Works
ALL OVER THE PLACE: PARSONS POSTERS FROM THE KELLEN DESIGN ARCHIVES
These posters — many designed by Parsons’ students and faculty — date primarily from the 1970s-1990s. The Kellen Archives holds materials that document the history and creative output of Parsons The New School for Design, its students, faculty, administrators, and …
THEASTER GATES: A WAY OF WORKING
The New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design present Theaster Gates: A Way of Working. Curated in collaboration with Theaster Gates, recipient …
Open Society Foundation Georgia Project
Open Society Foundation Georgia Project was a collaboration between Parsons Curatorial Design Research Lab professors & students, the Open Society Foundation Georgia and GeoAIR Residency Program. These 2-day intensive workshops in Tbilisi and Batumi focused on strengthening the Republic of …
Re-Imagining Orozco
A co-presentation of Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and The New School Art Collection, “Re-Imagining Orozco” celebrates José Clemente Orozco’s historic 1931 mural cycle A Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood. With the collaboration of Mexican-American artist …
Radical Shifts
In the 1960s, Parsons’ renowned Interior Design program underwent a dramatic overhaul. Renamed Environmental Design, the program broke through traditional disciplinary barriers, embarking on an ambitious pedagogical experiment and expanding the role of design as an agent of social transformation. …
Against All Odds Project: Ethics/ Aesthetics
As an interdisciplinary collaboration, Against All Odds explored ways that architects, artists and designers are devising innovative aesthetic strategies to tackle ecological, social and economic crises within their local environments.The project manifested in an academic conference featuring talks by Parsons …
