The School of Design Strategies is an experimental educational environment configured to advance innovative approaches to design and business education in the evolving context of cities, services, and ecosystems. Our students and faculty explore designing as core capability and design as strategic asset in the sustainable practices of individuals, groups, communities, and organizations alike.
Join us on Thursday, February 21st 6-8:30pm
@ DESIS Parsons -- 6E 16th Street, 12th Floor Room 1203B
for a DESIS/SDN workshop with Izac Ross on using Service Blueprints.
Service blueprints are a key tool for designers to understand existing service systems and ...Read More
The DREAM:IN Project, co-created by Carlos Teixeira and Sonia Manchanda in India, has been selected by Metropolis Magazine as one of the 6 Game Changers 2013. DREAM:IN is a design-driven open innovation system and global network of creative leaders, visionaries, ...Read More
Opening: 4:00-6:30 pm, December 18, 2012
Location: Cuchifritos Gallery, Essex Street Market, 120 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
The exhibition will be open 12-6 pm on December 18-26, 2012 (closed on 12/24-25)
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The exhibition Elastic Ground presents alternatives to standard commercial ideas for the ...Read More
Lecture Series - Fall 12 - Part 2: Why?
In this panel discussion, we will explore the question of why services need to be designed and examine the difference between bottom up and top down approaches in delivering services in New ...Read More
Sixteen works by Parsons students in the first year Laboratory class have been installed in the Fourth Floor Sky Bridge Gallery as part of an ongoing trans-disciplinary collaboration between students in Parsons, The New School for Drama and the larger ...Read More
March 27, 2012 | The Urban Design BS Program, and Art in Odd Places invites the New School Community to propose projects for its first annual installment of Sidewalk in New York City taking place on May 11th, 12th and 13th, ...Read More
November 4th | Work from seventy seven students from the seven divisions of The New School forms the basis for this documentary of the University Lecture Course Cinemetrics: Change Detection and Agency. Students worked in teams filming the learning spaces ...Read More
October 27th | The Drawing Lab will transform Aronson Gallery into a three-dimensional data mining and drawing apparatus. The installation accumulates works made by the public: free-hand drawing, photo and video, spatial diagramming and measurement, textual performance and language play...which ...Read More
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) and ARTPORT_making waves invite you to respond to this question.
Selected work, chosen by a jury, will be screened in a compilation on the SJDC plasma screens at 2 W. 13 Street from November ...Read More
Location: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue |
To celebrate the launch of three new programs in urban design and urbanism at Parsons, and the separate publication of a seminal new book, ...Read More
URBAN@PARSONS PRESENTS:
Friday December 17, 12:00 - 3:00 PM
URBANISMS OF INCLUSION: ATLANTIS TRANSATLANTIC EDUCATION PROGRAM
Pecha-kucha presentations followed by a panel discussion with:
Teddy Cruz, Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon, Glenn Smith, Brian McGrath, Miodrag Mitrasinovic
Glass corner 25 E. 13th Street, 2nd floor
Thursday ...Read More
On Saturday Jeff Warren, the founder of grassrootsmapping.org led a balloon and kite aerial mapping workshop for the students of Street Life and Mapping the City. Grassroots Mapping has completed a range of participatory mapping projects ...Read More
A team of Parsons Foundation students in Lab: Get Involved has partnered with the Thompkins Square branch of the New York Public Library and created the Monster Reading Rally. This event is designed to promote literacy in ...Read More
The exhibition Palimpsest highlights the interdisciplinary work created in the first year Foundation Program at Parsons the New School for Design. The word, palimpsest, embodies an idea of multiple iterations within the same frame and many authors of the same project. ...Read More
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Jung (Flora) Lee, Meghann Stephenson, Jeesu Kim were selected as prize winners from a fantastic array of enties in this year's Foundation sketchbook competition and exhibition.
Congratulations! Read More
Please join us this Friday, November 13th from 6 - 7:30pm in the Northeast corner of the Sheila Johnson Design Center for an Artist's Reception with Michael DiPietro (Integrated Design Class of 2010), whose work "Cartes de Visite" was installed ...Read More
Allan Wexler at Ronald Feldman Gallery
Overlook
September 10- October 24, 2009
The Ronald Feldman Gallery will exhibit works from the last five years by Allan Wexler whose thirty-year career resists easy classification. One of a group of artists who began to question ...Read More
From the 4th of September until the 14th of September, Pascale Gatzen, Sarah Stolwijk and students of IDC Fashion will be collaborating with Painted, a Dutch fashion collective, 3 generations of Native American bead masters and NY based lace makers, ...Read More
Rachael's thesis, examined the impact of media on young early teen girls (aka Tweens). The thesis was titles 'Mediabites: An Interactive System and Educational Tool' (left - click to enlarge) aimed to teach young girls to develop a critical stance ...Read More
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Here's an event in a new gallery space I've started attached to my studio.
The opening is in Friday 11, 5-8pm
You are invited to the opening reception of Matt Freedman's "Twin Twin III, Artists Edition" ...Read More
The TV show LatiNation will be broadcasting a segment on our project in Guatemala this coming Sunday. They interviewed Cynthia Lawson, one of the faculty, last Fall, and have edited that with footage from last summer. The show ...Read More
A team of faculty and students from Parsons (IDC and Fashion Marketing), Milano, and the graduate program in International Affairs from The New School have returned to Guatemala to continue the work started last year, with the goal of promoting ...Read More
So, what is it like outside of Foundation? What is the student experience in the programs offered in the BFA degree? The project "Seeing the Future" in the Laboratory class of John Roach and Julia Gorton (Cluster8) asks students to ...Read More
In April of 2009 Todd Lambrix and his Foundation Two Dimensional Integrated Studio class worked in conjunction with Forbidden Planet on a Graphic Novel project. This was a 5 week project for a freshman class at Parsons. These students ...Read More
Posted by Foundation 3D Studio Instructor Debby Lee Cohen,
Students from my 3D Studio, Body in Time class constructed a sculpture made from about one thousand used Styrofoam* (polystyrene) trays. The dirty compartmentalized trays were collected (and washed) from NYC Department ...Read More
Here's a student blog called Nature vs. Nurture that follows a specific project for Three Dimensional Design - The Body in Time
"The device that I needed to build had to sustain life. With the Classic Maya definition of time in ...Read More
The First Aid Kit was designed, produced, and assembled by the assiduous Laboratory Class, Cluster 8. This survival kit, which includes a menagerie of media [a book, a poster, website, buttons, videos, and canvas tote bags], was ...Read More