Students
Students come to the Parsons MS SDM program from all over the world. Their experience combines studios, seminars, networking, events, symposia, and more. This page will inform you about student projects like First Year Studio and Second Year Studio, student resources, and other opportunities.
Good Interventions ’23: An Economic And Strategic Design Exhibition
About Good Interventions ’23 Koray Caliskan and Ishaanee Pandey Curators (Curatorial Team and the Jury of Good Interventions’23: Dr Barbara Adams, Noopur Ambre, Simone Calbi, Dr Koray Caliskan, Joana Chang, Angelica Cuevas, Cas Esteve, Samaksh Jain, Ishaanee Pandey, Anwesha Sengupta, Elis Shin, Claire Quong, and Jonathan Yubi Gomez.) What does the notion of ‘making to think’ encapsulate? How can design serve as a means of comprehending our world? In which ways can we articulate or reimagine our environments with design interventions? The Good Interventions Exhibition’23, building upon the foundations of the inaugural competition and exhibition in 2022 amalgamates the strengths…
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Who Cares? A Project About Women’s Unpaid Care Work
The problem she challenges with this project is that unpaid care work is taken for granted as a woman’s role — easy, unskilled and a product of emotional abstraction. She made an exhibition to name it, describe it, enhance its complexity, and show its strength using data. With this exhibition her goals are to make unpaid care work a topic of debate and define it as an essential work in our society. Designer Alicia Manuela Ospina-Pedraza RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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The Environmental Citizen’s Playbook
The climate is changing, but whilst the environmental movement grows, so does concern for wellbeing. To enable lasting engagement we must find new, more sensitive ways to address these critical topics. The Environmental Citizen’s Playbook explores the potential of playfulness and joy within environmentalism, for building resilience and healing within conscious communities. Through imagination, escapism, roleplay and more, the project co-creates speculative ideas to find playfulness in everyday environmental action. Designer Savannah Vize RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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MicroSentry: Seeing What’s Too Small to See
MicroSentry is an innovative solution to help detect microplastics in our water bodies. Our device is a low-cost and field-deployable in-situ sensor that can be attached to existing infrastructures such as data buoys, research vessels, and piers. It is designed to be used for continuous data collection, providing real-time, representative data that is relevant to scientific research and contamination monitoring for water companies. Designers Nirmal Thomas, Linxi Cao, Grace Duan, Irene Jia RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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Caketopia – What’s Your Baking Point?
Caketopia is a gamified way of learning and exploring the impact of platforms in the modern economy. Players create personalized infrastructures (cake recipes) within a platform (the board), experiencing the unpredictable nature of this environment due to changing regulations and economic unrest. Players understand the interdependence of the platform economy, acting as both buyers and sellers and realizing their actions affect the entire dynamics of the game. Designers Bhumika Keswani, Tanmayi Dreshmukh, Samaksh Jain, Laura Martinez RETURN TO GOOD INTERVENTIONS ’23 EXHIBITION
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Black Diasporas Naarm-Melbourne
Story-telling has always been a political act, whether intentional or not. For decades main-stream narratives about people of African heritage living in Australia have perpetuated tropes of nefarious ‘gang members’ or exceptional heroes. What is most dangerous about the status-qou is it’s distortion of our self-perception. The Black Diasporas geolocated-storytelling platform is a more nuanced representation of the 50,000+ of us living in Naarm-Melbourne: our voices telling our stories. Designers Kholisile Dhliwayo and Sandra Githinji Contributors: Alimba, Amanda, Amarachi, Amaryllis, Angela, Araba, Awale, Charity, Dozie, Esther, Eve, Fatuma, Hanad, Hope, Idil, James, Jay, Joseph, Joshua, Kwame, Mahtut, Moey, Mohammed, Monica,…
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Ripple.ai: AI for design researchers 2023
Our research and strategy development aim to address the challenges and frustrations faced by design strategists and researchers in conducting interviews. Through our design research process, we identified several key areas where innovation and improvement were needed and based on the research and insights over the year, we have developed an MVP of our startup idea. . The main innovation and opportunity we identified is integrating cutting-edge AI technology into the interview process. We recognized that the shift towards online communication has led to a loss of human connection during virtual interviews, making it difficult for design strategists to fully…
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Cannabiz: Business incubator for social justice and equity in the emerging legal cannabis industry 2023
The Cannabiz Legacy team uncovered a significant opportunity to promote social equity within the cannabis industry, particularly for legacy operators or veterans who have operated in the illegal sector and face challenges such as educational gaps, limited opportunities, and discrimination. To address this pressing need, our project aims to establish an innovative incubator space that offers a comprehensive toolkit to help them start a business and address the emotional challenges they face as entrepreneurs and their intertwined stories with the cannabis industry. Cannabiz Legacy aims to bridge the gap between the new legal cannabis opportunities and the communities most impacted…
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Ai.ly 2023
Ai.ly, the Chrome plugin to excel at job interviews, emerged from comprehensive research and a strategic approach targeting the most concerning worry for young adults: navigating the labyrinth of job interviews within an AI-dominated recruitment ecosystem. The innovation stands as a groundbreaking beacon of hope, serving as a testament to facilitate this endeavor for recent graduates and broader audiences. This voice-enabled AI chatbot bridges the gap between powerful corporate recruitment entities and individual job seekers, democratizing access to sophisticated AI-empowered tools that have traditionally been the exclusive domain of enterprises. The mission of Ai.ly is multi-faceted. It not only serves…
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La Vie Perlée 2023
La Vie Perlée (The Pearled Life) was born from the realization that Black Women are facing a stress epidemic that significantly impacts our mental, physical, and emotional health. Black Women’s health is affected twofold by the social stress that comes with existing as Black and as women in American society, compounded by health and socioeconomic disparity. I set out to further investigate the causes and effects of stress on Black Women and legitimate interventions for stress management. In my research, I discovered psychotherapy and holistic therapy, which encompass various proven methods that help treat and empower individuals to better manage…
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