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.
Veu: Viewing the World in Partial Color
Veu explores color perception through a community-driven, open-source image dataset, highlighting the challenges of color vision deficiencies. Users document their surroundings with an app that simulates color vision diversity, contributing to a global color palette. This collective effort challenges conventional norms, fostering inclusive design and visual diversity. Designer: Zai Thakoor RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Dial-A-Park
Dial-A-Park is an initiative facilitating dialogue between New Yorkers and their public parks. Through an interactive platform, participants overcome phone phobia by leaving candid voicemails or text messages about their park experiences. Over 50 unique perspectives have been collected, resulting in audio collages, word clouds, and mapped insights. Emphasizing accessibility and inclusivity, Dial-A-Park fosters community engagement, advocating for responsive park management and amplifying diverse voices for inclusive public spaces in New York City. Designers: Kritchaporn Kulrattanarak Pattra Sikkamann Abbey Manliclic Jaime Stock Anupama Krishnan RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Painfully Periodic
Painfully Periodic is a website that invites menstruating people to visualize and describe their menstrual pain through engaging poll interfaces. Answers are anonymously aggregated and transformed into interactive visualizations. Over time, this platform aims to facilitate the menstruating community to develop a picture of the large variability of the experience, introspect on undue normalization or under-reporting, and co-create a digital resource and language to talk about it. Designer: Reshma Thomas RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’24 EXHIBITION
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Microsoft 2024
Style Without Boundaries Our project addresses the challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in finding stylish, well-fitting, and affordable clothing options. We conducted thorough secondary research, user interviews, and collaborative design sessions with organizations like Open Style Lab, Tilting the Lens, and Parsons to gain key insights and validate our concept. We uncovered two core challenges: (i) difficulties in locating suitable clothing due to inadequate product descriptions and inaccessible store layouts/user interfaces, and (ii) limited stylish clothing choices stemming from a lack of detailed body measurements, materials information, and successful use cases by brands. To provide users with greater choice…
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Public Policy Lab 2024
Watershed: A Wellbeing Quality Index (WQI) Tracker How might verbal and visual signals become indicators of well-being? With the heightened exposure to doom-scrolling, there is an increase in the generation of neurotoxic noise. However, as we move forward to 2039, there is an increased desire to cancel generated noise, and a longing for detoxification. In this project, we reinterpret and reframe noise from the form of verbal and visual signals not as a cause of addiction but as an indicator of our youth’s well-being. Here, we integrate the power of language as a biometric tool in proactively safe-guarding mental health…
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Addapta 2024
Organizations operate in an environment of rapid change. Today’s business challenges will look very different tomorrow. To address disruptions, organizations need teams and people that are adaptable. When it comes to bringing new skills into teams, hiring and developing for adaptability (the human abilities to learn, think, and collaborate) means that when new business problems inevitably emerge and new technology needs integration to your workflow, your teams have developed to adapt from Day 1. Addapta builds resilience and adaptability through development of human skills as a way to future-proof teams and organizations. We are a suite of digital tools that…
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OjaLáb 2024
OjaLab is a lab empowering Latin-owned brands and local boutiques to shape the future of global retail by fostering strong relationships between responsible makers and those connecting them with consumers. We work with brands in fashion, lifestyle, accessories and home decor and create real business partnerships with boutiques in emerging cities in the US. Designers Camila Ordonez
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Bridge Studio 2024
A sustainable textile manufacturing company that leverages R&D to turn crop waste into valuable products. Concept: Development, manufacturing and market textiles made from crop waste (70-80%) and cotton and/or polymer reinforcement (20-30%). Studio Instructors Sasha Charlemagne Designers Mh Talha, Jacky Marquardt
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Saathi 2024
Saathi is a digital companion and a platform designed to revolutionize senior care and learning by seamlessly integrating video-sharing features. Saathi enables caregivers to provide enhanced support to seniors, creating enriching and interactive learning environments. Its focus on inter-generational care goes beyond traditional approaches, fostering meaningful connections between different age groups. It empowers seniors by promoting technological autonomy, allowing them to navigate and utilize digital tools with confidence and ease. This holistic approach to caregiving and technology integration sets Saathi apart as a pioneering solution in the realm of senior support and education in India. Studio Instructors Sasha Charlemagne Designers…
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Zero CDW 2024
Zero CDW aims to revolutionize construction waste management by minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency to address environmental challenges in the industry. Through extensive research and strategic development, we identified an opportunity to optimize waste management processes comprehensively in the construction industry. Our main innovation lies in offering a holistic approach to waste reduction, including waste management consulting, a reuse ideation hub, a marketplace for reusable materials, educational resources, and clean building certification. The purpose of our project is clear: to promote sustainability and reduce the environmental impact of construction activities. Successfully implementing our solution would lead to several positive impacts….
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