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.
LIBRARY: Rethinking ESG access for curious investors 2023
LIBRARY is an innovative digital tool that utilizes AI technology to consolidate and analyze Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance factors concisely and in a user-friendly manner, to catalyze meaningful impact. Research and Strategy Development: ESG, or Environmental, Social, and Governance, is gaining traction as sustainability integrates into companies and personal beliefs. With government involvement, investor interest, and conscious consumers, the ESG ecosystem has many components. However, the scattered and overwhelming information makes it challenging to stay informed. To address this, our team created LIBRARY, a platform that offers accessible and transparent information without barriers. By harnessing generative AI, LIBRARY…
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Leveraging the power of branding and messaging to influence consumers to buy and consume less tech products 2023
Our Motto: Conscientious consumer + judgement-free collaboration = individual and societal change Through our unique campaign co-creation process, we collaborate with individuals who want to engage with less-talked about and more “taboo” issues, we create campaigns that are easy to understand, fun to engage with and offer a judgment-free perspective. Our process: Identify social issues that need a bigger spotlight Create a space for artists, designers, activists, enthusiasts, etc., to collaborate Connect the right influencers and marketers with the right campaign(s) Tailor each campaign to user sensibilities and needs Identify new and innovative ways to break through “the clutter” of…
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Young Money 2023
Explorean is an immersive game-based investment platform designed for young investors. Players engage in a relatable city builder game while also having the opportunity to invest in public companies listed on the stock exchange. The game mechanics serve as a guide for investors, fostering transformative investor temperaments necessary for long-term investment towards combating climate change. Our research addresses two fundamental aspects. Firstly, we discovered that there are various barriers associated with getting started in investing, including a lack of financial literacy, overconfidence, and generational differences in money management experiences, all of which hinder confidence in investment decisions. Secondly, we identified…
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Project Njord 2023
New York consumes 80% fossil energy, contributing to climate change and community health issues and ongoing energy projects come with their own problems ranging from non-transparent financial structures to the suppression of the rights of native groups. So why don’t we produce where we consume? Currently, there are 38,000 solar installations in NYC, accounting for 6% of the 624,000 solar-viable roofs. 72% of these roofs are owned by large landlords, marginalising small landlords with better renting conditions but higher financial pressure from local laws, taxes, insurance costs, and pandemic-related income loss. Njord removes renewable energy from small landlords’ to-do lists….
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OHOM: Closed network community for mental health improvement and support 2023
We’ve identified a big need for well-being resources that are affordable, available, overall convenient, and community-oriented. We seek to invite individuals to join a collective that provides structure and tools to improve their well-being in an honest and engaging manner. It all starts with a mental health questionnaire, modernized and adapted to modern language, preventing it from being repetitive or obvious, as current questionnaires might be. After that, we sort and evaluate the individuals, and with those results, we co-design a full-day event where they can interact and share with other members who share their concerns. Since this is co-created, they…
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Fine Biology – Sustainable Fashion 2023
Fine biology focus on the fashion evolution of biological fabrics and let target user make purchases. How biological fabrics make fashion industry difference is CO2 emissions, which account for 50% emissions. 80% of global consumers think they are interested in sustainable fashion but not willing to make purchases, the top 3 what they are about biological fabrics is Style, Comfort, Quality. The existing biological fabrics and sustainable apparel can’t meet the needs of consumers and the market. Many products are not truly suitable for application in daily clothing or leather accessories. Our services include comprehensive solutions from sustainable strategy, biological fabric innovation, fashion product design,…
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Fashion Regeneration Factory 2023
With almost two-thirds of clothing castoffs headed directly to the landfill, we will see shares of the second-hand industry move towards upcycling unwearable garments. International trade agreements allow the Global North to send unwanted clothes to the Global South, causing mountains of clothes to pile up in forgotten parts of the world. The Fashion Regeneration Factory collects clothing to create personalized products to extend the textile lifecycle. Working with thrift stores, donation centers, and city waste management to collect excess clothing reduces the expense of shuttling clothes and provides a steady stream of garments at little cost. Mitigating the number…
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Fashion Issue: Learning/Action platform for conscious creatives in fashion and culture industries 2023
The fashion industry is known for the power it holds and the impact it makes in our society, culture and to the environment. The mainstream fashion publications work as propagators –playing a significant role in not just shaping the fashion industry, but also perpetuating certain core issues within it. How can fashion publications, as a creative industry, be more reflective of the socio-political and environmental zeitgeist without being superficial? And how can the masses play an active role in affecting this shift within the industry? Fashion Issue is a free participatory digital platform that functions primarily as an information hub:…
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Co-Spark: Co-creating employee growth for holistic wellbeing in the post pandemic workplace 2023
What is CoSpark? CoSpark is a platform designed to revolutionize the way organizations approach employee growth and wellbeing in the post-pandemic hybrid workplace. What is its purpose? With our research we identified a critical opportunity in addressing the dynamic and personal needs of employees during times of transition at a workplace (for eg – New hires, promotions or personal life transitions such as a birth of a child) The purpose of our project is to empower People Operations to create a positive employee experience that boosts retention, job satisfaction, and engagement. We recognized that traditional HR systems are rapidly becoming…
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Beans: Improving Trust in Hybrid Work Place Teams 2023
Our project addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by the hybrid work model. We identified that while hybrid work offers flexibility and efficiency, it falls short on effective communication and informal interactions through digital channels that are crucial for connection and belonging among employees. This lack of connection negatively impacts productivity, satisfaction, retention rates, therefore, companies lose billions annually. The main innovation we identified is the integration of micro transactions for gift sharing and thank you notes through an app called Beans. Our solution aims to facilitate interpersonal relationships in a hybrid workplace by providing employees with a platform to…
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