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MA Design Studies Students Self-publish Provocative Products: Provotypes and Provoprops
Alongside the exhibition by the same same, Otto von Busch and a of group students in the MA Design Studies program published a text companion…
MA HDCS Alumni Spotlight: PJ Carlino
Since graduating from the MA History of Decorative Arts and Design program in 2012, PJ Carlino has been hard at work completing a PhD program…
MA Design Studies Students Self-publish ‘Dark Designs: Critical Cases in Design in Dark Times’
The Spring 2016 semester at Parsons School of Design welcomed the production of self-published books by MA Design Studies students. Following Acts of Olympic Dissent…
Design Studies Alum Laura Belik’s Summer with Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program
Laura Belik, MA Design Studies ‘16, spent her summer in Washington, D.C. as a fellow for the Smithsonian Institute’s Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP). Created in…
MA Design Studies Students Self-publish ‘Acts of Olympic Dissent’
The Olympics have had a long history of contestation from their host cities, marginalized groups threatened by gentrification, and even the athletes who perform on…
William Perkins, Design Studies Alum Behind Pharrell’s Fan-Driven Website
May 2016 saw the launch of PharrellWilliams.com, created by MA Design Studies alum William Perkins and the team at boutique workshop Five Hundred, at which…
Integrative Studio 1
In Integrative Studio 1, students explore a range of visual, analytical, and making skills while working on projects that are collaborative and cross-disciplinary. The questions…
Space/Materiality
Launched by ADHT’s Insights, First Year Features is a multi-part series that aims to showcase the work produced by students currently enrolled in Parsons’ First-Year…
Time
Launched by ADHT’s Insights, First Year Features is a multi-part series that aims to showcase the work produced by students currently enrolled in Parsons’ First-Year…
Jilly Traganou’s Designing the Olympics: Book release and lecture in Rio, Brazil
Jilly Traganou, ADHT Associate Professor of Spatial Design Studies, is releasing her new book Designing the Olympics: Representation, Participation, Contestation. Professor Traganou, who has been…