Navigating Change: Museums, Nonprofits, and the Future of Cultural Institutions
On February 27, 2025, Jennifer Rittner facilitated a discussion with Dr Sharon Counts and Sruthi Sadhujan on how nonprofits and cultural institutions navigate change while maintaining their core mission and values. Sruthi Sadhujan, a brand strategist for nonprofits, shared her journey into organizational change, emphasizing that branding in the nonprofit space extends beyond logos and taglines—it’s a transformative process that affects culture, power dynamics, and institutional identity. She introduced a four-part framework for evaluating change: Treasures – Legacy practices and traditions that hold enduring value and should be preserved. Baggage – Outdated ways of thinking or operating that no…
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Alumni Webinar – Tips for a successful Job search
In our recent webinar with Parsons SDM alumni Lucia Jaramillo, Divya Harpalani, and Anamika Gopi, we delved into effective strategies for navigating a successful job search. Each alumnus shared their unique journey, offering insights into what helped them secure their current roles and the lessons they learned along the way. We discussed a range of platforms that students can utilize to boost their job search efforts, emphasizing the critical role of networking and providing alternative strategies for those who find traditional networking daunting. The session also featured valuable advice tailored to international students, along with tips on building a standout…
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Alumni Led – Design Spark Workshop Series
Alumni Led – Design Spark Workshop Series The recent Design Spark Workshop Series was a complete success— an innovative, action-oriented workshop designed to ignite creativity and empower students with practical skills to thrive in the fast-paced, resource-constrained environments that characterize the world of design. This three-part series provided an incredible learning experience, and we are incredibly grateful for the dedication of our presenters, Dhairya Sathvara and Anwesha Sengupta, who brought their expertise and passion to make this event so impactful. The Design Spark Workshop Series was designed for students eager to go beyond the theoretical aspects of design and dive…
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Management and Social Justice Conference 2025
‘Designing the Future: Leveraging Technology for 1.5°C Lifestyles’ is a workshop by Raz Godelink that will addresses the urgent need for transformative shifts in lifestyles, particularly in the Global North, to limit global warming to 1.5°C. It explores how companies can harness technology-driven innovation and sustainable design to facilitate this transition. Drawing on Raz Godelnik’s Business-Driven 1.5°C Lifestyles Framework (BD1.5LF), participants will work on industry-specific scenarios to tackle real-world challenges, with a focus on the Innovation and Sustainable Design opportunity area. The session will emphasize the importance of balancing radical thinking with innovation and demonstrate how businesses can redesign their…
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Spring 2025 Portfolio Masterclass and Alumni Review Session
Reflections on the Spring 2025 Portfolio Masterclass and Alumni Review Sessions We are thrilled to share that the Spring 2025 Portfolio Masterclass and Alumni Review Sessions were a success! The sessions were designed to provide the MS SDM students with invaluable tools and guidance to enhance their professional portfolios and advance their careers. Thanks to the incredible dedication and expertise of our alumni, the event exceeded expectations and proved to be an enriching experience for all involved. A Masterclass on Crafting an Effective Portfolio The Portfolio Masterclass, led by the talented Paul Benson, took place on February 6th. In this…
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Divya Harpalani, Class of 2022
Divya Harpalani | Product Manager B&H New York I’m a product manager focused on creating customer centric digital shopping experiences to make sure our customers has a seamless shopping journey. Creating an impact at a global user advocacy level with a focus on innovation is what drives me and pushes me to contribute in a culture full of cross collaboration, growth and opportunities. What three things do you feel make the MS SDM program special? 1. The environment of cross collaboration 2. Understanding and knowing problem solving skills 3.Interaction and engagement with professors who come from a distinguished and notable set…
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Juliette Wang, Class of 2022
Juliette Wang | User Experience Designer Google “I’m Juliette Wang, a strategic and interaction designer with a global perspective. Born in Taiwan and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, I developed a passion for art, design, and exploring cultures. I earned my BFA in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 and later completed my Master’s at Parsons in 2022. My career has taken me from design agencies such as Instrument—where I worked with clients including Google, YouTube, and Niantic—to my current role at Google, creating the next generation of shopping experiences on Search….
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Good Interventions ’25 – Open Call
Good Interventions is an annual exhibition of intangible design projects that address the pressing issues of our time by bringing together the power of design and social sciences. For its fourth edition, fifteen projects will be selected to be exhibited. The School of Design Strategies organizes the program, which will take place in its permanent exhibition as a portal in the Platform of Design Strategies. Social sciences think with concepts. But can we think by making? Design thinks with things. But can we design with concepts? In what ways can science be used as a tool to make sense of…
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Design & UX research Guest Lecture
We’re thrilled to share that our guest lecture with Jennifer M. Brennan and Alex Chao, Google’s leading UX Researchers, was a great success! During the session, MS SDM students had the opportunity to explore the world of Design and UX Research, gaining valuable insights into how these concepts are applied in the tech industry. The event provided a fantastic opportunity to deepen their understanding of the research field, with many participants benefiting from the expert advice and answers to their questions. A big thank you to everyone who joined us – it was truly an inspiring and enriching experience!
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Creating Connections MS SDM Fall 2024 Symposium
The first annual MS Strategic Design & Management Fall 2024 Symposium is coming up on November 22, at 1opm at The New School. This symposium will explore how Strategic Designers create connections within systems, among stakeholders, to new opportunities, in complex ecosystems, in communities, and around the world. Through panel discussions, participatory workshops, Pecha Kucha-style presentations, posters, and product demos, students will share project work and emergent discourses that serve to inform practices in strategic design. FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND PROGRAMING INFORMATION
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