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Creating Connections MS SDM Fall 2024 Symposium
The first annual MS Strategic Design & Management Fall 2024 Symposium is coming up on November 22, at 1opm at The New School. This symposium will explore how Strategic Designers create connections within systems, among stakeholders, to new opportunities, in complex ecosystems, in communities, and around the world. Through panel discussions, participatory workshops, Pecha Kucha-style presentations, posters, and product demos, students will share project work and emergent discourses that serve to inform practices in strategic design. FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND PROGRAMING INFORMATION
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Good Interventions ’24 – Strategic Design Exhibition
Good Interventions is an annual exhibition of intangible design projects that address the pressing issues of our time by bringing together the power of design and social sciences. For its third edition, fifteen projects have been selected to be exhibited. The program is organized by the School of Design Strategies and will take place in its permanent exhibition as a portal in the Platform of Design Strategies. 2024 Discussant: Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh Designers: Abbey Manliclic | Aman Pathak | Andreu Belsunces | Anne-Li Liljeblad | Antonio Araujo | Anupama Krishnan | Barbara Darian | Chloé de Montgolfier | Emma Kowalczy |…
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Empowering Change Through Impactful Entrepreneurship: An Inside Look at Parsons ELab
Parsons Entrepreneurship Lab (ELab) is a transformative initiative within Parsons that equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the resources, guidance, and community support to drive meaningful change. Through research, mentorship, and events, ELab creates a space where students can grow and refine their ideas with impact-driven strategies. A recent highlight from ELab’s contributions to entrepreneurial thought is the release of A Design-Driven Guide for Entrepreneurs: Strategies for Starting Up in a Multiverse, co-authored by ELab founder and director Rhea Alexander, MSSDM Alum, part-time faculty and former Elab research assistant, Rose Pember, and former part-time faculty Kiely Sweat and Joseph Press. This book…
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The MS in Strategic Design & Management challenges students to understand business as an inherently creative human undertaking uniquely suited to confront the massive societal and economic shifts of the 21st century. The MS SDM program is situated at the cutting edge of historic changes in how value is understood and created at large through business management, and aims to continue to set the pace in an uncertain world.
Students learn to utilize Design Thinking (DT) methods within applied and contextual ethnographic/design research projects to develop strategies which can be articulated through business models, organizational innovations, and the redesign of both collective and individual cultures and mindsets.