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.
Haven – 2025
Not Everything Should Be in the Cloud: Rethinking AI for Private Thought Studio Instructor Koray Caliskan Designers Aaron Barboza
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Creator Connect – 2025
Creator Connect is a professional platform that helps creators and brands build stronger partnerships through personalized matchmaking. It offers tools for networking, portfolio showcasing, clear communication, and resource sharing to streamline collaboration. By focusing on better alignment between creators and brands, Creator Connect aims to reduce friction, foster creativity, and empower smaller creators to grow and thrive. Studio Instructor Koray Caliskan Designers Isaly Sangaphunchai
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ShareEase – Share cost, not comfort – 2025
ShareEase is a mobile-first platform that helps users find trusted, like-minded people to share the cost of everyday services—from rent and rides to streaming subscriptions and gym memberships. Designed for students, solo dwellers, and young professionals, ShareEase uses accurate filtered matching, identity verification, custom agreements, and automated payments to simplify safe cost-sharing with strangers. Whether you’re offering a service you already use or looking to join one, ShareEase turns financial responsibility into a collaborative, affordable experience. It’s cost-sharing that’s intentional, secure, and built for real life. Studio Instructor Koray Caliskan Designers Zeel Shukla
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dataMKT – 2025
DataMKT is a consumer-first data management platform that puts individuals in control of how their personal information is used, shared, and valued. In today’s digital economy, data is one of the most valuable assets—but users rarely benefit from the data they generate. DataMKT flips that model by allowing users to manage their data permissions, view past data transactions, and choose who can access their information. The platform offers transparency into how data is collected and shared, while enabling users to take meaningful actions—like pausing sharing, deleting data, or customizing the types of data they allow access to. Users can also…
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PolicyPilot: Bridging Regulatory Literacy in Textile EPR – 2025
PolicyPilot is a specialized digital platform addressing the growing challenge of textile waste through enhanced regulatory literacy of fashion professionals. With textile waste being the fastest-growing component entering landfills and a garbage truck equivalent of clothes discarded every second, governments worldwide are implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations to shift waste management responsibility to manufacturers. Despite 87% of fashion executives anticipating regulatory impacts on their business, 70% express limited understanding of these policies. PolicyPilot bridges this critical gap through three integrated tools: The Policy Interpreter translates complex legal language from California SB 707, France EPR Law, and Dutch EPR Regulation…
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CIRLCES – 2025
CIRCLES is a community-driven housing platform designed to make finding a home easier, safer, and more affordable by leveraging pre-existing networks. By connecting users to housing opportunities within their extended circles, CIRCLES ensures a more secure and reliable experience. At its core, CIRCLES fosters trust and connection. Instead of sifting through anonymous listings, users can browse housing offers from friends or mutual connections, creating a safer and more transparent process. Whether searching for a summer sublet, a third roommate, or someone to take over a lease, CIRCLES streamlines the process. Beyond traditional listings, CIRCLES introduces a barter system, allowing users…
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Intent – 2025
Intent is a mindful note-taking app designed to help you make sense of your inner world. In a time when our thoughts are scattered across devices, journals, and passing moments, Intent offers a space to gather, explore, and connect them with purpose. Rather than just storing information, Intent invites you to slow down and reflect. It helps you recognize patterns in your thinking, track how your ideas evolve over time, and understand the beliefs that shape your decisions. Whether it’s a passing thought, a deep question, or a moment of clarity, everything has a place. Intent is for people who…
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Ugly Catering – 2025
Ugly Catering is a sustainability-focused catering initiative that explores the intersection of food, design, and environmental impact. The project seeks to challenge conventional perceptions of beauty and waste in the food system by transforming cosmetically imperfect produce, often discarded despite being edible, into high-quality, visually compelling culinary experiences. By integrating elements of food styling, design, and storytelling, Ugly Catering aims to promote sustainable consumption practices and create behavioral change through hand-ons experience. The project emphasizes the value of surplus and “ugly” ingredients, demonstrating their potential to contribute to gourmet, aesthetically-driven dining experiences without compromising taste or quality. This work contributes…
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Green Frame: Redefining Sustainability in Film – 2025
Green Frame is a sustainability certification designed specifically for the film and media production industry. It addresses the urgent environmental impact of filmmaking by providing producers, studios, and distributors with tools to track, reduce, and report carbon emissions across the production lifecycle, from pre-production to distribution. Unlike existing frameworks, Green Frame is U.S.-based and uniquely combines environmental accountability with economic and cultural incentives. At its core, Green Frame offers a practical certification system supported by a digital platform that includes a carbon tracking tool, sustainability guidelines, and a scoring model. Productions that meet benchmark criteria receive a tiered certification and…
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Clairo – 2025
Clairo is an AI-powered audit toolkit designed for small startups to build ethical, transparent, and bias-aware hiring practices from the ground up. It guides early-stage teams through a structured hiring flow — from creating inclusive job descriptions to flagging potential algorithmic biases in decision-making. Clairo acts as a co-pilot for founders and hiring leads, combining actionable insights with a clear, human-centered interface. By integrating fairness into the core of recruitment, Clairo helps startups scale responsibly while making hiring processes more accountable, equitable, and insight-driven — because the future of work should be built on trust, not bias. Studio Instructor Juanli…
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