Public Space Lab: Public space in the age of COVID-19 pandemic FALL 2020 / PSDS 5508 / CRN 3624 Prof. Miodrag Mitrasinovic After Tahrir Square, Occupy Wall Street, The Umbrella Movement, and other mass protests which have placed the relation between public space and democracy back into the world’s focus, we are now facing deserted…
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…
Aditi Nair (MS DUE ’20) co-authored a paper on “Self-redevelopment as a model for Mumbai’s housing crisis”, along with Rohit Lahoti (UCL ’20). The paper has been published in the Mumbai Reader ’19.
DUE Alum Jessica Serrante and her work with the Radical Support Collective were featured in the New York Times earlier this month. Jessica is a leadership coach, community organizer and urbanist and is interested in supporting movements for climate justice and urban resilience through design, facilitation, coaching and organizing. She received her MS in Design…
Please join us for a conversation between local activists, academics, and housing experts working towards a system of cooperative and community-led housing in New York. The event will be introduced by Gabriela Rendón, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development, and moderated by Kevin McQueen, Adjunct Professor of Nonprofit Management, Public, and Urban Policy.…
Please join us for a public lecture from Biennale Urbana, hosted by Parsons Urban Graduate Programs and the Prof. Miodrag Mitrasinovic’s Public Space Lab class. Monday, November 18th 5:45pm The New School – Parsons School of Design 2 W. 13th Street, Room 1108 New York, NY 10003
Urban @ The New School celebrates 100 years of the New School in New York and provides reflections on the past, present, and future of six academic programs that constitute Urban @ The New School. In bringing together students, faculty, staff, alumni and guests with interest in urban studies, urbanism, urban policy and planning, and…
We are proud to announce that MS DUE alumna Eduarda Aun’s online platform, Espaço Público (Public Space), it is now ready to serve communities and has been featured on Archdaily Brasil. Eduarda started this project during the last year of the MS in Design and Urban Ecologies as part of her thesis project. After graduation,…
Please join us for a conversation between Marika Dias, Director of the Tenant Rights Coalition, Legal Services NYC and Brittany Thomas, Bertha Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights in NYC. The event will be introduced by Miguel Robles-Durán, Associate Professor of Urbanism and moderated by Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center…
Please join us at the Bushwick Generator on Tuesday, May 14th for an exhibition showcasing the thesis projects of our students graduating from the MS Design and Urban Ecologies and the MA Theories of Urban Practice programs. The event features an open gallery, panel discussions as well as media screenings including films produced by our…
The Reunion Hub.Up is bringing back the beloved Disturbanist Discourse: a night of presentations, discussion, and celebration featuring recent graduates of the Parsons Theories of Urban Practice (MA) and Design and Urban Ecologies (MS) programs. Together, we will build connections between students & future colleagues who see their work as ‘disturbing’ standard methods of practices,…
Please join Urban@Parsons for an embodied workshop with Nik Zaleski that will apply performance strategies to organizing, activism and movement building efforts. It will combine storytelling exercises with game-based methods from a multitude of performance platforms including Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, creative drama and improvisational theater. The workshop will orient participants to the…
Urban@Parsons co-sponsored a public forum on March 7th together with Global Studies, Lang Civic Liberal Arts, Lang Gender Studies, Parsons First Year and Parsons SDS/ADHT Design/Urban Activism Practices. The forum was moderated by Professor Laura Y. Liu of Global Studies at The New School. The speakers included Stephanie Dinkins, transdisciplinary artist, Betty Yu, the co-founder…
Training director Nadine Bloch got active and aspiring activists into some Beautiful Trouble at two events hosted by Urban@Parsons. Nadine is an innovative artist, nonviolent action practitioner, political organizer, direct-action trainer, and puppetista. She combines the principles and strategies of people-power with creative use of the arts in cultural resistance and public protest. On the…
MS Design and Urban Ecologies and MA Theories of Urban Practice students from the Urban History Lab course led by Professor Joseph Heathcott in Fall 2018, have been named as finalists in the national competition to re-imagine Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. A National Landmark, Monument Avenue features a series of statues glorifying the Confederacy…
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, will visit the Graduate Urban Programs at Parsons, The New School for a conversation with Professor Miguel Robles-Duran on the #MakeTheShift campaign and her work and challenges on reclaiming and realizing the right to housing. Housing and real estate markets worldwide have been…
Please join us for the launch of Volume 9 of the Journal of Design Strategies, Cooperative Cities, which provides a critical insight to the way women have conceptualized and fostered the co-production of non hierarchical and cooperative urban practices across cities and nations. We are celebrating their work with a panel discussion involving a transgenerational…
Urban Transformation, Public Space, & Resiliency PEZ Estudio, Elisa de los Reyes Garcia Tuesday, September 4, 2018 10:00-11:30 am University Center, 63 5th Ave, room 515, Graduate urban studio Please join the Urban@Parsons programs, at an inspiring lecture by PEZ Estudio, Madrid/Bilbao Spain based design and research collective. One of its co-founders, Elisa de los…
Join the Urban Council and the students of the MA Theory of Urban Practice and MS Design of Urban Ecologies as they present their work. Faculty, friends & family, and guests are welcome to attend. MS Design and Urban Ecologies Thesis Monday May 7, 2018 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM UPDATED LOCATION/TIME MA Theories of…
As part of her thesis project, Feminist Urbanism, DUE student Gabriela López Dena is organizing a workshop in partnership with Interference Archive and Art and Feminism. Feminist Urbanism is proposed as a five-issue magazine seeking to foster collaboration between existing social, spatial and artistic practices led by women in New York City. The different volumes…
On April 29, 2018 urbanists, activists, and professionals joined together at the New School to participate in the Forum for Real Community Planning in NYC, hosted by Urban@Parsons programs and convened by the editors and writers of Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City. Actionable conversation took place among participants who spoke…
The commodification of housing and neighborhoods has increasingly produced alienation and anxiety across low-and moderate-income communities in large cities. As a response, grassroots and nonprofit groups have organized and demanded community-control over housing and neighborhood restructuring processes. Some cities have acknowledged these claims, as it is the case of New York City and Barcelona. This panel…
The Right to the City Graduate Seminar is honored to host as guest, marxist geographer and urbanist, David Harvey this coming Monday, February 5th at 6:00pm. David Harvey will be in conversation with Miguel Robles-Durán, Associate Professor of Urbanism, and students from the graduate seminar. The event will take place at: University Center 63 5th…
The Right to the City Graduate Seminar will kick off on Monday, January 29th at 6:00pm. In its tradition of progressive inquiry, The New School’s Right to the City Graduate Seminar will delve into what Harvey calls “one of the most precious, yet most neglected human rights”, exploring the many forms in which The Right to…
We are pleased to announce the MS Design and Urban Ecologies’ work is being featured at the «Places en relation» exhibition at the George Pompidou Center in Paris. The exhibition which is curated by Institut Civic City’s co-founders Ruedi and Vera Bauer opened last weekend. Institut Civic City is collaborating in this project with Théâtre Saint Gervais,…
Please join these two events, a talk and a workshop, which will be led by the PEZ [Estudio] next week. PEZ [Estudio] is a collective based in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain. For more information click here. Both the talk and the workshop will address projects, topics and methodologies related to resiliency, co-creation, open source, and…
The opening seminar will look at the current situation of Trump in the Whitehouse and reflect on the last 100 years of race and class in America. We will discuss race through housing, including redlining and predatory lending practices. We will discuss events through the civil rights era and the uprising in the 60s. And finally the…
The purpose of the symposium is to discuss variations of the concept of urban public space and multiplicities of public spatial practice that have emerged in the context of the Pearl River Delta’s rapid urban development in the last forty years. We are particularly interested in exploring characteristics that make the public space and…
The Portuguese city-state of Macau was one of the first, and ultimately the last, European colony in Asia. Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the People’s Republic of China in 1999, and the subsequent liberalization of the city’s casino gaming monopoly, Macau has been transformed into the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming, with…
Please join the Urban Programs in their Thesis and Studio 2 Presentations this week. Studio 2 focuses on the Brooklyn-Queens Waterfront while Thesis topics range from extractive economies in Peru to transportation solutions in Charlotte. All presentations will take place at the University Center located at 63 5th Avenue in room 515. Studio 2 Presentations…
Congratulations to a winning team from our DUE program! MS Design and Urban Ecologies students Eduarda Aun, Zara Farooq and Lyric Kelkar proposed a solution to overcrowding of schools in Sunset Park through a program called Sunset Park Connect. Congrats to these students for their compelling and innovative work! The New School’s Center for New…
Jonathan Lapalme is the principal at Les Interstices, a strategic design atelier based in Montreal, and the initiator and co-founder of Entremise, a non-profit organization specializing in temporary and transitory uses for vacant buildings. He received his MS in Design and Urban Ecologies in 2014. The non-profit being featured for the Urban Future Fellows is…
You’re invited to Startup Design Jam! Calling all game-changers! If you have a background in web development, marketing, communication, public relations, design or business development, join us to show off your capabilities and gain insight into how startups grow. >> All skill levels are welcome! << Collaborate with like minded people to solve problems and…
Join us for an exclusive screening of the critically acclaimed short documentary Arc of Justice, directed by Helen S. Cohen and Mark Lipman, which traces the journey of New Communities, Inc., in southwest Georgia, a pioneer of the community land trust model. Stay for a discussion about how CLTs are being formed in New York…
Join us for a Test and Play Session! Come to our User Testing Workshop and learn more about the amazing concepts our startups are working on while helping them test their service/products!! RSVP TODAY! Collaborate with like-minded people to solve problems and create new solutions with 5 startups founded by current students and recent Parsons…
Examining the Consequences of 400 Years of Inequality In 1776 the Declaration of Independence boldy declared, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” Reality belied that statement, as millions were then held in bondage, and the Founding Fathers decided to count those slaves as “3/5’s of a person.” That…
Design and Urban Ecologies (MS) alumna Aubrey Murdock (Class of 2014) is the Head of School and Lead Designer for this organization providing community skill shares free of charge. Dr. Mindy Fullilove, a part-time professor at The New School, is also the President of this organization. Do not miss the opportunity to learn more skills…
First year Design and Urban Ecologies (MS) student, Caroline Macfarlane (Class of 2018), was asked to submit an article to the Third Atlantic online publication. In it she discusses the history of New York City and its colonial-settler history and the idea of “the urban” as always having colonial ties to it. You can check…
Ezio Manzini, a leading thinker in design for sustainability, founded DESIS, an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability. He is Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Chair Professor at University of the Arts London, and currently guest Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Jiangnan University, Wuxi. The lecture proposes an…
Theories of Urban Practice second year students Francisco Miranda and Ruchika Lodha are co-leading a Conversation on this year’s Verge NYC conference. This year’s theme is Invisibility and their Conversation will be on Designing for Inclusion: In the contemporary Anthropocentric Era, the dichotomy between nature and society has been amplified by the divide between economies…
Theories of Urban Practice Seminars will host Pau Faus, a visual artist and documentary filmmaker and NYC-based activist Rob Robinson. Their discussion will be around Pau Faus’ latest documentary Ada for Mayor about Barcelona’s activist Mayor Ada Colau’s one year, from her time spent organizing the anti-eviction fight in Barcelona to the day she is sworn-in as its Mayor. The…
February 13th, 6pm-8pm, Klein Conference Room, A510, 66 West 12th Street. In this talk, Forman and Cruz will discuss the Cross-Border Community Stations, a platform of knowledge exchange that links the University of California-San Diego with marginalized communities on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border. The Community Stations enable the university to transgress this contested and…
A talk on an upcoming book about dams, trees, graft, highways, court cases, Euphrates, mountain goats, and may be panic. With contributors: Aslıhan Demirtaş, Ali Taptık, Hakan Topal, Evren Uzer Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1:00pm – 3:00pm The Orozco Room, Alvin Johnson / JM Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th St A712 New York…
Prof. Quilian Riano’s amazing projects have been featured on two articles on Architect’s Newspaper, you can check them out here! This architect turns Sun Belt battles over land and water into a provocative game. Only the wonkiest eyes light up when resource allocation is discussed in facts and figures, so architect Quilian Riano decided to have some fun in the…
