworth Dipo Olaosun RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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Cohesion: Onboarding innovation to improve knowledge sharing in the workplace 2023
Efficient knowledge sharing has been one of the toughest challenges Organizations face constantly. The scope for organizational development through shared knowledge is enormous. This sharing of knowledge will need to happen non-stop and across different levels and at various points of engagement. With our research, we were able to identify the first step where this sharing starts; Employee Onboarding. Surprisingly only 12% of the employees are satisfied with their experience. And there is a 45% chance of new employees dropping out in the first 3 months if they don’t feel valued, costing huge expenses for the company. To avoid this…
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CURREN-C
If global warming continues at the current rate of 0.18 °C per decade, it will lead to irreversible natural catastrophes that disproportionately affect climate-vulnerable ecosystems by 2050. According to the IPCCC, to limit global temperature rise to under 1.5°C, global greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions must be reduced by 43% by 2030[1]. Studies prove that two-thirds of the global GHG emissions are linked to household consumption[2], and we believe it is essential to empower individuals, especially in developed countries, to reinvent their lifestyle choices to reduce global emissions. As strategic designers, we identified an opportunity to drive conscious lifestyle changes in individuals…
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Good Interventions ’23: An Economic And Strategic Design Exhibition
About Good Interventions ’23 Koray Caliskan and Ishaanee Pandey Curators (Curatorial Team and the Jury of Good Interventions’23: Dr Barbara Adams, Noopur Ambre, Simone Calbi, Dr Koray Caliskan, Joana Chang, Angelica Cuevas, Cas Esteve, Samaksh Jain, Ishaanee Pandey, Anwesha Sengupta, Elis Shin, Claire Quong, and Jonathan Yubi Gomez.) What does the notion of ‘making to think’ encapsulate? How can design serve as a means of comprehending our world? In which ways can we articulate or reimagine our environments with design interventions? The Good Interventions Exhibition’23, building upon the foundations of the inaugural competition and exhibition in 2022 amalgamates the strengths…
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Who Cares? A Project About Women’s Unpaid Care Work
The problem she challenges with this project is that unpaid care work is taken for granted as a woman’s role — easy, unskilled and a product of emotional abstraction. She made an exhibition to name it, describe it, enhance its complexity, and show its strength using data. With this exhibition her goals are to make unpaid care work a topic of debate and define it as an essential work in our society. Designer Alicia Manuela Ospina-Pedraza RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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The Environmental Citizen’s Playbook
The climate is changing, but whilst the environmental movement grows, so does concern for wellbeing. To enable lasting engagement we must find new, more sensitive ways to address these critical topics. The Environmental Citizen’s Playbook explores the potential of playfulness and joy within environmentalism, for building resilience and healing within conscious communities. Through imagination, escapism, roleplay and more, the project co-creates speculative ideas to find playfulness in everyday environmental action. Designer Savannah Vize RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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