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.
Project Njord 2023
New York consumes 80% fossil energy, contributing to climate change and community health issues and ongoing energy projects come with their own problems ranging from non-transparent financial structures to the suppression of the rights of native groups. So why don’t we produce where we consume? Currently, there are 38,000 solar installations in NYC, accounting for 6% of the 624,000 solar-viable roofs. 72% of these roofs are owned by large landlords, marginalising small landlords with better renting conditions but higher financial pressure from local laws, taxes, insurance costs, and pandemic-related income loss. Njord removes renewable energy from small landlords’ to-do lists….
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OHOM: Closed network community for mental health improvement and support 2023
We’ve identified a big need for well-being resources that are affordable, available, overall convenient, and community-oriented. We seek to invite individuals to join a collective that provides structure and tools to improve their well-being in an honest and engaging manner. It all starts with a mental health questionnaire, modernized and adapted to modern language, preventing it from being repetitive or obvious, as current questionnaires might be. After that, we sort and evaluate the individuals, and with those results, we co-design a full-day event where they can interact and share with other members who share their concerns. Since this is co-created, they…
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Fine Biology – Sustainable Fashion 2023
Fine biology focus on the fashion evolution of biological fabrics and let target user make purchases. How biological fabrics make fashion industry difference is CO2 emissions, which account for 50% emissions. 80% of global consumers think they are interested in sustainable fashion but not willing to make purchases, the top 3 what they are about biological fabrics is Style, Comfort, Quality. The existing biological fabrics and sustainable apparel can’t meet the needs of consumers and the market. Many products are not truly suitable for application in daily clothing or leather accessories. Our services include comprehensive solutions from sustainable strategy, biological fabric innovation, fashion product design,…
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Fashion Regeneration Factory 2023
With almost two-thirds of clothing castoffs headed directly to the landfill, we will see shares of the second-hand industry move towards upcycling unwearable garments. International trade agreements allow the Global North to send unwanted clothes to the Global South, causing mountains of clothes to pile up in forgotten parts of the world. The Fashion Regeneration Factory collects clothing to create personalized products to extend the textile lifecycle. Working with thrift stores, donation centers, and city waste management to collect excess clothing reduces the expense of shuttling clothes and provides a steady stream of garments at little cost. Mitigating the number…
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Fashion Issue: Learning/Action platform for conscious creatives in fashion and culture industries 2023
The fashion industry is known for the power it holds and the impact it makes in our society, culture and to the environment. The mainstream fashion publications work as propagators –playing a significant role in not just shaping the fashion industry, but also perpetuating certain core issues within it. How can fashion publications, as a creative industry, be more reflective of the socio-political and environmental zeitgeist without being superficial? And how can the masses play an active role in affecting this shift within the industry? Fashion Issue is a free participatory digital platform that functions primarily as an information hub:…
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Co-Spark: Co-creating employee growth for holistic wellbeing in the post pandemic workplace 2023
What is CoSpark? CoSpark is a platform designed to revolutionize the way organizations approach employee growth and wellbeing in the post-pandemic hybrid workplace. What is its purpose? With our research we identified a critical opportunity in addressing the dynamic and personal needs of employees during times of transition at a workplace (for eg – New hires, promotions or personal life transitions such as a birth of a child) The purpose of our project is to empower People Operations to create a positive employee experience that boosts retention, job satisfaction, and engagement. We recognized that traditional HR systems are rapidly becoming…
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Beans: Improving Trust in Hybrid Work Place Teams 2023
Our project addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by the hybrid work model. We identified that while hybrid work offers flexibility and efficiency, it falls short on effective communication and informal interactions through digital channels that are crucial for connection and belonging among employees. This lack of connection negatively impacts productivity, satisfaction, retention rates, therefore, companies lose billions annually. The main innovation we identified is the integration of micro transactions for gift sharing and thank you notes through an app called Beans. Our solution aims to facilitate interpersonal relationships in a hybrid workplace by providing employees with a platform to…
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I AM: Holistic health, physical health, mental peace, better total health 2023
Meet I AM, a platform that is looking for a happier, healthier future. I AM was born in the midst of a global health crisis. Over the past three years anxiety, depression, and disordered eating have been on the rise, while we as a society continue to demonize our bodies for the states in which they exist. We recognized that we treat mental and physical health as separate entities, which has set ourselves up to run negative feedback loops, trying to balance mental and physical health rather than just looking to improve our total individual wellness. I AM brings together…
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Exploring financial wellness for Gen Z adults and millennials 2023
FinWell is a one-stop financial wellness platform that empowers and enables younger adults to improve their relationships with money and navigate life’s ambiguities. Through our research, we found that finances are inherently emotional and can be stressful and overwhelming for a majority of the segment. At FinWell, money meets emotions to help you improve your thoughts, feelings, and actions around finances. Our solution starts with a financial personality quiz to help us and our users better understand their behaviors and mental models when it comes to money. They can then speak with a financial therapist, create a roadmap to work…
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SYNC: Leveraging Time Diversity to Unlock Organizational Potential 2023
Studies show that flexible work arrangements boost employee engagement and productivity. Many organizations now give employees the freedom to choose the spaces where they work but have yet to give them a choice over when they work. Sync helps organizations understand employee time needs and redesign work time. It invites employees to share when they work most effectively to catalyze conversations about collaboration and inclusion. The platform also leverages research across psychology, chronobiology, and organizational design to share insights and make actionable recommendations. Future-ready organizations are time-dynamic and time diverse: they are attuned to the different ways their employees think,…
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