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The prompt for my capstone project in the BFA Interior Design program was to address the concept of “sustainable maintenance.” Sustainable maintenance in this context entails fostering social dynamics in which caretaking is shared within… Read More »Carmen Cordova, BFA Interior Design, Resistance

AdaptKids is a collection of adaptive clothing designed for children with sensory processing disorder (SPD). The creation of the garment designs was informed by thorough research, including interviews with occupational therapists (OTs) and several parents… Read More »Catherine Gray, BFA Integrated Design, AdaptKids

My project is a work of autofiction on disconnectedness, femininity, and changing family-scapes. The idea for A Lemon Falls from the Mango Tree started with an impulse, an urgent need to document the world as… Read More »Divyakshi Kedia, BFA Illustration, A Lemon Falls from the Mango Tree

Pulp is a project about using cardboard pulp as a product material and its potential to create compostable furniture pieces, primarily intended for constantly moving city dwellers. A significant portion of developing this project was… Read More »Leela Fideor, BFA Product Design, Pulp

My thesis is a concept for the Gallery Hotel. Located at the southwest corner of 20th Street and 10th Avenue in New York, City, this hotel offers a dynamic and cultural experience in the heart… Read More »Mohamad Ali Ezzeddine, AAS Interior Design, The Gallery Hotel

On November 20, 1970, 22 million people tuned in to BBC Television as 22-year-old Jennifer Hosten (Miss Grenada) became the first Afro-Caribbean to be crowned Miss World, a feat that challenged societal constructs of beauty… Read More »Iesha Coppin, MA Fashion Studies, A Duality of Identity: Capturing Caribbean Womanhood Image, Ideals, and Influence through Black Beauty, 1960–1970s

In this series of photographs, I explore and question agency, vulnerability, and intimacy as it appears in my own relationship, juxtaposed to what I witnessed while being raised by parents who could not demonstrate how… Read More »Madison Woiten, BFA Photography, Picking at the Scab Until it Bleeds

My thesis project, titled Woven Data, is a handmade coat, assembled from 42 woven squares, each of which represents a tracked data point about me. Each square is tied to a story that brings context… Read More »Isabel Anguera, BFA Design & Technology, Woven Data

With a focus on the social issue of parent-child communication in China, my project includes a set of workbooks that aids a positive communication process between teenagers or young adults and their parents who have… Read More »Youran Mao, BFA Communication Design, Listen, Speak.

Foragers for Peace is an interactive social and entertainment app designed to bring people together during a time of hardship and lack of unity. This app hopes to encourage players to interact with each other… Read More »Nicole Cerra, BFA Integrated Design, Foragers for Peace

My project is an exploration into public spaces as an extension of home. Drawing from the unifying concept of home as identified by immigrants, first-generation, and people of color, I examine how we might transform… Read More »Carol Nguyen, BBA Strategic Design & Management, Public Space, Power, and Prosperity

I am an interdisciplinary artist from China and my practice explores questions about mental health, body, and home. These questions touch various psychological diseases and childhood traumas that insinuate systemic oppression. In the process of… Read More »Di Wang, MFA Fine Arts, Breath

As an abstract, expressionistic painter, I created for my thesis a series of works evoke flesh as well as all the light our souls cannot see. My paintings express visual poetry of the “female,” composed… Read More »Akofa Norman, MFA Fine Arts, Lost for Words

Te Kalliste (Greek for “for the most beautiful”) tells my story of surviving sexual assault. In the form of a book, I weave photographs, poetry, and prose together through the lens of Greek mythology. With… Read More »Sydney Epstein, BFA Photography, Te Kalliste (For the Most Beautiful)

My thesis project is a concept for a community center for the residents of Flushing and Corona, New York. This community center will be a gathering place offering activities such as cooking, eating, learning, and… Read More »Ariana Medina, BFA Interior Design, Constellate: A Community Center for the Urban Dwellers of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park

“Meant to Be Held, but Why?” is an exploration of personal ritual through a set of tools to help the user process grief. Many cultures do not sufficiently validate or ritualize the grief caused by… Read More »Hadley Feingold, MFA Industrial Design, Meant to Be Held, but Why?

Homeokin is a framework for understanding notions of queer kinship. It is a singular affinity—a way of relating and being—that is distinctly queer and equal to kinship. It does not necessitate a distinction or qualification… Read More »Blake Roberts, MA Theories of Urban Practice, Homeokin in Practice: Building Queer Futurity

In my thesis, I use an ethnographic approach to examine online fashion consumption. The thesis gives insight into the digital processes and affective experience of online shopping and explores the way fashion e-commerce influences the… Read More »Bae-Perng Kuo, MA Fashion Studies, Digital Fashioning of the Material Body

My project proposes a public space design strategy for Chinatown that will allow end users to adjust the physical design to meet their specific site and needs. Located on the sidewalk on Grand Street, the… Read More »Camille Jao, BFA Interior Design, ASSEMBLE: A Recipe for Public Social Engagement

My project consists of visual graphics and the story of an astronaut who explores an uncharted planet that sends wormholes to locations where it suspects life exists in order to consume other planets. Curiosity has… Read More »Ani Padinjare, BFA Illustration, Medusa

My project is about designing a future workspace for essential workers and looking at the way in which society considers the safety and value of this workforce within our civic fabric. The role of the… Read More »Susan Lee, AAS Interior Design, Designing for Future Workspace

Asked by Kids is a global hub of arts-based educational children’s resources that are free, bilingual, and open source. Our goal is to make information more digestible for kids globally by co-creating resources inspired by… Read More »Ana Holschuh and Julie Vantrease, BFA Integrated Design, Asked by Kids

My thesis project, titled Sensuous Dining, explores inventive ways of enjoying the food we love. It is composed of four objects, designed to remedy the modern-day disconnection with our senses.

For my thesis project, I’m creating a playful and educational experience to help users build a stronger connection with plants. Named Kido, it includes a smart planter system and a smartphone app.

Using literature review, participatory mapping, digital cartography, and illustration, our project proposes generative rubrics for analyzing and synthesizing Black reparations campaigns as they change shape from the national level to more localized settings. In 2019,… Read More »Jason Brown, Dino Robinson, MS Design and Urban Ecologies, Re

This book explores what forms self-care can take and how we can turn it into a holistic lifestyle that promotes health and happiness. Beyond taking care of our minds and bodies, this book explores the… Read More »Mirabelle Kunz, BFA Integrated Design, Rosy Living – A Guide to Caring for Your Mind, Body & Earth

My project uses the recent COVID-19 crisis as a research context for exploring the notion that post-quarantine urbanism is threatening the existence of anonymous spaces. Due to its social productivity, urban anonymity and anonymous social… Read More »Dalia Amellal, MA Theories of Urban Practice, Towards Urban Anonymity

My thesis is a concept for the design of a corporate headquarters that places an emphasis on the representation of food delivery workers. The rapidly increasing demands to complete more deliveries in less time has… Read More »Yingfei Jiang, AAS Interior Design, Design for Food Delivery Workers in China

My thesis project is the creation of Heale, a line of sensorial jewelry pieces that provides temporary relief to sexually traumatized survivors through pressure, texture, and fidgeting. Most people think healing from sexual trauma is… Read More »Carly Bennett, MFA Industrial Design, Heale

My project is a series of drawings and illustrations that depict the characters Leela, Bee, and Squid and their experiences and life growing up in suburban New Jersey during the early 2000s, the heyday of… Read More »Gina Beneduci, BFA Illustration, The 210

From a young age, we’re taught how to tie our shoelaces. It’s a simple everyday task that we don’t think twice about. But what if you could only use one hand for the rest of… Read More »Sarah Lam, BFA Product Design, The Lacer

Chitchat is a space for remote team members to gather freely throughout the day, away from where work is being done. When taking a break from work, users can hop into virtual common rooms that… Read More »Regina La O’, MPS Communication Design, Chitchat – Connecting Remote Teams

In what ways do we communicate with one another through what we grow?

Lune, my project, is a series of open-source 3D-printed water bottle attachments designed to help homeless women maintain their personal hygiene in public bathrooms. Aiming to address menstruation, showering, and hair-washing needs — the three… Read More »Yanzhi Lai, BFA Product Design, Lune

Reading news is a way to stay informed and connect to the world and to one another. Yet perceiving news is warped into a convoluted experience that is constrained and shaped by news providers (content)… Read More »Ruimin Ma, MFA Transdisciplinary Design, Pipeline News

(Pathway: Collection/All-Gender) Based on my personal experience growing up as a Chinese immigrant in a traditional entrepreneurial family running a Chinese restaurant in the western world, I created my collection, titled in Transient, as a… Read More »Yayi Chen, BFA Fashion Design, In Transient

My Mother’s Daughter is a photographic series about my relationship with my mother and the deeper complexity within our dynamic. Through polaroid snapshots, I examine the story of our codependency, the blurred role of mother… Read More »Marissa Phipps, BFA Photography, My Mother’s Daughter

Ekistics, the science of human settlements, has been a pervasive and well-established foundation of human civilization since agriculture. The dominance of humanity over the natural world has largely left this science in a perpetual, unchanging… Read More »Anthony Vesprini, Eric Hu, and Nalin Chahal, BFA Architectural Design, Flood Points

This project uses machine learning emotion classification processes in order to create emotionally representative data from Project Gutenberg public domain novels. The data is then fitted into a visualization that is further rendered into book covers… Read More »Tiffany France, MS Data Visualization, Emotion Driven Literary Bindings

Unlike the landmass, divided by many borders, most of our maps and mental images represent the sea free of delimitations. This, however, does not depict reality. A large part of the ocean is divided into… Read More »Robin Coenen, MS Data Visualization, Visualizing Maritime Claims at the UN

As a multisport athlete, I am interested in exploring bodily awareness or what is also known as proprioception. The goal of my project is to give feedback for chain-of-motion movements in order to better understand… Read More »Jesse Birdsall, MFA Industrial Design, Momentum: Kinaesthetic Clothing

My thesis aims to examine Rei Kawakubo’s fashion practices in her spatial presentations — from the materialization of concepts to retail design along with an extension to the curation of gallery spaces. Dover Street Market,… Read More »Noel Yeong-An Liao, MA Fashion Studies, From Retail Design to Curatorial Praxis

In 2016, a black woman’s story about a Dominican Salon sneaking relaxer into her shampoo in order to make her hair more manageable went viral. The political climate of 2016 made space for movements addressing… Read More »Sabrina Paulino, BBA Strategic Design & Management, Legacy of the Dominican Blowout

– Exploring Collaborative Storytelling to Rediscover Little Pakistan. Spatializing — Situating — Storying: These processes act in simultaneity, engendering an act, an object, a thing into being. Neither one precedes nor supersedes the other, but… Read More »Sana Akram, MS Design & Urban Ecologies, ENGENDER(ING) IMMIGRANT SPACE

This group (team name: The Shapers), placed first in the 2020 Rotman Design Challenge: Brendan Raftery, Yasmine Abuzeid, Selina Tedesco, Silvia Garuti, Andrea Noble, Bjorg Flygenring Finnbogadottir. In the current system of aid, relief is… Read More »The Shapers, MS Strategic Design & Management, Earshot

Are you really living if everything has already been decided for you? No. The path to happiness is inevitably shadowed by the consequences of being human.

Reading news is a way to stay informed and connect to the world and to one another. Yet perceiving news is warped into a convoluted experience that is constrained and shaped by news providers (content)… Read More »Ruimin Ma, MFA Transdisciplinary Design, Pipeline News

Unlike Western medicine and healthcare practices, traditional Thai medicine is heavily influenced by the mind-body connection and treatment that combines natural elements like herbal medicine, yoga, meditation, and Thai massage.

Parallel attests to the importance of designing inclusive spaces within luxury developments in order to preserve the city’s rich history.

In my project, Unseers are imaginary beings who are perpetually suspended in an inward-facing state of psychedelic meditation.

My project is a design proposal for Fairweather NYC, which makes rain gear and waterproof accessories so we can thrive outdoors no matter how wet it is.

This project examines my hybrid intersectional identity as I navigate my relationship to society and the Earth.

My project, titled Wandering Home, is a textile installation inspired by the lifestyles and old tales of a kind of mythical community of elderly wanderers who collect things as they travel and create their own… Read More »Liuxu Luo, MFA Textiles, Wandering Home

My project is Strauss X Levi’s, a design for a boutique hotel in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village for misfits and artists.

“Lys” (/loos/) is the Danish word for both candle and light. My thesis project, called Lys, is a small flameless electric light cast in wax and suggesting the glow of candles.

The flow of geometrical forms and densities across layers demonstrate the narrative of a moment.

“Let the World Slip, We Shall Ne’er be Younger:” Dress Practices and Subcultural Expression at the New York Renaissance Faire

With an eye on sustainability and a desire to have an impact on the fashion world through materials innovation, I combined handcraft and high tech.

A key component of the First Year course, Integrative Seminar 1, is to introduce students to the New School’s Archives. This lesson is meant to demonstrate how to conduct archival research, and how to find… Read More »The New School Through 100 Archival Objects

My project explores the politics of the majlis, a traditional men’s only sphere that is leveraged to create power over women within the MENA region. Operating against the gender-exclusive program, my project reframes the majlis… Read More »Hanouf Al-Faheid, BFA Interior Design, Our Majlis

Your data privacy matters. Whether it may be websites tracking your every click, pharmaceutical companies selling your eating habits to your health insurance provider, or retail companies selling you baby bottles even before your parents… Read More »Shivam Sinha, BFA Communication Design, Data Aeternum

My main goal through this project was to create a space that would provide an opportunity for the locals of Ban San Si to practice the art of Thai medicine, especially since the village does… Read More »Sujon Ishaq, BFA Architectural Design, The Thai Wellness Centre

The aerospace industry is not only imminently sending people to the Moon and Mars, but also actively pursuing the expansion of human presence in the solar system. The goal is not only to visit, but… Read More »Ana Emilia Hernandez, MFA Industrial Design, Moon Modules

This year has presented many challenges, which have often interfered with productivity. Maria Carla Genovesi (BFA Fine Arts ’21) and Kade Clemensen took matters into their own hands, and decided to turn a lockdown into… Read More »It’s not a gallery

My thesis project, Tending to Self, attempts to alleviate stress by creating a space for users to take a break and engage in a variety of tactile, analog activities. There are seven kits, one for… Read More »Mackenzie Drummond, BFA Integrated Design, Tending to Self

After leaving my country, Venezuela, I am confronted with the impossibility of return. My assembled drawing and paintings are the medium in which I explore how I remember sites, and how I visualize forgotten or… Read More »Valeria Mancera, BFA Fine Arts, On Longing and Painting

As the climate continues to warm, and extreme weather events are more frequent and stronger, New York City must adapt to these changes to maintain the health and well-being of its population. Green roofs are… Read More »Nour Zein, MS Data Viz, Greening From the Rooftops

The Nuanced Topia challenges reclamation and development by the introduction of a hybrid junction for the creation of a hyper-micro immigrant community within the 74-Roosevelt Ave Station. The pervasive framework hinges on spaces of opportunities… Read More »Tommy Yang, M.Arch, The Nuanced -Topia

Gentrification is when an influx of middle or high-income families move into an area typically dominated by those of low-income. As a result, this alters the neighborhood and its makeup by catering to the more… Read More »Eleni Mentis, BFA CD, Gentrification in New York City

Moola is an educational family banking tool designed for young people. It encourages families to learn together, so parents can actively educate, motivate and empower their kids financially. Moola allows parents to teach children the… Read More »Rajlaxmi Jain, MPS CD, Moola – Allowance Manager

A collective reflection and virtual convening celebrating the future of School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design Class of 2020.

INTERVAL is a family of three objects that remove the cell phone from the center of the user’s life. They accept all different sizes of phones. The user experience is designed within the context of… Read More »Carl Liyu Shen, MFA Industrial Design, INTERVAL

A Guilty Pleasure aims to visualize how the monoculture cocoa industry is driving deforestation in the Ivory Coast. By drawing people’s attention to this issue, this thesis project reveals the bittersweet price we’ve paid for… Read More »Xingwei Huang, MS Data Visualization, A Guilty Pleasure

Mapping Misogyny includes a book that examines the origins and effects of gender oppression in South Africa. It addresses abuse and violence against women that manifest as intrinsic, pervasive aspects of gender relations. Accompanying the… Read More »Kayla Van Der Byl, BFA Communication Design, Mapping Misogyny

I have integrated my textiles into sculptural forms. Forms grow from my love of geometry. “Darkness” had sections of black knit material, stitched together and stretched within a spherical Platonic form. The piece changes as… Read More »Jeremy Ripley, MFA Textiles, Morpho + Genesis

Playful Culture is based on the premise that objects of play can inform and engage audiences with culture by facilitating intimate experiences, and that collaborating with artisans throughout the process can further promote representation and… Read More »Thalia Rondon Raffo, BFA Integrated Design, Playful Culture

“For a Friend” explores how the notion of self care is a highly individualized pursuit. These pieces highlight how there is no hard and fast way to perform acts of self care. Rather, my characters… Read More »Bernice Ho, BFA Illustration, For A Friend

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have been working on a powerful, collaborative initiative with Parsons Professor Andrea Geyer and Edmund Langdell who is one of my Fashion Systems & Society students and… Read More »C.L.Ho.W Team / Collaboration of Faculty, Students, and Alumni

The Dangerous Pandemic in the Social Sciences Article by Koray Caliskan (Assoc. Dir. of MS Strategic Design & Management) and Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh) on the social sciences post-coronavirus.

Grace Jun (Asst. Prof. of Fashion and CEO of Open Style Lab) develops pattern and full video tutorial for DIY reusable, inclusive face mask made of upcycled materials found at home.

by Dr. Manuel Hernandez (MS Strategic Design Management ‘19) in Healthcare Design Mag.

Listen to the all-new podcast created by MPS Fashion Management students and faculty about COVID-19 and potential opportunities to rethink retail’s future.