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“Hope By Design” – ADHT’s Susan Yelavich and NSSR’s Malgorzata Bakalarz in Quartz Magazine
Malgorzata Bakalarz, PhD candidate at the New School for Social Research, joins forces with ADHT’s own Susan Yelavich, Associate Professor of Design Studies and director…
ADHT Lecturer Margaret Samu Receives Franklin Research Grant
ADHT lecturer Margaret Samu recently received a grant for research travel, the Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society (https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin). Samu will use it this June…
Announcing BIAS Issue 5: Fashion + Celebration
The MA Fashion Studies program is pleased to announce Issue 5 of BIAS: Journal of Dress Practice, titled “Fashion + Celebration.” Editors Alani Gaunt and…
Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative Announces Inaugural ‘Venture Lab’
Are you a student entrepreneur? In the Fall of 2017, The New School’s Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative (IEI) will launch an inaugural Venture Lab. If you are…
Tony Whitfield: (Self) Portraits: Two Meditations on the Queer Body at LGBT Center Paris-ÎdF
Tony Whitfield, Associate Professor of Art and Design Studies at Parsons ADHT, recently exhibited his work at the LGBT Center Paris-ÎdF in a show titled, Tony Whitfield:…
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…
Interview with Shana Agid, Ph.D. – “Making Possibilities as We Go”
Shana Agid is an artist, teacher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on relationships of power and difference, particularly regarding sexuality, race, and gender in…
Course Spotlight – Integrating Materials and Techniques: Metals, Sculptures & Woods in European Decorative Arts 1600-1850
In January 2017, the MA program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies was glad to welcome scholar and Victoria and Albert curator Tessa…