The deadline is fast approaching for the XRC Cohort 5 Program application. XRC Labs would love to support more Parsons and New School alumni involved in the XRC Program as startup founders. In the last cohort they invested in FFORA a company founded by Parsons Alumna and award-winning designer Lucy Jones. In the course of the 3-months, Lucy has developed and launched her new product. We would like to support more outstanding Alumni through the program. XRC Program Startup Benefits: Funding: 100k Net Work Space on the Parsons Campus Access to a Network of top-tier Brands and Retailers Access to a Great…

For those interested in an urban course based on a trip abroad, join School of Design Strategies Professor Miodrag Mitrasinovic to China in January of 2018. The week-long intensive will be supplemented by four meetings in the Spring semester on Fridays from 3:50 to 6:30 PM. If you have any questions about this global intensive course, please contact Miodrag Mitrasinovic at mitrasim@newschool.edu!

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Parsons School of Design students within the Strategic Design and Management BFA program presents Shirt Stories, a first up-cycle fashion lab pop up in collaboration with Housing Works. By redesigning shirts that were given by Housing Works the goal of the pop up lab is to give a new (and fashionable) life to unwanted shirts and encourage up-cycling. Through hands-on fashion up-cycling workshops at the Fashion Lab we will be making a difference in our effort to minimize textile waste. There will be a Shirt Stories showcase, which will display up-cycled shirts redesigned by Parsons faculty and students. Each shirt will be presented with a story…

Join students and faculty for the Parsons Pop Up / Print Shop & Show Coinciding with 2015 Print Week, the Parsons Pop Up Print Shop will showcase the printed form from fine art prints, illustrations and graphic designs to zines and book arts. Join us for print making workshops and a showcase of the printed form at Parsons School of Design. When Friday November 6, 2015, 6:00-8:00 pm Where Parsons School of Design Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Lobby and Bark Room 5th Avenue at 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Admission Free and open to the public The deadline…

The post-graduate exhibition of Design Strategies 2015 graduates– Sophia Callahan (BBA Design + Management ’15), Chris Fussner (BBA Design + Management ’15), Noah Emrich (BFA Integrated Design Program ’15) – is now on display at 856 G Gallery in Cebu, Philippines. The graduate’s design residency with 856 G Gallery allowed the team to apply design research, ethnography, and futuring into the experiential exhibit. Description of Sari Suki, from the project team: Sari Suki 2050 is a site specific design installation that projects the local Filipino convenience store, the Sari Sari, 35 years into the future. Sari Sari stores are responsible for nearly 40% of all retail…

Strategic Design Talks Presents Pop Up Paradigm: How Pop-Ups Change the Retail Landscape Tuesday September 29, 2015 4-6:30 pm 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm The Bark Room, 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Retail strategist Melissa Gonzales discusses strategies behind pop-up retail. She will share her insights, as well as examples of tools and best practices she employs to build effective branded experiential retail. Her company, The Lion’esque Group, has gone from producing shows at New York Fashion Week to producing award-winning pop-up shops for cutting edge brands. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A. About the…

Numerous faculty, staff and students from Parsons took part in the  second annual Fred Frelinghuysen Presents… exhibition of sculpture and performance during the Bushwick Open Studios (June 5 – 7, 2015). Featuring the following Parsons faculty, staff and students: Hee Chan Kim, SDS Workshop Manager Greg Climer, SOF, Assistant Professor of Fashion Andrew Cornell Robinson, SDS, Assistant Professor of Strategic Design Michael Kirk, Adjunct faculty, AMT, Printmaking Angelo Jones, SCE, BFA Architecture class of 2017 Jonathan Niederer, SDS, BS Urban Design class of 2015 There was an interdisciplinary theme to the exhibition over all, featuring a blend of performance, sculpture, design and architectural explorations. Highlights of…

As part of this year’s Parsons Festival, four Parsons students – Sophia Callahan (BBA Design + Management ’15), Chris Fussner (BBA Design + Management ’15), Noah Emrich (BFA Integrated Design Program ’15), Henry Lam (MFA Design + Technology ’16) – created an interactive experience to educate people about the trail of data we leave behind with every digital interaction. Says Sophia Callahan, DataCafe is “just trying to open a little door that a data economy exists. Just telling people that I think is shocking to a lot of people.” The Creators Project (part of Vice Media) provided a comprehensive review here…