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: 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…
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…
Prof. Traganou’s coversation with Olalekan Jeyifous, one of the authors featured in the MOMA exhibition titled “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America,” was published in Platform, an open digital venue for exchanging new ideas about working with, researching, teaching, and writing about buildings, spaces, and landscapes.
Public Space Lab, guest talk: Urban Machines: Public Space in a Digital Culture October 13 @ 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…
The New School News publishes an article about Prof. Mitrašinović’s two new books exploring public spaces and the public realm, both published by Routledge in 2021.
Cities After… is a bi-monthly podcast about the future of cities, hosted by Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán. Grounded in our daily urban struggles, it is part dystopian and part utopian. The intention is to entice civic imagination into action, because a more just and sustainable urban future is possible. Cities After… was launched in May of…
India China Institute interviewed Prof. Jilly Traganou and Betti Marenko, co-editors of “Design in the Pandemic: Dispatches from the Early Months,” on their employment of design perspectives to discuss how inventive and localized strategies around the world emerged to handle the challenges posed by COVID-19. This interview was originally published in Pandemic Discourses.
Profs. Gabriela Rendon and Miguel Robles-Durán, and their cooperative Cohabitation Strategies (COHSTRA), have been featured in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. From the exhibition catalog: The constant exploitation of urban communities and the planet enables the current state of urbanization. It is capitalism’s tendency to pursue what Marx called “the enforced destruction of a mass…
SEEKING ALTERNATIVE URBANITIES Join us for a day of discussions and celebrations of the work of the 2021 graduating cohort of MA Theories of Urban Practice and MS Design and Urban Ecologies programs! MAY 3, 9AM-4PM Register in advance for this event: Zoom Link: https://NewSchool.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-GgrjkiHdwhsaHnibFmR0E1YcLfex0e See 2021 Thesis Book here. [9:00-9:15am] Introduction to Thesis Works/Conversations…
Sabrina Dorsainvil is Director of Civic Design in Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in Boston, MA. Sabrina is fascinated by people: the way they move, speak, touch, interact and experience environments, objects and each other. She brings this lens to her work as a designer and illustrator; from playful drawings to human centered design…
Other New Deals lecture series Marshall Plan Part II: Farming Next Rural Trade Relationships Friday, April 9, 2021 4-6PM Join us for a continuation of our Other New Deals conversation surrounding a Marshall Plan for Rural America, started on February 26th. We are going to dig deeper into the pathways between urban-rural farming practices and how they…
BUILDING COOPERATIVE MOVEMENTS FOR INCLUSIVE FUTURES ONLINE PANEL THURSDAY, APRIL 8 7:30 – 9:00 PM (EST) ONLINE / ZOOM REGISTER HERE Community Land Trusts are a growing movement and effective alternative to the overpowering private real estate market. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of the housing markets and their declining public housing options.…
MOBILIZING AGAINST EVICTION WAVE: PANEL DISCUSSION ON EVICTION MORATORIUM, CANCEL RENT, AND OTHER TENANT PROTECTION EFFORTS THURSDAY, MARCH 4 7:30 – 9:00 PM ONLINE / ZOOM REGISTER HERE Housing insecurity has been exacerbated by the economic impact of the pandemic. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers currently face the inability to pay rent, harassment from…
STEALTH.unlimited (2000, Rotterdam/Belgrade) is an internationally active spatial practice led by Ana Džokić and Marc Neelen. Although initially trained as architects, for over 15 years their work is equally based in the context of contemporary art and culture. Through intensive collaboration with individuals, organizations and institutions, STEALTH connects urban research, visual arts, spatial interventions and…
Clair Beltran Clair Beltran is CUP’s Program Coordinator. Clair has been involved in a number of important CUP programs, including Get Support In Housing Court, Figuring Out FEMA, and Parents Rights During Covid19. She is a graduate of Middlebury College where she studied Architecture and Geography, and her interest is in the intersections of sociology,…
Failed Architecture editor Joshua McWhirter (TUP 2016) interviewed Prof. Jilly Traganou, editor of the recently published book “Design and Political Dissent: Spaces, Visuals, Materialities.” Near the end of a year filled with mass protests on streets across the United States and the world, Prof. Traganou talks about some of book’s themes and their significance during…
DECADE OF FIRE: STAY-FIGHT-BUILD SCREENING AND DISCUSSION DOCUMENTARY FILM BY VIVIAN VAZQUEZ IRIZARRY, GRETCHEN HILDEBRAN, JULIA ALLEN, AND NEYDA MARTINEZ WATCH ONLINE SCREENING: February 2-11 JOIN ONLINE DISCUSSION: Thursday, February 11, 7:00-8:30pm REGISTER HERE Please register to receive the links to access the documentary film and to join the discussion. Throughout the 1970’s, fires consumed the South…
Date and time: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:00 – 11:30 AM (US EST) For event REGISTRATION, follow this link. The China Made project seeks to build an innovative research agenda for an infrastructural approach in the China Studies field. We approach infrastructure as both an empirically rich material object of research and an analytical strategy…
PUSH/THE FILM DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AND HOUSING ACTIVIST DISCUSSION THIS EVENT WAS ORGANIZED BY STUDENTS FROM THE MS DESIGN AND URBAN ECOLOGIES PROGRAM, PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, IN COLLABORATION WITH STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ONLINE/ZOOM SCREENING: JANUARY 24 – FEBRUARY 6 DISCUSSION: FEBRUARY 1, 7:00 – 8:30 PM Global finance is profiting handsomely from…
The Spatial Contract: A New Politics of Provisions for an Urbanized Planet Alex Schafran, a writer, urban planner, geographer, educator, researcher and activist, and Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. Schafran’s work focuses on issues of housing, racial segregation and the broader politics of urbanization. His publications include “The road to resegregation: Northern California…
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman are principals in Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, a research-based political and architectural practice in San Diego transgressing conventional boundaries between theory and practice, and merging the fields of architecture and urbanism, political theory and urban policy. The practice investigates issues of informal urbanization, civic infrastructure, and public culture,…
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…
Ana Fisyak is an urban planner, researcher, and nonprofit strategist dedicated to a community-based approach. She has provided technical assistance for NYC communities and CBOs for over a decade, especially collaborating with organizations in low-income communities of color and environmental justice areas. She specializes in taking ambitious ideas to fruition—whether starting a new community hub…
2020: A Year Without Public Space ONLINE CONFERENCE, will take place on 6-7 November 2020. This conference follows a successful series of webinars on the topic which took place between May and October 2020. The conference is organized by City Space Architecture and School of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in partnership…
Thursday, October 8, 5:00 to 7:00 pm ONLINE/ZOOM REGISTER HERE It has been widely acknowledged that under-served and immigrant communities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. As the effects of the virus unfold, community leaders and organizations are assessing the damage, confronting unprecedented challenges, and building capacity to plan and implement recovery efforts. This…
World Zero Evictions Days: International Alliance of Inhabitants (IAI) fights for international solidarity to achieve dignity and security in housing because #HousingisaHumanRight. IAI has long declared the month of October World Zero Eviction days. Connect your fight for international solidarity and the right to housing on the IAI Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/InternationalAllianceInhabitants. The United Nations…
This webinar will explore and discuss different tools and approaches within the field of militant research, and its suitability to the current situation of communities and activist organizations in COVID and Post-COVID cities. Militant research has its starting point in the assumption that there is no such a thing as a neutral standpoint for the…
Thursday June 25, 8AM EST This webinar is part of the initiative ‘2020: A Year without Public Space under the COVID-19 Pandemic’. For the list of events in the series, follow this link. >>> REGISTER HERE The COVID-19 pandemic has forced architecture, design and planning schools and universities around the world to pause face-to-face teaching…
Friday, June 19, 2020 @ 10:00AM to 1:00PM (EDT) It is now evident that the design of (new) infrastructures of inclusion, cooperation, and solidarity ought to be our primary and urgent task. A consortium of six universities from the United States and Europe (led by Parsons School of Design and KU Leuven) had organized a…
Join Prof. Miodrag Mitrasinovic for “Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion” public talk as part of the Public Space Research Group lecture series, at the CUNY Graduate Center. Friday, June 26, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Register HERE
Join Prof. Miodrag Mitrasinovic, and the Public Space Lab, for series of exciting events and workshops co-organized by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Journal of Public Space, Urban@Parsons, and other global partners. Check here regularly for updates and links to the events. Provisional schedule is below. For registration, go here. Recordings of past events…
Congratulations to alumni Fadi Shayya (TUP ‘16) and Kevin Rogan (TUP ‘19) who were both recently published in Failed Architecture “Architecture is Never non-Political”: Michael Sorkin by Fadi Shayya The City and The City and Coronavirus by Kevin Rogan
Maanasa Sivashankar (DUE 20) and Akiera Charles (DUE 20) are the recipients of the 2020 Tishman Scholarship, awarded annually to students whose work exemplifies the University’s commitment to sustainable development, design, and construction.
ONLINE PANEL Tuesday, April 28, 6:00-7:30 pm Online | Zoom REGISTER As New York continues to battle the COVID-19 crisis, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio still have no plan to rehouse and protect homeless New Yorkers. While hundreds of thousands of apartments and hotel rooms go empty and citizens are told to stay at home, homeless New…
The fight for tenant rights and rent regulation is unifying tenants and housing justice advocates across global cities. Out of these new coalitions, housing activists are rising to lead ambitious tenant campaigns and housing policy platforms. Some are taking public offices to drive reform while others push for new laws through grassroots organizing. This panel…
MS Design and Urban Ecologies’ project United for Housing: Reclaiming local cooperativism in Sunset Park will be exhibited at the National Museum of History of Immigration at the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris this month. United for Housing is part of a multi-year community developed by three cohorts of the MS Design and Urban Ecologies program in…
AT HOME IN UTOPIA Documentary Film by Michal Goldman In the mid-1920s, thousands of immigrant Jewish garment workers catapulted themselves out of the urban slums and ghettos by pooling their resources and building cooperatively owned and run apartment complexes in the Bronx. Adjacent to the newly opened subway corridor and in the midst of empty…
