Keyword Archives: new genres

A Good Showing: Parsons Festival

Campus visitors last May were met with bright yellow decals and posters beckoning them to the inaugural Parsons Festival. The… read more

Andrea Lipps, MA ’08

“Design is everywhere, helping us interface with the world,” says Andrea Lipps. “Objects particularly resonate for me, encapsulating progress, memory,… read more

Ed Nacional, AAS ’09

Cranking out work for the oil industry at a Calgary, Alberta, graphics firm, Ed Nacional needed a new design exercise… read more

Trans-Mapping

MFA Transdisciplinary Design students recently unveiled Mapping Transdisciplinary Design, a 3D visualization of their field of study installed on the… read more

Visitors On Campus

Recent speakers on campus included designer MASSIMO VIGNELLI; artists LAWRENCE MALSTAF, LUIS CAMNITZER, JOHN EWING, CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS; designer MARTIN KALTENBRUNNER;… read more

Afrofuturistic Explorations

Intermedia Initiatives, directed by COCO FUSCO of Parsons’ School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT), received a grant from the… read more

Designed For Change

Four new graduate programs at Parsons are slated to launch in 2012. Students enrolled in the research-driven MA THEORIES OF… read more

New Faculty Hires

New faculty are bringing research and studio skills to campus. CHRISTOPHER CSIKSZENTMIHÁLYI, distinguished visiting professor of art and design research,… read more

Exhibitions At Parsons

Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center presented (RE)COLLECTION (June 16–Sept. 7), an exhibition for which curators SILVIA ROCCIOLO, ERIK STARK,… read more

Museum Pieces

The Parsons community lent its talents to Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, a recent… read more

Union Square Zoetrope

Six MFA DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY students, led by faculty members JOSH SPODEK and ANEZKA SEBEK, created Union Square in Motion,… read more