Post Date: January 8, 2015

The School of Design Strategies is pleased to announce that two BBA Strategic Design & Management students were awarded $5,000 scholarships on behalf of the YMA-Fashion Scholarship Fund. Founded in 1937, the fund is a national association dedicated to promote education of the fashion arts and business. Its mission is to recruit, nurture and cultivate the next generation of leaders in the industry. Students were asked to research and develop a competitive analysis of a brand, present a marketing plan, and create a collection of garments for Lululemon. Six total Parsons students were selected based on their menswear-focused submissions. The winners will…

Post Date: January 8, 2015

Fondation D’Entreprise Cathay Capital Prize for School of Design Strategies Paris chose three finalists from the MS Strategic Design & Management Parsons NY Program to form a Project Partnership with 3 BBA Parsons Paris students. Congratulations to the following finalists who will later compete for the final three prizes: Ashley Rui Li – Business Residency Incubator Project Jessica Wong – Makers Connect Project Isata Yansaneh – Fabric Remnant + Cultural Youth Ctr Project The Cathay Foundation has established a prize to recognize innovative work in strategic design that specifically connects France and China and recognizes excellence in the Digital and Design and Management fields. Next Steps in…

Post Date: October 29, 2014

Buy Nothing New Month Project: 44 students, 1 month, ZERO new stuff Inspired by the international Buy Nothing New Month, this project aims to explore the behaviors and values of Millennials (aka Y generation) in the context of consumerism and sustainable alternatives (sharing, swapping, making, second-hand) to consumption through facilitation of a Buy Nothing New Month challenge. In this challenge 44 BBA students were asked to buy nothing new (other than food and absolute necessities) during the month of October and to document their experiences in various formats, capturing personal creative reflections on the project. Students’ reflections, in forms of text, images, and…

Post Date: May 28, 2014

Getrid is the simplest way to give and get things for free. The app is created by Sebastian Lindén, a Parsons student majoring in Strategic Design + Management, and will be released on May 26 in the US. Getrid is a mobile application that helps people to get rid of the things they don’t need anymore and find things that could be reused. As the process of consuming has become increasingly complex and stressful, with many choices and even more challenging gadgets, we tend to bewildered into overconsumption. It takes no more than 5 seconds to upload an item, and it is free without any…

Post Date: April 16, 2014

  Where: Saturday, April 19th 1-4 pm Where: The University Center, room 504

Post Date: April 4, 2014

The Italian Association for Industrial Design ADI has selected SDS faculty, Christian Schneider’s Art Object of Rather Critical Thought, YOUCRUX (design development by Arch. Federico Lardera), currently shown at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, to their 2014 election of “Best of Italian Design put into production” for the prestigious “Compasso d’Oro”  Youcrux ® merges the icon of the Christian cross with typically contemporary design themes and concepts. The object is made entirely of ash wood and distributed in a compact kit that contains the instructions for use on the outside (with the slogan: “Fix up your cross on the wall”), and screen-printed on…

Post Date: February 14, 2014

Be a part of this years Parsons Festival 2014 Exhibition! Call for Entries: Parsons Festival 2014 Exhibition Making/Meaning Meaning/Making For the first time curated by students, the Parsons Festival Exhibition showcases a selection of the creative and intellectual inquiries and passions of Parsons’ undergraduate and AAS students. The exhibition will focus on the relationship between making and meaning, and will be presented in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. If you are one of the exceptional artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, technologists, scholars, strategists, design thinkers, and makers that make up Parsons and are interested in being considered for this…

Post Date: September 19, 2013

Made in the Lower East Side (miLES), an organization that works to open up underused storefronts for new and creative uses, is launching an exciting new project called Storefront Transformer. The project, which has just launched its Kickstarter campaign, will turn a vacant storefront in the Lower East Side into a pop-up community hub over the course of 7 weeks in November and December. The transformed space will be used in a variety of formats – a gallery, co-working space, museum, retail shop and more – and its programming is driven by community input. Re-imagining the future and uses of…

Post Date: August 21, 2013

Photo: Shigemasa Tanaka Students pursuing a BBA in Strategic Design and Management or a BFA in Product Design (at the School of Constructed Environments) are eligible to spend one semester at Chiba University. Participating students can take courses in the Department of Design Science in the Faculty of Engineering. Please contact your advisor for more information. Website: www.chiba-u.ac.jp/e/

Post Date: January 24, 2012

Christian Schneider joins Parsons the New School for Design Strategies as an Associate Professor of Design and Management. He has a background in strategic design consulting – he worked as a designer for Studio De Lucchi and as a project leader for IDEO, building and running comprehensive consulting programs. Guiding IDEO Milan he collaborated with Sottsass Associati and with DeLoitte Italy exploring synergies between design and business consulting in the late nineties. Clients include Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Ferrari, FSB and Siemens amongst others. As an academician, he has run Studio projects for the Polytechnic University in Milan (MFA Strategic Design),…

Post Date: April 19, 2011

A series of short presentations from students at Parsons, Stevens Academy, and Milano The New School for Urban Policy focus on what they have learned through the collaborative process and unique academic environment created by this program, which emphasizes civic engagement in constructed environments. As part of the group of Civic Engagement projects, an Empowerhouse looped slide show presentation will run during the Festival on a North-facing monitor in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Lobby. A full size, freestanding prototype with attached information graphics will be on the street during the Parsons Festival Block Party on 05/21. Date: May…

Post Date: February 2, 2011

Cities, Time, and Narratives AMPLIFIED – A panel discussion. Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 W. 13th St., 2nd Fl. All are invited to attend this special panel discussion about cities and their stories at Parsons The New School for Design: Cities, Time, and Narratives AMPLIFIED. Mediation and globalization have splintered the histories of cities. In their place we’ve received constantly changing, ever-appearing narratives with competing claims on the future. In Dubai Amplified Stephen Ramos reveals an opportunity to question, complicate, and interrogate these post-narratives. He portrays the…

Post Date: October 6, 2010

Symposium: 10/22/10 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Aronson Gallery, ground floor 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City Exhibit: October 22nd-25th The Visualizing Finance Lab at Parsons announces its upcoming symposium Visualizing Finance 1.0: Developing a Common Language. This symposium will bring together illustrators, educators, art directors, journalists and the financial community to develop a shared language and to explore the use of illustration and other visualizations to explain financial concepts. Events will include a gallery talk, a panel discussion, and collaborative studio work. Panelist: Lucas Bernard, Economist, City University of New York; Jonathan Jarvis, Interaction and Media Designer; Tim Robinson,…

Post Date: November 17, 2009

Director of the Foundation Program John Roach and Artist Käthe Wenzel recently closed their exhibition Robo-Improvisation Arena with a very successful childrens event. The exhibition also included two performances featuring a host of musicians, some of them from Parsons: Paul Corio (SDS, Foundation Instructor of 2D Integrated Design) Irene Fong (SDS, Graduate of Design and Management) Charles Goldman (SDS, Foundation, instructor of Lab and 3D Studio) Glendon Jones (AMT, BFA in CDT) John McQueeney Aaron Moore

Post Date: September 28, 2009

On September 30, The New School will present Tim Brown, chief executive officer and president of IDEO, a global design consultancy, in conversation with Bruce Nussbaum, BusinessWeek contributing editor and SDS visiting professor of Innovation and Design. Nussbaum and Brown will discuss the critical issues facing design and innovation today, on the occasion of the publication of Brown’s new book, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. September 30, 2009 from 6:00-8:00 p.m., at the David M. Schwartz Fashion Education Center at Parsons, 560 Seventh Avenue. The event is free.