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Locating Fashion / Studies: Research Sites and Practices
This symposium marks the launch of the new MA Fashion Studies program in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons. Placing…
Supports / Surfaces
Rosemary O’Neill presented her paper, “The Installations of Supports/Surfaces: Focal Dispersion in a Collaborative Field,” as part of a panel, The Visual Arts in France…
Collective Creativity & L'École de Nice
Rosemary O’Neill wrote the preface for the book, L’École de Nice: Paroles d’Artistes, published by Verlhac Editions, Paris (2010). Entitled “École de Nice: Action artistique…
Call for Course Proposals for 2011/2012 Academic Year
The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons will consider proposals for new courses to be taught during the 2010-11 academic year…
My Name is Red, Read in Yelavich’s Design Fictions Seminar
It’s not everyday that a Parsons Senior Seminar prompts a television producer to pick up the phone. But that’s just what happened last November, when…
Faculty Summer Research
This summer David Brody will be conducting research for his new book Do Not Disturb: Design, Hotels, and Labor (under advance contract with the University…
Making Repairs, Consume Less
Image: photo by Antonio Ranesi This past July, Susan Yelavich wrote a two-part essay on the philosophy of repair entitled Making Repairs, Making (Environmental) Amends….
Migrant Tree: A Community Project
COMMUNITY SERVICE/EXTERNAL PARTNERS: On June 22nd, 2010 the Migrant Tree project was held at the community harden El Jardin Del Paraiso in the Lower East…
The Olympic Games: National Identities through Design
In her recent publications, Assistant Professor Jilly Traganou discusses the theme of national identity. By analyzing the Olympic games held in Athens, Tokyo, and Beijing,…
Release of short film, "Blindness"
Synopsis: The paths of Richard, a pathologically shy young man, and Karen, a beautiful blind woman, accidentally cross leading to an intense and tender yet…
"Together with the Communities in Athens," a talk by Dr. Eleni Tzirtzilaki
Dr. Eleni Tzirtzilaki gave a talk titled “Together with the Communities in Athens” on June 21st at Parsons. Eleni Tzirtzilaki is a collaborator on the “Routes and…
Reading Areas created by ADHT for The Parsons 2010 Show
For the Parsons 2010 Show, the School of Art and Design History and Theory has created two reading areas for the Five-School show. These reading…
