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PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue

Part-time faculty member Jeffrey Rosenfeld took his Design for Aging Populations class on a tour of 305 West End Avenue, a nationally recognized Senior Residence....

A New Book by ADHT's Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their...

A New Book by ADHT's Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and...

A New Book by ADHT's Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll

Recently published by Routledge, Caroline Dionne’s book Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a...

Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities released October 22nd, 2023

Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities, a new book by Rory O’Dea, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Design at Parsons, was released on...

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Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon

By Danielle | Published: April 15, 2021

To celebrate the release of Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon, we are organizing a series of dialogues to further explore what “dark times”…

Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel

By Danielle | Published: December 16, 2020

Working in Fashion / Studies MA Fashion Studies Alumni & Career Panel In recognition of the launch of our MA Fashion Studies program…

Legacy with Sebastian Grant – November 19th, 2020

By Danielle | Published: November 11, 2020

Scholarship in the history of jewelry making in the 20th Century has often focused on a very narrow discourse based on primarily white European and…

Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion

By Danielle | Published: October 19, 2020

Fashion Studies Professor Francesca Granata was interviewed about her book Experimental Fashion and the concept of the grotesque body in fashion for Thrive Global. Read the full…

Professor Hazel Clark Comments on Senator Kamala Harris’ Style Choices

By Danielle | Published: October 9, 2020

Attribution: Gage Skidmore Professor Hazel Clark comments on Senator Kamala Harris’ style choices in a Huffpost article titled “What Kamala Harris’ Style Choices Say about her…

MAFS Faculty, Christina Moon, on JCPenny filing for Bankruptcy

By Danielle | Published: May 20, 2020

Listen to the conversation HERE Transcript Below SCOTT SIMON, HOST: J.C. Penney, a mainstay of the suburban mall, has filed for bankruptcy. The retailer began…

An Inside Look at BIAS Issue 7: Fashion + Death

By Danielle | Published: May 19, 2020

BIAS Issue 7: Fashion + Death Preview MA Fashion Studies Students and BIAS Co-Managing Editors, Nate Hoe and Maegan Stracy, give us an inside look…

VIDEO VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS by MAFS Students in Fashion Curation

By Danielle | Published: April 14, 2020

As a final project for the MA Fashion Studies program’s Fashion Curation course, led by Jessica Glasscock, students were asked to build a video virtual exhibition using widely…

The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium

By Danielle | Published: February 18, 2020

The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium, hosted by the Columbia College Chicago Fashion Studies Department, was held on Saturday February 15, 2020. American…

Curators’ Talk: Narcissister

By Danielle | Published: December 6, 2019

Exhibition Opening November 15th – Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference

By Danielle | Published: November 12, 2019

Come support your fellow faculty at the Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference exhibition at Parsons’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at 66 Fifth Avenue. This exhibition…

Guy Debord’s Game of War: A Conversation With Emmanuel Guy

By Danielle | Published: November 6, 2019

Thursday, November 14 6:00 pm Kellen Auditorium 66 5th Avenue We know Guy Debord (1931-1994) as a poet, filmmaker, artist, revolutionary theorist, editor and founder…

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PLDS 4075, Design for Aging Populations, visits 305 West End Avenue

A New Book by ADHT's Petya Andreeva | Fantastic Fauna From China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE

A New Book by ADHT's Jilly Traganou | Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories

A New Book by ADHT's Caroline Dionne | Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll

Robert Smithson, Land Art, and Speculative Realities released October 22nd, 2023

Program Archives: Programs

Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon

Working in Fashion / Studies: MAFS Alumni and Career Panel

Legacy with Sebastian Grant – November 19th, 2020

Francesca Granata on the Grotesque Body in Fashion

Professor Hazel Clark Comments on Senator Kamala Harris’ Style Choices

MAFS Faculty, Christina Moon, on JCPenny filing for Bankruptcy

An Inside Look at BIAS Issue 7: Fashion + Death

VIDEO VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS by MAFS Students in Fashion Curation

The American Everyday: Resistance, Revolution & Transformation symposium

Curators’ Talk: Narcissister

Exhibition Opening November 15th – Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference

Guy Debord’s Game of War: A Conversation With Emmanuel Guy

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