Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli
Congratulations to MAFS Alumni ’16, Joelle Firzli We are thrilled to announce that MAFS Alumni, Joelle Firzli, has been awarded the 2023 TSA Research Travel...
Design Studies MA
Drawing on the breadth and depth of expertise in design theory and practice at Parsons, this new Master of Arts program is an opportunity to explore design as both a field of scholarly research and an agent of social change.
December 15, 2017 adht
Students Launch Design Studies Wikipedia Page
Graduate students from the Fall 2017 course Writing for the Public Realm, taught by Susan Yelavich, joined forces to give the discipline of Design Studies…
December 11, 2017 adht
Professor Yelavich awarded a 2018 Bogliasco Fellowship
Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor of Design Studies, has been awarded a month’s residency at the Bogliasco Foundation in Bogliasco, Italy, located outside of the city…
August 18, 2017 adht
“A Sign of Resistance; A Symbol of Hope:” Parsons ADHT Featured in Design Observer
This protest poster by designer Luka Rayski has become the identity of the Polish protest movement over plans to put the supreme court and the rest…
May 11, 2017 Claudia Marina
Hacking Warsaw’s Palace of Culture
by Susan Yelavich, Director of the MA Design Studies program To all outward appearances, Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science would seem to be…
March 17, 2017 adht
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Komal Sharma, MA Design Studies ’15
Tell us about your career path from New Delhi to New York? Any advice for prospective Parsons ADHT students planning a move to the United…
March 2, 2017 adht
Making Home in Wounded Spaces featured on Archinect
Making Home in Wounded Spaces, an international symposium co-sponsored by the MA Design Studies program of ADHT, and its keynote speaker Lina Sergie Attar were…
February 3, 2017 adht
Alumni Spotlight: Salem Tsegaye, MA Design Studies ’14
Salem Tsegaye is Assistant Director of the Arts Research Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. There, she supports faculty research development, fosters…
February 3, 2017 adht
MA Design Studies 2017 Symposium: Making Home in Wounded Places
Reminder: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS open until Dec. 10th for Making Home in Wounded Places: Memory, Design, and the Spatial March 3 – 4, 2017 An…
December 12, 2016 adht
Jilly Traganou Awarded Fulbright Scholarship to Conduct Research on the Olympics and Design in Rio
Jilly Traganou is an architect and Associate Professor in Spatial Design Studies. Her recent publications include a book titled Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation…
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