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Fluffy Mane and All

| Student News

   Globalization is a funny thing. The last three years that I spent in Peace Corps Lesotho highlighted globalization’s ability to seemingly increase random series…

+5 Renegade Points: Designing Violence in Video Games

| Student News

I’ve bludgeoned a few hookers in my day. I’ve been romantically involved with a 106 year old hermaphrodite, stabbed a Pope, poisoned government officials, run…

Graduate School in the Age of Google Drive: The Effects of Open Source and Cloud Computing on our Projects

| Student News

  If you’ve taken classes at a university during the last few years, you can probably picture this familiar scene: It’s midnight the night before…

First Annual Student Faculty TransPong Tournament!

| Faculty News

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…

Embracing the Shift: Nonprofits and Designers Chart a New Direction

| Parsons

Last week I found myself at the New York Design Center for desigNYC’s Healthy Communities exhibit. I thought I knew what to expect; and a…

Why Heritage is Important to Design: and what we can learn from it.

| Student News

Our histories define us, shapes us, inspire us, and influence our motivations. But our histories are not definitive of our futures; they are just the…

TransDesign Continues to Set a High Bar at FastCo.’s Innovation By Design Awards

| Student News

For the second year running, two Parsons Transdisciplinary Design students are finalists in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design awards. Last year, Howard Chambers (’12) and…

The Design All Around Us

| Parsons

Perhaps it’s too soon, or too shocking. Some may even say that it’s in bad taste. So before I begin, let me say that there…

Eco Not Ego: De-Centering the Human in Design

| Parsons

What would Water have to say were she at the design table? When we make plans to lay more impermeable concrete for a new street,…

Designing to Combat Sexual Violence

| Parsons

When we spoke about Julian Dibbell’s article “A Rape in Cyberspace: How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens…