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 Integrative Design Studio-1 and Integrative Design Studio-2, student resources, and other opportunities.
Good Interventions ’22: An Economic And Strategic Design Exhibition
About Good Interventions ’22 Koray Caliskan What does it mean to make to think? In what ways can design be used as a tool to make sense of the world? How can we describe or reimage our worlds by using design interventions? Good Interventions Exhibition aims at addressing these questions by bringing together the powers of design and social sciences to address questions of power. Social sciences think with concepts. They are intangible, descriptive, relational. Regardless of their methodological, ontological and epistemological assumptions and preferences, social scientists observe and describe, perhaps use visualization a bit, then move on. What…
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Financeville: Experience Finance from the Vantage Point of a Worker
This game is an artistic depiction that exaggerates the conditions and predispositions of informal workers in order to strike an emotional response from the players. By imagining financial systems as structures, it also provides a macro view of our institutions and how they fall short in protecting the most vulnerable. Further, by identifying how the informal workers manage their finances and highlight the information asymmetry existing in the society, this project opens the conversation on strategies to incentivise formalisation. Sushita Narayan Designer Sushmita Narayan is a strategic designer and artist based in New York City. Narayan’s background is in…
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Macrame Accounting: History of Book Keeping with Ropes
Is modernity including or displacing other forms of knowledge? The purpose of this design project is to use the evolution of accounting systems to reflect on the role of technology, not only as a network but as an actor with its own agency, constantly shaping the way we work and relate. Joana Chang Designer Joana Chang is a M.S. Strategic Design and Management candidate at Parsons. With a B.S. in Clinical Psychology and many years of experience in HR and recruitment departments, she is interested in designing organizational cultures of purpose and belonging. She is passionate about art as a…
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Behold: The Value Universe after Self-Interest
In the pursuit of material aspirations, we often forget to acknowledge the little things that make life worth living. Behold is a reflective game that encourages people to introspect on their choices, fosters awareness about the intangibles they sacrifice and transact, and catalyzes dialogue about what is truly worthwhile to them. Radhika Dilip Kale Designer Radhika Dilip Kale is a Strategic Designer operating at the intersection of behavioral sciences, design, and business. She brings together insights, strategy, and enablement to craft meaningful, valuable, and impactful solutions. She works with startups and enterprises across sectors to envision, build, scale, and transform…
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Taconomization: Taquerias for Sustainable Banking
How can taquerias become relevant actors in Sustainability and Banking? In Mexico, there are more than 4.8 million informal businesses, this sector being the leading employer in the entire country and responsible for 23% of GDP. The Challenge? To incorporate these businesses into the financial and social security system, offering a new business model that is disruptive, sustainable, and replicable. Due to a lack of knowledge, the owners of these businesses never manage to grow their businesses or take them to the next level. Taquerias are becoming obsolete to consumers as they are becoming aware of their consumption habits at…
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Pause a Bit: Digital Labor and Attention Economy
Pay attention!- is one of the word combinations we hear frequently; however, not many people think about the actual meaning. We have access to incalculable information, and everyone is fighting for our attention. The attention economy has supported the formation of internet celebrities, who can expose themselves and share their ideas with wider audiences, which further fostered the term digital labor. Natia Gogotidze Designer Madhura Redij Curator RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTION ’22 EXHIBITION
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Four Students Awarded James Rozanski Memorial Scholarships
Four students from the MS Strategic Design and Management class of 2023 have been awarded a James Rozanski Memorial Scholarship. Scholarship recipients are Christiana Kayode, Madhura Redij, Dhairya Sathvara, and Tamar Sulakvelidze. The award will be applied towards their tuition and fees associated with their degree requirements in the coming academic year. The James Rozanski Memorial Scholarships were established by James’s family in his honor. About James Rozanski James Raymond Rozanski was a graduate of the MS-SDM and part-time faculty in the BBA Strategic Design and Management program at Parsons. He passed away from an unfortunate accident in May 2021….
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Job Opportunity: Graduate Student Assistant, Parsons Executive Education
Parsons Executive Education is seeking two entrepreneurial students for Summer 2022 and onwards to support the team in its day-to-day operations. We encourage any interested graduate student to apply. The two students will work together in a team under the leadership of Mariana Amatullo, Vice Provost for Global Executive Education and Online Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management. Apply here: https://careers.newschool.edu/postings/21549
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Women Thread: Making the Economy See Shared Work
Care work is largely invisible in mainstream economics because it is done primarily by women, at home, for no wages. To recognize the critical care work of women everywhere and its fundamental role in the functioning of society, we set out to design an artifact that visually represents economic models of care work of the past and propose alternatives for the future. Elis Shin Designer Elis Shin is a curator and strategist dedicated to empowering communities to learn how cities are shaped. She has almost a decade of experience working with arts nonprofits and designing immersive experiences that make the…
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Jenga Economies: See How Markets Will Collapse Next Time
The game Jenga was designed by Leslie Scott in 1970s. As an interactive representation of how I see economies – interdependent, designed in collaboration, fragile, and ever-evolving, this piece of Jenga captures elements that have affected the Ghanese economy from the 1950s. I think economies are not tightly organized systems, have different undertakings, and only some cluster around market transactions, just like Gibson and Graham mentioned. Play a game of Jenga Economies – who knows which slab will topple down the economy today – another pandemic, an astroid, or just the rise of the dinosaurs?! High-risks, fragility, and a lot…
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