Transdisciplinary Design

Designing for Financial Empowerment (DFE), a cross-sector collaboration between the City of New York, Citi Community Development and the Parsons DESIS Lab , explores how service design can…

Following their departure from London’s Royal College of Art last year, Dunne and Raby finally made it to Parsons. The MFA in Transdisciplinary Design welcomed Anthony Dunne…

This past Wednesday night, a resounding victory echoed from the streets of New York City up through the vast and endless cosmos shaking the very…

The best part about being a student is perspective. Every new point of view is an opportunity to see afresh. As a student every new…

Click here for interview – Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO – WEF 2011 – Davos, Switzerland I had the wonderful opportunity to interview…

Recently in the program, our faculty made a simple statement has had a surprisingly profound effect on me: You will never know enough about a…

November 20, 2010 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Thinking about graduate school? The Transdisciplinary Design Program? The Grad School Expo & Open House at The…

A recent article the Architects’ Newspaper (here) explored a topic that we’ve been exploring through The New School’s Design and Social Science Committee’s faculty seminar entitled Infrastructure: Complexity, Risk and Design.

We kicked off the launch of the Transdisciplinary Design program with a dynamic dialogue between Anna Valtonen, Rector of Umea Institute of Design, and Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks. We’ve got the whole event for you to view.

Earlier this January 2010 the Board of Education of the State of New York accredited the MFA in Transdisciplinary Design here at Parsons The New School for Design. This is a fabulous way to start a new decade.