Lecture by Costa Constantinides . Details: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Costa Constantinides serves as the CEO for the Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens. In September 2021, Costa was appointed to the Board of Directors for the…
Lecture by Valeria Mogilevich . Details: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Valeria is a designer and educator creating visual tools and curricula that translate complicated things for laypeople. She has over seventeen years of experience working at the intersection…
Lecture by Julia Day. Details: Wednesday, April 09th, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Julia Day is a Partner and Director of the US Cities team at Gehl. Her work focuses on developing projects across design, policy and advocacy to demonstrate streets as…
Lecture by Daniel Chu . Details: Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Daniel Chu, Senior Energy Planner for New York City Environmental Justice Alliance is a geographer and urban designer with an interest in democratic built environment planning for environmental…
Lecture by Jeanne DuPont . Details: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Jeanne DuPont, Founder & Executive Director, Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability & Equity. As the founder and executive director of RISE, Jeanne DuPont has worked closely with the Rockaway…
Documentary Screening : ” The Making of Corona Plaza Queens” Details: Friday ,December 6th 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY — “The Making of Corona Plaza, Queens” documents the process of making a unique public plaza in the predominantly immigrant neighborhood of Corona,…
Abolish Rent: A dialouge with the Co-Founders of the largest Tenant Union Details: Monday,November 18th, 2024 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM (EST) Lang Cafe/ Ground Floor Eugene Lang college building 65 W 11th Street, New York, NY — Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too…
Lecture by Christian Dimmer, Associate Professor, Urban Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. Details: Wednesday,November 6th, 2024 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EST) UL105, University Center, 63 5th Ave, New York, NY. — Dr. Christian Dimmer is Associate Professor for Urban Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is a co-founder of the charitable,…
Lecture by Tiffany Khan on Removing Land from the Market. Details: Wednesday, October 09th, 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Tiffany Khan is a Harlem-based activist focused on improving housing, health outcomes. Born in Chicago, but raised in Barbados until the age of…
Lecture by Marika Dias on Evictions, Housing Courts, and the Right to Counsel. Details: Wednesday, October 30th 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Room 1108 , Parsons 2W 13th street, New York, NY. — Marika Dias is a public interest attorney who has worked in civil legal services since 2001, in a range of legal…
Lecture by Martha Kenton on Homelessness and Housing. Details: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Room 1108, Parsons, 2W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Martha Kenton serves as the Executive Director of Federal Homeless Policy at the NYC Department of Social Services. She began her career working in…
Lecture by Emily Wiedenhof, Assistant Commissioner, Public Realm Details: Wednesday, October 23th, 2024 4:30 – 6:00 PM (EST) I-Arnold Hall, Room 531 55 W 13th Street, New York, NY. — Emily Weidenhof serves as the assistant commissioner of public realm at NYC DOT working closely with community organizations throughout the five boroughs to…
Lecture by Claudia tomateo , PhD Candidate,DUSP,MIT Details: Wednesday, October 2nd 2024 5.45 PM – 6:45 PM UL105, University Centre 63 5th Ave, New York, NY. — Claudia Tomateo is a PhD student in Urban Planning at DUSP MIT. Her research focuses on the restitution of Indigenous worlds through the construction of typological frameworks…
Lecture by Pilar Finuccio, Executive Director, Center for Urban Pedagogy. Details: Wednesday, September 5th, 2024 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) UL105, University Center, 63 5th Ave, New York, NY. — Pilar Finuccio is the Executive Director of CUP. She was born and raised to a big Cuban family in Miami, where her…
Lecture by Lydia Simas and Alicia Boyd on Community Boards development and Environmental & Climate Injustice Details: Wednesday, September 25th 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Room 1108 , Parsons 2W 13th street, New York, NY. — Lydia Simas is the Solidarity Program Offcer for Brazil at Grassroots International. Since joining Grassroots in…
Lecture by Kartik Amarnath and Kali Akuno on Environmental and Climate Justice. Details: Wednesday, September 18th, 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST) Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. — Kartik Amarnath is the Policy Specialist for PUSH Buffalo and a MD and MPH candidate at SUNY Downstate Health…
Since colonialism’s outset as a modern political project, images have been central to extractivism, a racial practice that reduces parts of the Earth and its inhabitants to exploitable and marketable resources. How does this centrality operate in a context where visual culture itself has become an extractive industry with images as its raw material, many…
Engaging in exercises of collective envisioning is of utmost importance to incite the conceptualization and experimentation of radical urban futures that can transform the socially, economically, and environmentally unsustainable processes dominating our current urban landscapes. With a specific focus on envisioning the future of New York City in 10 years, NYC 2033 aims to reflect…
Documentary Film Overview A trailblazing housing organizer and her diverse working class neighbors fight Robert Moses, the real estate industry and five mayors to create the first Community Land Trust in New York City — an oasis of permanently low-income housing in the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side. In 1959 New York…
Grounding Urban Natures, lecture by Martin Avila, Professor of Design Konstfack School of Arts, Stockholm Sweden Details Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 4:00PM (EDT) Urban Studio 2 W 13th 1108
As a part of the Urban Colloquium 2 speaker series, we will host alumni from Parsons Urban Graduate Programs. Urban Colloquium 2 investigates what exactly is meant by ‘design’ and ‘designing’ in the dual context of urban ecologies and urban practices. Urban Colloquium 2 is structured around alternating guest lectures and group discussions, framed by…
Lecture by Jason Brown, Community Design Strategist, Portland Parks Foundation, Program Coordinator Details Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 12:00PM (EDT) Urban Studio 2 W 13th 1108
Guest Lecture by Lyric Kelkar, Legislative Director for Council member Eunisses Hernandez in LA Details Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 5:00PM (EDT) Urban Studio 2 W 13th 1108
Lecture by David Gissen, Professor of Architecture, The New School Details Wednesday, February 15, 2023, 5:00 PM (EDT) Urban Studio 2 W 13th 1108
Lecture by Emrah Altinok, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Bilgi University Istanbul Turkey. Details Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 5:00 PM (EST) Urban Studio 2 W 13th 1108
Opinion Piece by Sofia Kavlin “Waste is not waste until it is wasted.” was the ethos of an eco-village where I briefly lived in the south of the Arava Desert. Sandwiched between Jordan and Egypt, I would wake up at five and rotate between turning a heap of compost some mornings, feeding the biogas…
Leah Goodridge was appointed to the New York City Planning Commission in 2021 by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Leah is the Managing Attorney for Housing Policy at Mobilization for Justice, where she oversees a team which provides legal representation to tenants in eviction proceedings. Leah also served on the New York City Rent Guidelines Board…
Chase Louden (DUE ’23) has been selected a 2022-23 Fellow of the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research. Chandler Louden earned a BA degree in Anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Chandler has developed an interest in community planning with a focus on assisting in the…
Public Space Lab, guest talk: Ana Traverso-Krejcarek October 25 @ 7PM Location: L1108, Parsons the New SchoolZoom: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/91965245814 Ana Krejcarek is the Senior Manager at The Highline Network, a consortium working to transform underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes. Krejcarek is a strong advocate for community development and public spaces, and designs citizen-driven initiatives in…
Public Space Lab, guest talk: Urban Machines: Public Space in a Digital Culture October 11 @ 7PM Marcella Del Signore is an architect, urbanist, educator, scholar, and the principal of X-Topia, a design-research practice that explores the intersection of architecture and urbanism with technology and the public, social and cultural realm. She is an Associate…
Martha Kenton serves as the Executive Director of Federal Homeless Policy at the NYC Department of Social Services. She began her career working in child welfare in Chicago before moving to New York City for graduate school in 2001. After completing her Masters, she joined the NYC Department of Homeless Services focusing on long staying…
M. E. O’Brien writes on gender freedom and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines: Pinko, on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project, and worked in HIV and AIDS activism…
Quilian Riano (pronounced: Killian) is an architectural and urban designer, researcher, writer, and educator. He is the Interim Dean of Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, working across the school’s architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, and management programs. Quilian founded and leads [DSGN AGNC](http://dsgnagnc.com/), a design studio exploring new forms of political design, engagement processes, urbanism,…
Public Space Lab, guest talk: Vikas Mehta December 1 @ 7PM Zoom: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/96929689560 Vikas Mehta is Professor of Urbanism and the Fruth/Gemini Chair, Ohio Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design and Coordinator for the Urban Design Certificate. Dr. Mehta’s work focuses on the role of design and planning in creating a more responsive, equitable, stimulating and…
Lynn Lewis works at the intersection of community organizing, oral history and popular education, focusing on documenting grassroots leadership in social justice movements. Currently, she teaches the Advanced Seminar in Urban and Public Policy and Homelessness and Public Policy course in the Milano School. She received her MA in Oral History from Columbia, after working…
Jackson (He/Him/His) joined Open Plans in June of 2020 and now serves as the Director of Advocacy and Organizing. Jackson has led the advocacy efforts for Open Plan’s proposal to create an Office of Public Space Management (OPSM) that would coordinate efforts across agencies to simplify permitting processes for open streets and other public initiatives.…
Join the final presentations of Class 2022 of the MS Design and Urban Ecologies on Tuesday, May 3rd, from 12:00 to 5:30pm in Room 404, 66 W 12th Street, New York, NY. For more information, please take a look to the agenda below. If you can’t make it in person, join us via zoom: Join…
As part of the Urban Colloquium 2 guest talks, we are hosting the alumni panel and discussion on Critical Urban Praxis, on April 27 at 4pm. This event will take place on campus and also online. Room TBA. Zoom link: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/97922827400 Guest panelists: Sabrina Dorsainvil, Director of Civic Design, Mayor’s Office of New Urban…
DUE alumna Sana Akram’s documentary film “Little Pakistan – Future Histories” has won the “Best Brooklyn Project” award by the Brooklyn Film festival, and also has recently been awarded the Best Interactive Documentary at the Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, which is held in conjunction with American Anthropological Association’s annual conference. More…
Curated by Andrea Ancira and DUE alumna Gabriela López Dena March 14 – April 15 @ Aronson Gallery, 66 Fifth Ave New York, NY Is planning for a feminist city possible? What would that process look like? What skills and knowledge would it require? How could interactions between bodies configure new forms of inhabiting a…
Bridget Fisher is a researcher and communications specialist with a background in government and public affairs. Before joining SCEPA, she was a senior press officer in The New School’s communications department working with social science departments across the university. She came to higher education from government. In New York, she served as chief of staff…
AGAINST HOUSING DISPOSSESSION: RESISTANCE NARRATIVES, CARTOGRAPHIES, AND PRACTICES PANEL DISCUSSION Tuesday, March 29th, 6:00-8:00pm, Room UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Forced evictions have created unprecedented trauma and damage across communities with the commodification of housing, the financialization of cities, and the continuous economic crises. This panel explores the anti-gentrification efforts of residents…
Pilar Finuccio was born and raised in Miami, FL. She is the daughter of a Cuban American family, the guardian of a dog named Roz, and a celebrator of all things subtropical. She studied graphic design at North Carolina State University and social design at the School of Visual Arts. Currently, she works as a…
Hendrik Tieben is Director of the MSc Urban Design and Associate Director of the School of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research and teaching are devoted to the creation of Sustainable Communities and the increase of community benefit in contemporary urban planning processes. He particularly focuses on Hong Kong, Macau and…
Thursday, December 2 , 9:00 am – 11:00 am Book Launch and Author Panel “The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area: Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion,” Routledge 2021 Book editors Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Timothy Jachna and chapter authors Juan Du and Mary O’Donnell will discuss ongoing transformations in public space,…
Public Space Lab, guest talk: Socrates Stratis November 24 @ 7PM Zoom: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/96929689560 Socrates Stratis is an urbanist, architect and activist for the urban commons. He is Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus. His research focuses on the political agencies of architecture and urban design, the strategic value of urban design, as…
Public Space Lab invites you to a student-moderated panel discussion on “Global and Comparative Perspectives on Public Space.” This conversation is framed by the Public Space Reader, an edited collection co-edited by Vikas Mehta and Miodrag Mitrašinović (Routledge 2021). November 10, 7-8:30pm (EST) Online event, zoom link: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/j/96929689560 Participants: Clara Irazábal is Professor and Director…
Infrastructure for the New Social Compact: Lecture by Teddy Cruz October 27 at 4PM Teddy Cruz is recognized internationally for his urban and architectural research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, advancing border immigrant neighborhoods as sites of cultural production, from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing and civic infrastructure. His investigation of this geography…
Prof. Traganou’s conversation with Walter Hood, one of the authors featured in the MOMA exhibition titled “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” was published in Failed Architecture, an online platform which strives to reconnect architecture with the real world and explore the meaning of architecture in contemporary society.
COHABITATION STRATEGIES AND URBAN FRONT: URBAN PRACTICE AFTER THE PANDEMIC TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021, 12-2PM Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán will lecture at the Cooper Union on OCTOBER 12, as part of the lecture series Pluriversal, Bewildered and Otherwise. Miguel Robles-Durán is an urbanist with expertise in urban political-ecology and the design/analysis of complex urban systems. He…
