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Dining + Design: A Conversation with David Chang and Designer Anwar Mekhayech Date: June 10, 2013 6:00 p.m. Although we often focus on the food and the service, restaurant dining is really the combination of food, service and environment. That's where architecture and design come in. Design sets expectations, influences moods, engenders feelings that are as much the part of the restaurant experience as where the ingredients are sourced and how the wine pairs. Good design adds to the comfort, satiety, and overall excitement of a great restaurant experience in a synergistic way.The Food Studies Program ... |
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Parsons Paris and Intramuros Present Transcending The Disciplines: A Conversation on the Future of Design Practice Date: June 4, 2013 5:00 p.m. The boundaries between the disciplines are breaking down. People who were trained in industrial design and other fields are often working today in ways that are blurring the traditional boundaries. Moving from one complex problem to another, understanding what the social and technological causes are, and knowing how to address them, requires that designers develop not only skills of making and of craft, but also skills of thinking and analysis—and being able to bring theory and practice together... |
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Pecha Kucha Presentations: BFA Illustration Date: May 22, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The senior class present their thesis projects in a series of slide talks, each three to five minutes long and followed by a short Q&A. Faculty members facilitate discussion of students’ ideas and work... |
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BFA Illustration Installation Space Date: May 22, 2013 - May 24, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The installation space features installations and gallery-style exhibitions showcasing the range of work by senior Illustration students... |
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Parsons Fashion Show Date: May 22, 2013 12:00 p.m. The School of Fashion presents a runway show of top collections by the graduating BFA Fashion Design class. The annual presentation has helped launch the careers of some of the school’s most prominent alumni, including Marc Jacobs ’84 and Jack McCollough ’02 and Lazaro Hernandez ’02 of Proenza Schouler... |
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Book Release Party: BFA Illustration Date: May 22, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. BFA Illustration’s senior thesis class releases its first Illustration Annual, featuring works by all the class members. The book contains images and objects representing the many facets of the industry. ... |
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Animation Screenings: BFA Illustration Date: May 22, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Animation in the School of Art, Media, and Technology includes a range of time-based media, from traditional animation to more experimental works. Students in the senior class show off their unique takes on the genre in this screening of time-based animation works... |
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Thesis Screening: BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology Date: May 21, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology seniors present narrative shorts and documentary, animation, kinetic type, sound, performance, and experimental videos... |
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BFA Photography Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 - May 26, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design and Milk Studios present an exhibition of photographs, installations, video projections, and magazine and book displays by graduating students in Parsons’ BFA Photography program... |
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BFA Fine Arts Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. This exhibition showcases the diverse work of the program’s 48 graduating seniors, including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, video, and installation... |
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School of Constructed Environments Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. This exhibition presents drawings, models, and prototypes created by graduating students of the Architecture, Interior Design, Lighting Design, and Product Design programs at Parsons. ... |
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Design and Management Symposium: The Integration of Design and Research Date: May 21, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Much of the work produced by students in the Design and Management program concerns strategy, and many students have found interesting ways to integrate research and design methodology in producing their work. In this panel discussion, students explore the innovative approaches they have used to integrate research and design processes in their work... |
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Demo Day: BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology Date: May 21, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Students present their thesis work together in a setting like an industry fair, enabling visitors to interact with projects and see demonstrations... |
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Thesis Book and Web Preview: BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology Date: May 21, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. See the work of more than 100 graduating BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology students. Projects in a variety of media address practical and theoretical concerns and reflect students’ optimism about the possibilities of design in a global context... |
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Thesis Installations: BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology Date: May 21, 2013 - May 24, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. See installations and experiential projects by graduating seniors that explore a range of technologies and constructions in space... |
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Limited Edition Showcase: School of Art, Media, and Technology Pop-Up Shop Date: May 21, 2013 - May 24, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Take home a limited edition work from students graduating from the School of Art, Media and Technology... |
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Thesis Book and Web Launch Party: BFA Communication Design and BFA Design and Technology Date: May 21, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Join students and faculty for the opening celebration of the print and digital projects showcased in the Thesis Book and Web Preview event. Projects in a variety of media address practical and theoretical concerns and reflect students’ optimism about the possibilities of design in a global context... |
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Opening Reception: BFA Photography Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design and Milk Studios present an exhibition of photographs, installations, video projections, and magazine and book displays by graduating students in Parsons’ BFA Photography program... |
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Opening Reception: BFA Fine Arts Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This exhibition showcases the diverse work of the program’s 48 graduating seniors, including painting, sculpture, performance, photography, video, and installation... |
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Opening Reception: School of Constructed Environments Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. This exhibition presents drawings, models, and prototypes created by graduating students of the Architecture, Interior Design, Lighting Design, and Product Design programs at Parsons... |
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Opening Reception: MFA Photography Exhibition Date: May 21, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This exhibition features work by students in the MFA Photography program, which seeks to redefine the creative role of the photographer in contemporary culture. The work of these emerging artists extends the boundaries of the medium and the limits of creative vision... |
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Dining + Design: A Conversation with Andrew Carmellini and Architects, Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch Date: May 20, 2013 6:00 p.m. Although we often focus on the food and the service, restaurant dining is really the combination of food, service and environment. That's where architecture and design come in. Design sets expectations, influences moods, engenders feelings that are as much the part of the restaurant experience as where the ingredients are sourced and how the wine pairs. Good design adds to the comfort, satiety, and overall excitement of a great restaurant experience in a synergistic way. The Food Studies Program... |
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INTERACT 2013: A Forum on Civic Engagement and Sustainable Partnership Date: May 18, 2013 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. INTERACT 2013 is an all-day forum that examines co-creation as a central factor in developing successful relationships with external partners. Participants explore ways to structure and facilitate cross-divisional, multiyear collaborations to make them effective in reaching social justice goals. ... |
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WantedDesign Date: May 18, 2013 - May 20, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. For a second year, WantedDesign will host a transatlantic student design challenge, which will take place in real time at the event. Led by Parsons faculty members Mark Bechtel and Christian Schneider, students representing diverse design disciplines will work on teams to develop new products and systems that address one of the most valuable resources on the planet, our water supply, in the face of population explosions in megacities such as New York... |
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MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Date: May 18, 2013 - May 25, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The MFA Fine Arts program at Parsons is proud to present its 2013 thesis exhibition. The MFA in Fine Arts is a two-year program in which emerging artists develop the formal, intellectual, and conceptual dimensions of their work. This year’s exhibition is curated by Wendy Vogel and Jess Wilcox... |
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Parsons Scholars Presentations and Reception Date: May 18, 2013 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Parsons Scholars program is a three-year college preparatory program in art and design for high school students in New York City public schools. Students present senior capstone projects produced as part of Sandy Storyline, a community-generated narrative of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath aimed at building a more just and sustainable future... |
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Wasteless: A Collaboration with Poltrona Frau Date: May 18, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design and Poltrona Frau, the world’s leading producer of luxury home furnishings, present an exhibition of work by Parsons product design students under the direction of faculty member and noted designer Andrea Ruggiero. Students were challenged to design and develop new objects using leather scraps collected over a period of two months at Poltrona Frau’s factory in Tolentino, Italy... |
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From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics Date: May 17, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center assesses the unique role art plays at the intersection of politics and civic life. This daylong conference addresses the changing cultural and political landscape shaped by new global social movements, and provokes responses and reflections from an international group of artists, activists, and scholars.While the last twenty years have been marked by a general interest in the convergence of art and politics, the current moment is being character... |
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MFA Design and Technology Symposium Date: May 17, 2013 - May 18, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Please visit mfadt.parsons.edu for event schedule and details... |
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five sixty 7th Exhibition Date: May 17, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. The School of Fashion at Parsons presents an exhibition of thesis work from a range of fashion disciplines, including menswear, womenswear, childrenswear, accessories, and multimedia installations... |
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Temporary Environments Date: May 17, 2013 - May 20, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. On the floor of Wanted Design, Parsons students will create an experimental installation that explores paper as a material for the built environment. Led by architects Moorhead & Moorhead and sponsored by Homasote, the installation will be constructed of Homasote’s signature recycled fiberboard... |
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Portfolio Strategies Student Presentations - Day 2 Date: May 17, 2013 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Short narrative portfolios are presented by undergraduate students in the School of Design Strategies’ Design and Management, Integrated Design, and Environmental Studies programs... |
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Opening Reception: five sixty 7th Exhibition Date: May 17, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The School of Fashion at Parsons presents an exhibition of thesis work from a range of fashion disciplines, including menswear, womenswear, childrenswear, accessories, and multimedia installations... |
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Opening Reception: MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Date: May 17, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The MFA Fine Arts program at Parsons is proud to present its 2013 thesis exhibition. The MFA in Fine Arts is a two-year program in which emerging artists develop the formal, intellectual, and conceptual dimensions of their work. This year’s exhibition is curated by Wendy Vogel and Jess Wilcox... |
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School of Art and Design History and Theory Graduate Symposium Date: May 16, 2013 - May 17, 2013 10:30 a.m. This symposium explores a range of student research on decorative arts and design history, fashion studies and history, and design studies and theory. The event features scholars from the MA History of Decorative Arts and Design, MA Fashion Studies, and MA Design Studies programs in the School of Art and Design History and Theory... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series May 16, 2013(1) Date: May 16, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. This panel will feature candid conversations with leading design entrepreneurs who have founded startups, channeled personal passions into self-made careers, and taken risks to do what they love. Join us as we discuss whether the client-service model is a thing of the past and discover how these pioneers push the definition of design... |
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First Issue Launch Party for BIAS: Fashion + Healing, Journal of Dress Practice Date: May 16, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The Dress Practice Collective hosts a launch party for their first issue of BIAS: Journal of Dress Practice... |
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Concurrent Urbanities Date: May 16, 2013 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Remapping the relationships between urban practices and design... |
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MS Strategic Design and Management Studio Exhibitions and Presentations - Day 2 Date: May 15, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Exhibition and presentations of work by Strategic Design and Management students. Tuesday, May 14, 9:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.Wednesday, May 15, 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. This event is part of Parsons Festival 2013: www.newschool.edu/parsons/festival.View Larger Map... |
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MS Strategic Design and Management Studio Exhibitions and Presentations - Day 1 Date: May 14, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Exhibition and presentations of work by Strategic Design and Management students... |
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MFA Fashion Design and Society Exhibition Date: May 14, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. This exhibition presents work by the graduating class of Parsons’ recently launched MFA in Fashion Design and Society, a selective graduate program for emerging designers initiated and supported by alumna Donna Karan... |
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In Celebration of the Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards Date: May 14, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. This event is open to The New School community only. This is not a public event.To commemorate the 2012–13 awardees and the artwork that inspired their winning pieces, a gathering will take place with honorary guest and artist Hans Haacke. His piece Helmsboro Country (dyptych), 1990, part of the Vera List Art Collection, is the subject of the critical response essay "Helmsboro Country and Me" by Thomas J. Ashley, New School for Public Engagement, Institute for Retired Professionals. Gathering in... |
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Parsons Scholars Exhibition Date: May 13, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Parsons Scholars program is a three-year college preparatory program in art and design for high school students in New York City public schools. This exhibit showcases work created by students at each level of the program, spanning a variety of art and design disciplines. ... |
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MFA Photography Exhibition Date: May 13, 2013 - May 24, 2013 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. This exhibition features work by students in the MFA Photography program, which seeks to redefine the creative role of the photographer in contemporary culture. The work of these emerging artists extends the boundaries of the medium and the limits of creative vision... |
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Opening Reception: Flat-Pack and Micro-Manufacturing Exhibition Date: May 13, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Parsons’ BFA Product Design program presents an exhibition highlighting two key issues within contemporary design... |
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Transdisciplinary Design Exhibition and Presentations Date: May 12, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. Exhibition and presentations of work by Transdisciplinary Design students.This event is part of Parsons Festival 2013: www.newschool.edu/parsons/festival.View Larger Map... |
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Urban Design Exhibition and Presentations Date: May 11, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. Exhibition and presentations of work by Urban Design students... |
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Alumni Day @ The New School 2013 Date: May 11, 2013 11:00 a.m. All New School alumni are invited back to campus for a day of programs and events highlighting the best of the university. Alumni should visit the website for full information and to register online... |
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gadgITERATION Date: May 11, 2013 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Turn trash to treasure! Experiment with interaction design! Children ages 11–13 and their families are invited to this fun multigenerational workshop. Come tinker with electronics using a simple, safe device called The Noisemaker... |
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CreativeMornings @ Parsons: Seth Godin Date: May 10, 2013 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series, dubbed “TED for the rest of us” and founded by designer Tina Roth Eisenberg of the design blog swissmiss. CreativeMornings comes to Parsons The New School for Design for its May event, where best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin will speak on the theme of "Backwards," as part of Parsons Festival 2013. Seth Godin's latest book, The Icarus Deception, takes a look at the end of the industrial economy and what happens next, challenging readers to approach their work as a form of art... |
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Portfolio Strategies Student Presentations - Day 1 Date: May 10, 2013 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Short narrative portfolios are presented by undergraduate students in the School of Design Strategies’ Design and Management, Integrated Design, and Environmental Studies programs... |
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Transdisciplinary Design Workshop Date: May 10, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Graduate students and outside experts explore aspects of transdisciplinary design. This event is presented in conjunction with the School of Design Strategies exhibition, which includes thesis projects by graduating students in the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program... |
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School of Design Strategies Exhibition Date: May 10, 2013 - May 24, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. How can we use design thinking to promote change, to foster creativity, to envision the new urban? How can design be employed to improve or reimagine established systems, from fashion to health care to housing? In light of the diverse challenges facing modern societies, how can we use all of our abilities to effect change? The School of Design Strategies confronts questions like these through rigorous research and application. This exhibition presents outcomes of these practices... |
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Fashion Career Day Date: May 10, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events page at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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Opening Reception: School of Design Strategies Exhibition Date: May 10, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. How can we use design thinking to promote change, to foster creativity, to envision the new urban? How can design be employed to improve or reimagine established systems, from fashion to health care to housing? In light of the diverse challenges facing modern societies, how can we use all of our abilities to effect change? The School of Design Strategies confronts questions like these through rigorous research and application. This exhibition presents outcomes of these practices... |
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Fashion Design Practice and Research in Latin America Date: May 10, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. A roundtable discussion that aims to explore diverse Latin American Fashion Design systems... |
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School of Art, Media, and Technology Annual 2013: Crossing Screens Date: May 9, 2013 - May 24, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The School of Art, Media, and Technology Annual 2013, Crossing Screens, is a selection of art and design work addressing compelling issues through a broad range of practice by the 2013 senior class at Parsons' School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT). Meet the new generation of artists and designers through this multimedia exhibition... |
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Opening Reception and Screenings: School of Art, Media, and Technology Annual 2013 Date: May 9, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The School of Art, Media, and Technology Annual 2013, Crossing Screens, is a selection of art and design work addressing compelling issues through a broad range of practice by the 2013 senior class at Parsons' School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT). Meet the new generation of artists and designers through this multimedia exhibition... |
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MFA Design and Technology Exhibition Date: May 8, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. The MFA Design and Technology thesis exhibition features installations and performances, objects and apps, games and video, and interactive experiences that explore the dynamic role of technology in our lives... |
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Ugo Rondinone Date: May 8, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. This spring, Public Art Fund brings together a series of talks by three distinctive artists whose work transforms the boundaries of objects and space in the public realm. Whether through the scale of forms that shrink or expand in response to a specific context, or through the permeability of concepts, ideas and emotions that exist in their work, each of the artists showcased in this series explores the ways in which art has the ability to alter our experience of public space and the natur... |
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Opening Reception: MFA Design and Technology Exhibition Date: May 8, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. The MFA Design and Technology thesis exhibition features installations and performances, objects and apps, games and video, and interactive experiences that explore the dynamic role of technology in our lives... |
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Flat-Pack and Micro-Manufacturing Exhibition Date: May 7, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Parsons’ BFA Product Design program presents an exhibition highlighting two key issues within contemporary design... |
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Parsons Festival 2013 Date: May 5, 2013 - May 24, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Established to showcase the creativity, innovation, and scholarship of Parsons students in a diverse range of disciplines, the Parsons Festival offers an array of exciting thesis exhibitions, presentations, installations, workshops, symposia, gallery openings, and special events... |
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The Future of Orchestral Garments Date: May 5, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Presented by Parsons The New School for Design in collaboration with Mannes College The New School for Music and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra... |
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Social Justice and the City Date: May 4, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Graduate Program in Design and Urban Ecologies Presents: Social Justice and the City... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Fia Backström Date: May 1, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Strategic Design & Social Innovation Date: April 28, 2013 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Strategic Design & Social Innovation: A Conversation with Helsinki Design Lab ... |
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Day 2- Design and Mobility: The Twenty-Second Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design Date: April 27, 2013 11:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. The Twenty-Second Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design will focus on Design and Mobility and consist of student and faculty presentations from the U.S. and the U.K... |
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Day 1-Design and Mobility: The Twenty-Second Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design Date: April 26, 2013 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Mobility is this year's theme at the Decorative Arts and Design Graduate Student Symposium which will include presentations from graduate students and faculty from various U.S. and U.K. institutions... |
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The New School Green Fund Presentations Date: April 25, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Students and faculty present their innovative sustainability projects... |
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b the next Date: April 25, 2013 6:00 p.m. An evening of design and shopping to benefit the next generation of designers, the Parsons Scholars.See their work and meet renowned Parsons alumni, including:Mara HoffmanAlejandro IngelmoParke Lutter and Ronen Jehezkel of Parke & RonenTracy ReeseNarciso RodriguezLela RoseKay UngerCarmen Marc ValvoEdward Wilkerson of Lafayette 148Bob Williams of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williamsas well as Tim Gunn of Project Runway, who will be signing copies of his book Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible.About The Parsons Sch... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Pedro Lasch Date: April 24, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Dining + Design: A Conversation with Dan Barber, Laureen Barber and Architect, Peter Guzy Date: April 22, 2013 6:00 p.m. Although we often focus on the food and the service, restaurant dining is really the combination of food, service and environment. That's where architecture and design come in. Design sets expectations, influences moods, engenders feelings that are as much the part of the restaurant experience as where the ingredients are sourced and how the wine pairs. Good design adds to the comfort, satiety, and overall excitement of a great restaurant experience in a synergistic way. The Food Studies Program... |
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Who Builds Your Architecture? Part 2: Sustainability and Sustaining Human Life Date: April 22, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. "Workers' rights and safety should be a pivotal point for any sustainability discussion: the environment is not just the air, ground, and water, but the people with whom we work and live."—Ann Lui, "Sustainability of Workers' Rights," Archinect, May 2011Sustainability means to support, uphold, and endure. This roundtable discussion with professionals, scholars, students, and the audience examines current issues in ethics, in particular the links between construction practices and workers' rights... |
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The New School's Earth Week 2013 Date: April 20, 2013 - April 30, 2013 4:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The New School taps into the energy of the environmental movement catalyzed by the first Earth Day 43 years ago... |
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Your Food Is On Its Way - Presentation and Discussion Date: April 19, 2013 12:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Your Food Is On Its Way is a project by artist Annie Shaw on the livelihoods of delivery men in the food industry. Food delivery is part of the fabric of life in New York City, a service provided by a transient workforce that remains largely invisible to the public it serves. The very phrase "your food is on its way" omits any reference to the person delivering the meals. This project exposes the material reality of four delivery men's physical labor through the tools they use, the routes they t... |
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Megapolis Day 1 Date: April 19, 2013 2:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. The New School for Public Engagement’s School of Media Studies, Eugene Lang College and MEGAPOLIS are collaborating on a weekend-long festival dedicated to the craft of do-it-yourself (DIY) audio creation. MEGAPOLIS 2013 will be held April 19-21, 2013 at The New School with support from performance and creative venues citywide.The mission of the MEGAPOLIS Festival is to provide a forum for artists, documentarians, musicians, and fans to come together to share secrets on producing and presenting... |
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Interboro Partners Lecture Date: April 18, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Interboro Partners, led by Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore, is a New York City-based office of architects, urban designers, and planners working together to improve cities with innovative, experimental design ideas.For more information on Interboro Partners please visit http://www.interboropartners.net... |
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ICI Curator's Perspective: Rifky Effendy Date: April 18, 2013 6:30 p.m. Rifky Effendy speaks at the ICI’s Curator’s Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including the artists they are excited by, exhibitions that have made them think, and their views on recent developments in the art world. ICI developed the Curator’s Perspective as a way for international curators to share their research and experiences with audiences in New York. These talks provide ICI th... |
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Spectacular Mundane: New Urbanism Date: April 17, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Third in the series "Revisiting Urbanism" ... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Nayland Blake Date: April 17, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks: A Day-Long Symposium Date: April 13, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Center for Transformative Media (CTM) at Parsons The New School for Design presents ‘Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks’: a day-long symposium on the relation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy to Media Studies, Cybernetics, and the so-called ‘Digital Humanities’ (Human, All too Human?). The Nietzsche Workshop@Western is an annual international conference that provides an academic forum for scholars and students to discuss the most salient issues of contemporary society... |
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The Photographic Universe II - Day 2 Date: April 11, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Photographic Universe II brings together a range of leading practitioners, scientists, theoreticians, historians, and philosophers to consider and reflect on current discussions in photography at a pivotal moment in its history. ... |
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Cambodia: Drop by Drop You Will Feel the Water (exhibition) Date: April 11, 2013 - April 24, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Cambodia: Drop by Drop You Will Feel the Water is a multimedia exhibition exploring historical and contemporary relationships between Cambodia and the world with a particular emphasis on its ties to the United States... |
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The Photographic Universe II - Day 1 Date: April 10, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Photographic Universe II brings together a range of leading practitioners, scientists, theoreticians, historians, and philosophers to consider and reflect on current discussions in photography at a pivotal moment in its history. ... |
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Design and Social Development: Art, Design and Action in Latin America Date: April 10, 2013 6:00 p.m. The Consulate of Argentina will display a collection of work submitted by architects and social scientists from the University of Buenos Aires during an exhibition in April 2013. This opening discussion, hosted by the Observatory on Latin America at The New School, will bring together designers, contributors, and social scientists to discuss the impact of design on social development in Latin America. ... |
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New South American Regionalism: with guests from FLACSO Ecuador Date: April 10, 2013 6:00 p.m. A delegation of four faculty from FADU UBA, will discuss these issues at The New School. Their presentations will complement the Exhibition "Challenges of Design and Social Development at FADU UBA" taking place at the Consulate of Argentina in New York, April 11 to April 25... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series April 10, 2013 Date: April 10, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In partnership with the New York Chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, Parsons hosts a regular lecture series each semester on campus, inviting some of the most dynamic people in the industry to share their work and outlook on the future of design. ... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Dolores Zinny Date: April 10, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Living Arts City Colloquium: Art and Urbanism in Phnom Penh and New York, Day 2 Date: April 7, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. As part of Season of Cambodia, a multi-disciplinary arts festival, taking place this spring in New York City, the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design presents a two-day colloquium exploring the interconnectedness of creativity, urban ecology and community. The event provides a window into an ongoing exchange between designers, curators, architects, planners, and social researchers from Phnom Penh and New York.Sunday, April 7:Living Arts City: Art and Urb... |
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Living Arts City Colloquium: Art and Urbanism in Phnom Penh and New York, Day 1 Date: April 6, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. As part of Season of Cambodia (hyperlink to their site), a multi-disciplinary arts festival, taking place this spring in New York City, the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School for Design presents a two-day colloquium exploring the interconnectedness of creativity, urban ecology and community. The event provides a window into an ongoing exchange between designers, curators, architects, planners, and social researchers from Phnom Penh and New York.Saturday, April 6, ... |
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The New School in Ecuador: A Special Admission Event at FLACSO Date: April 5, 2013 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. The New School, a leading university in New York City, is holding a special admission event in Quito, Ecuador. Join New School Director and Professor Michael Cohen to learn about undergraduate, graduate, certificate programs offered by The New School in New York, Paris, and online. At this event, you can get information on admission procedures, test score requirements, and the different areas of study offered in art and design, liberal arts, international affairs, management and urban policy, ... |
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Parsons School of Art and Design History and Theory Presents Fashion in Film: Marnie Date: April 5, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Fashion in Film: A screening of the film, Marnie, with an introduction by John Epperson... |
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Branding, Graphics, Media and Technology Career Day Date: April 4, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events page at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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Stephan Weiss Lecture Series: J. Morgan Puett On Workstyles Date: April 4, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. J. Morgan Puett On Workstyles... |
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University Town Hall - Spring 2013 (Second Session) Date: April 3, 2013 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Please join President David E. Van Zandt and Provost Tim Marshall at a Town Hall meeting for the entire university community. ... |
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CANCELLED - AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Martin Kersels Date: April 3, 2013 7:00 p.m. Please note that this event has been cancelled. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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University Town Hall - Spring 2013 (First Session) Date: April 2, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Please join President David E. Van Zandt and Provost Tim Marshall at a Town Hall meeting for the entire university community. ... |
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The Public Private - exhibition (April) Date: April 1, 2013 - April 17, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Public Private will be the first New York exhibition of contemporary art to explore the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm... |
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Gender Play: Parsons Hosts Gender Design and Art Conference - Day 2 Date: March 29, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design presents GENDER PLAY, a two-day conference taking place on March 28 and 29 at The New School that will explore the issue of gender and its impact and influence on the production of art and design. The conference will feature the insights of an international mix of artists, designers, researchers, and scholars in the field, including curator Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art, designer Laurene Leon Boym of Boym Partners, and the acclaimed artist Ernesto Pujol. The conference will also serve as the platform for the launch of the international Gender Design Network (iGDN), a new initiative aimed at connecting designers and artists around this topic... |
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Gender Play: Parsons Hosts Gender Design and Art Conference - Day 1 Date: March 28, 2013 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design presents GENDER PLAY, a two-day conference taking place on March 28 and 29 at The New School that will explore the issue of gender and its impact and influence on the production of art and design. The conference will feature the insights of an international mix of artists, designers, researchers, and scholars in the field, including curator Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art, designer Laurene Leon Boym of Boym Partners, and the acclaimed artist Ernesto Pujol. The conference will also serve as the platform for the launch of the international Gender Design Network (iGDN), a new initiative aimed at connecting designers and artists around this topic... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series March 28, 2013 Date: March 28, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In partnership with the New York Chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, Parsons hosts a regular lecture series each semester on campus, inviting some of the most dynamic people in the industry to share their work and outlook on the future of design. ... |
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Transportation Alternatives: Four decades of Transportation Advocacy Date: March 27, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. As Transportation Alternatives celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2013, join T.A. staff and members for a brief look back at four decades of safe streets advocacy and a look ahead at the organization's plans for the coming year... |
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The Urbanization of Shock Therapy Date: March 22, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Southeast Europe and the European Crisis... |
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Inside the Business of Design: Bunny Williams Date: March 21, 2013 7:00 p.m. Inside the Business of Design is series of one-hour live interviews between accomplished design professionals and Keith Granet, author of The Business of Design, Balancing Creativity and Profitability, with the goal of enlightening the audience with the way each of these leaders created their successful design firms.Bunny Williams is a designer with a modern vision, a sense of history, and the confidence to take the unexpected path. Both a trailblazer and a tastemaker, Williams' style is classic... |
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Art and Design History and Theory Roundtable Discussion Date: March 20, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events page at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Susan Philipsz Date: March 20, 2013 6:30 p.m. This spring, Public Art Fund presents a series of talks by three distinctive artists whose work stretches the boundaries of objects and spaces in the public realm. Whether through the manipulation of a form’s scale in response to a specific context or the permeability of concepts, ideas, and emotions, each of the artists showcased in this series explores art’s ability to alter our experience of public space and the nature of sculpture itself. Berlin-based artist Susan Philipsz (b. Glasgow... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Jack Whitten Date: March 20, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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New Directions in the History of Decorative Arts & Design Date: March 19, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Decorative Arts Lecture Panel... |
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The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Public Sphere in Cuba: Day 3 Date: March 17, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Revolution Recodified is a three-day conference at The New School and New York University about the impact of digital technology in Cuban culture and society. For more than a decade, Cuban artists, musicians, independent journalists and librarians have teamed with computer scientists and engineers on the island and in the diaspora to foment a socially engaged and politically independent culture using digital technology. The conference will explore the ways that digital technology is transforming Cuba’s cultural and political landscape by challenging the state’s longstanding monopoly on communications media and its hegemonic control of cultural production and distribution... |
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The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Public Sphere in Cuba: Day 2 Date: March 16, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The Revolution Recodified is a three-day conference at The New School and New York University about the impact of digital technology in Cuban culture and society. For more than a decade, Cuban artists, musicians, independent journalists and librarians have teamed with computer scientists and engineers on the island and in the diaspora to foment a socially engaged and politically independent culture using digital technology. The conference will explore the ways that digital technology is transforming Cuba’s cultural and political landscape by challenging the state’s longstanding monopoly on communications media and its hegemonic control of cultural production and distribution... |
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The Revolution Recodified: Digital Culture and the Public Sphere in Cuba: Day 1 Date: March 15, 2013 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The Revolution Recodified is a three-day conference at The New School and New York University about the impact of digital technology in Cuban culture and society. For more than a decade, Cuban artists, musicians, independent journalists and librarians have teamed with computer scientists and engineers on the island and in the diaspora to foment a socially engaged and politically independent culture using digital technology. The conference will explore the ways that digital technology is transforming Cuba’s cultural and political landscape by challenging the state’s longstanding monopoly on communications media and its hegemonic control of cultural production and distribution... |
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BriCollab Presents: Contrasting Enterprises: Outdoor Advertising and Public Spaces Date: March 15, 2013 6:00 p.m. A screening of the documentary, This Space Available, followed by a discussion.Common in an urban setting, outdoor advertising dominate public spaces. Municipalities generate revenue from advertising agencies erecting large, high production value, mainstream messages. In confronting the nature and prominence of this industry and cultivation of cityscapes, there are complex issues of economics, urban development, public space, aesthetics, and availability of resources within a community to expres... |
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Parsons School of Art and Design History and Theory Presents Fashion in Film: Eyes of Laura Date: March 15, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Fashion in Film: A Screening of Eyes of Laura Introduced by Professor Jeffrey Lieber... |
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SCE Works in Progress: Andrea Ruggiero, Jeremy Barbour Date: March 14, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The School of Constructed Environments regularly invites a selection of its diverse faculty to present what's on the table in their creative practices. This semester we host Andre Ruggiero, faculty in Product Design, and Jeremy Barbour, faculty in Architecture and Interior Design... |
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New Challenge Exhibition & Speaker Series Date: March 13, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The New Challenge Exhibition will include a panel discussion featuring Cheryl Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, a world pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement. The panel will include social entrepreneurs who will share insights into the challenges and opportunities of launching and growing new organizations and companies that are changing the world. Winners of the 2013 New Challenge social innovation competition will be announced, and over $30,000 in funding will be distributed to t... |
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INSIDE (hi) STORIES Lecture Series Date: March 13, 2013 6:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. INSIDE (hi) STORIES is a Histories & Theories series, curated by design historian Sarah Lichtman (ADHT), and architectural historian Ioanna Theocharopoulou (SCE)... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Hans Haacke Date: March 13, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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A Panel on Fashion Criticism featuring Robin Givhan, Stefano Tonchi and Guy Trebay Date: March 12, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. A Panel on Fashion Criticism featuring Robin Givhan, Stefano Tonchi and Guy Trebay to celebrate the new issue of Fashion Projects... |
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T. J. Demos. The Haunting: Poverty Pornography, Humanitarianism, and Neoliberal Globalization in Renzo Martens’s Enjoy Poverty (2008) Date: March 12, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In a joint presentation by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics and the Cooper Union School of Art’s Interdisciplinary Seminar, art historian T.J. Demos considers Dutch artist Renzo Martens’s video Enjoy Poverty from 2008. Drawing from his forthcoming book Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art, Demos elaborates on the Dutch artist’s travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he created a performative intervention in the image-regime of media, photojourn... |
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Revisiting the AIDS Crisis - AIDS, Treatment, and Research: A Presentation and Discussion Date: March 11, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. As part of a full weekend of discussion and film screenings around HIV/AIDS, its history, and its impacts, this conversation will place its focus on epidemiological treatment and research. Colleen Daniels, TB/HIV Project Director with the Treatment Action Group NY, will discuss the current state of epidemiological research on HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis and discuss how data on surveillance can inform health policy, advocacy and action. The presentation will follow a special screening of the w... |
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Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Allison Smith Date: March 11, 2013 7:00 p.m. SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents the artist-led lecture series Subjective Histories of Sculpture. Initiated in 2006, the series explores how contemporary artists think about sculpture, its history, legacies, and potential for innovation. This year, Martin Kersels, Agnieszka Kurant, and Allison Smith are presenting their own take on art history within the framework of the Vera List Center’s curatorial theme Thingnes... |
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Revisiting the AIDS Crisis - Time is Not A Line: A public conversation around the anxiety of knowing, forgetting, history and living Date: March 10, 2013 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Inspired by the current cultural production around HIV/AIDS and the early response, this public conversation, will provide a forum for those engaged in counter culture and queer world making. The afternoon event is a chance to collectively reckon with historical legacies and the present moment in pursuit of progressive futures. Issues around being overwhelmed, "feeling backward', identifying with the dead, archive activism, trans politics, and "ongoing AIDS" will be explored. Refreshments ... |
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Revisiting the AIDS Crisis - Surviving, Uniting, Anger and the Plague: A Conversation with David France and Jim Hubbard Date: March 9, 2013 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. This conversation will bring together directors David France and Jim Hubbard, who have never before spoken on the same stage, concerning their documentation of the events that unfolded during early days of the ongoing AIDS pandemic and subsequent activism. The evening's discussion will be moderated by Tony Whitfield, Associate Dean of Civic Engagement at Parsons The New School for Design. Screenings of their gripping documentaries, How to Survive a Plague and United in Anger will precede the con... |
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New Challenge Pitch Event Date: March 8, 2013 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The New Challenge Pitch Event is an opportunity for the public to hear the the creative proposals of New School students to address social and environmental challenges. Students will pitch their ideas to a judging committee who will decide on the prizes to be awarded. The New Challenge is an ideas competition that provides student innovators with funding and other supports to take their ideas to the next level. The judging committee will include well-known leaders in the field of Social Innovat... |
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Career Pathways Lecture with Dr. Ashley Mears Date: March 8, 2013 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Dr. Ashley Mears will be speaking about her research and career path in and out of academia... |
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New School faculty panel on a university-wide response to Climate Change Date: March 8, 2013 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. What is The New School doing about climate change? What should it be doing and how might it get there?... |
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Urban Homesteading Roundtable Date: March 8, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. From Urban Homesteading to a New Ecology of Housing... |
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David Orr, Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design Fellow Lecture Date: March 7, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Leading environmentalist David Orr will lecture as the 2013 Kalil Fellow... |
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Pratt + Parsons Exhibition and Fundraiser Thursday, March 7th Date: March 7, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Students at Parsons The New School for Design were very saddened to learn about the recent fire at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. As a show of support for our fellow artists, the NRM Gallery and students from the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons (including its programs in Fine Arts, Illustration and Photography) will be hosting an exhibition of open submissions from Pratt’s painting and drawing departments, in conjunction with a benefit auction of work from Parsons students... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Wu Tsang Date: March 6, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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SOLD OUT - Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Thomas Schütte Date: March 4, 2013 6:30 p.m. This event is now sold out and no more seats are available. We apologize for any inconvenience.Thomas Schütte (b. 1954, Oldenburg, Germany) is one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary art. From architectural structures to sculptures, prints, drawings, and watercolors, his diverse and highly accomplished body of work resists categorization. For the past two decades, the contemplation of fundamental questions about our contemporary human condition has been a central concer... |
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Negotiating the Terrain of Design Studies: Research, Reflection, Practice(1) Date: March 2, 2013 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Parsons' Art and Design History and Theory presents a symposium inaugurating the MA in Design Studies Probram... |
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Pelin Tam Seminar Date: March 1, 2013 10:00 a.m. Presented by the Design and Urban Ecologies Program at the School of Design Strategies... |
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The Public Private - exhibition (March) Date: March 1, 2013 - April 17, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Public Private will be the first New York exhibition of contemporary art to explore the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm... |
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Constructed Environments and Strategic Design Career Day Date: March 1, 2013 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events page at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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Pelin Tam Seminar 2 Date: March 1, 2013 4:00 p.m. Presented by the Design and Urban Ecologies Program at the School of Design Strategies... |
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Negotiating the Terrain of Design Studies: Research, Reflection, Practice Date: March 1, 2013 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Parsons' School of Art and Design History and Theory presents a symposium inaugurating the MA in Design Studies Program... |
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James Karl Fischer Ph.D Lecture Date: February 28, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Architect James Karl Fischer began his explorations of light while majoring in physics. His advanced explorations in the history, theory and practice of professional ethics in medicine, law and architecture led to a unique contribution to the understanding of designers' environmental responsibility. He is the executive director for the Zoological Lighting Institute, a full service lighting design practice that contributes its expertise in the nascent science of environmental photo biology to key... |
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Heterotopias of the Cold War Date: February 27, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Visiting Professor Xenia Vytuleva discusses soviet secret societies in transition... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Paula Hayes Date: February 27, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Talking About Learning: Future Scenarios, Reflective Practice and 21st Century Learning Date: February 25, 2013 12:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Lisa Grocott, associate professor and dean of Academic Initiatives at the School of Art, Media and Technologies at Parsons, leads this workshop, which builds on a research project that traces a line between reflective practice, 21st century competencies and the formative assessment of cross-curricular learning. The research project centers around a two-part collaborative student exercise. The first part engages students in a future-oriented scenario that challenges participants to think cri... |
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AFTERTASTE: The Atmosphere of Objects, Day 2 Date: February 23, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The 2013 AFTERTASTE symposium will address interior experience through close examination of the way objects in space inform inhabitation, influence perception and create social dynamics. Things that occupy space are both props for the designer’s vision and projections of the inhabitant’s psyche. Objects and furniture choreograph human performance. They provide function, influence atmosphere and inspire nostalgia. AFTERTASTE, now in its 7th season, is a series of talks and conversations dedicate... |
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New Location - React: The Feminine Mystique at 50 (Day 2) Date: February 23, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. This symposium marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking book The Feminine Mystique. Friedan, a union activist and journalist, transformed the national conversation about the role of women in American society with her book, leading to the creation of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1965. This event features presentations and intergenerational dialogues about feminism’s past and present, particularly responses to and the continuing relevance of T... |
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New Location - React: The Feminine Mystique at 50 (Day 1) Date: February 22, 2013 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This symposium marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking book The Feminine Mystique. Friedan, a union activist and journalist, transformed the national conversation about the role of women in American society with her book, leading to the creation of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1965. This event features presentations and intergenerational dialogues about feminism’s past and present, particularly responses to and the continuing relevance of T... |
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AFTERTASTE: The Atmosphere of Objects, Day 1 Date: February 22, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The 2013 AFTERTASTE symposium will address interior experience through close examination of the way objects in space inform inhabitation, influence perception and create social dynamics. Things that occupy space are both props for the designer’s vision and projections of the inhabitant’s psyche. Objects and furniture choreograph human performance. They provide function, influence atmosphere and inspire nostalgia.AFTERTASTE, now in its 7th season, is a series of talks and conversations dedicated ... |
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At Night I Fly: Images from New Folsom Prison Date: February 22, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. At Night I Fly: Images from New Folsom Prison not only offers a peek into one of California’s most maximum security prisons, but more importantly tells the story of the prison’s inmates who try to change their life’s perspective... |
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React: The Feminine Mystique at 50 - Exhibition Date: February 21, 2013 - March 5, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. React: The Feminine Mystique at 50, will mark the anniversary of Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking text by extracting examples from the book to be used as the basis for student response... |
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Kickstarter: Best Practices to Make Your Project a Success Date: February 21, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. The New School wants to help you get your next project off the ground and funded. Kickstarter has been a powerful vehicle that has launched many student, faculty and alumni's projects. Open to all students, faculty and staff this info session is for anyone looking to find out the best tactics to create a successful Kickstarter campaign.The info session will be led by Stephanie Pereira from Kickstarter. She has spent the last 10 years working with organizations to catalyze creative communities th... |
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Inside the Business of Design: Mark Ferguson Date: February 21, 2013 6:30 p.m. Inside the Business of Design is series of one-hour live interviews between accomplished design professionals and Keith Granet, author of The Business of Design, Balancing Creativity and Profitability, with the goal of enlightening the audience with the way each of these leaders created their successful design firms.Mark Ferguson is a partner at Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, LLP, a firm widely recognized for residential design in traditional styles, particularly those with classical origins. ... |
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NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium: Robert Weaver Book Event Date: February 21, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Join us for a celebration of the publication of Robert Weaver’s split-level picture-book A Pedestrian View/The Vogelman Diary... |
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What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation Date: February 20, 2013 6:30 p.m. On occasion of the publication of What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Queens Museum of Art, and Creative Time present a conversation between the book’s author Tom Finkelpearl and contributors Brett Cook, Wendy Ewald, Sondra Farganis, Pedro Lasch, and Ernesto Pujol. Together, they examine the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences of contemporary art. In What We Made, Finkelpearl suggests social coopera... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Julie Ault Date: February 20, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Kickstarter: Best Practices to Make Your Project a Success Date: February 19, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. The New School wants to help you get your next project off the ground and funded. Kickstarter has been a powerful vehicle that has launched many student, faculty and alumni's projects. Open to all students, faculty and staff this info session is for anyone looking to find out the best tactics to create a successful Kickstarter campaign.The info session will be led by Stephanie Pereira from Kickstarter. She has spent the last 10 years working with organizations to catalyze creative communities th... |
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3rd Annual Youth Bike Summit Date: February 15, 2013 - February 17, 2013 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Three days of dialogue and resources about bicycle education and advocacy... |
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Louis Vuitton Reconstruction 3.0 “Life is a Journey” Date: February 14, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Featuring The School of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design, Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary Program, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music ... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series: Designer's Debate Club NO.3 Date: February 13, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In partnership with the New York Chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, Parsons hosts a regular lecture series each semester on campus, inviting some of the most dynamic people in the industry to share their work and outlook on the future of design. ... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Johan Grimonprez Date: February 13, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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SculptureCenter - Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Agnieszka Kurant Date: February 11, 2013 7:00 p.m. SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents the artist-led lecture series Subjective Histories of Sculpture. This program, initiated in 2006, furthers SculptureCenter's exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture, its history, legacies, and potential for innovation. This year, Martin Kersels, Agnieszka Kurant, and Allison Smith have been invited to present their own take on art history and consider the thema... |
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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Fashion Colloquia New York: DAY 2 Date: February 9, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Check back for Possible Rescheduling.The Fashion Colloquia is made up of a core network of four universities (London College of Fashion, Domus Academy, Institut Français de la Mode and Parsons The New School For Design) connected by their geographies and involvement in the four big ‘fashion cities’ of Paris, London, Milan, and New York.The New York session of The Fashion Colloquium hosted by Parsons The New School for Design will close this inaugural series in February 2013. Attendance at the Pa... |
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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Pictoplasma Returns to Parsons Day 2 Date: February 9, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. The world's leading conference on contemporary character design and art returns to NYC with an immersive weekend of artist talks, screenings, presentations and loads of character!... |
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Fashion Colloquia New York: DAY 1 Date: February 8, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Fashion Colloquia is made up of a core network of four universities (London College of Fashion, Domus Academy, Institut Français de la Mode and Parsons The New School For Design) connected by their geographies and involvement in the four big ‘fashion cities’ of Paris, London, Milan, and New York.The New York session of The Fashion Colloquium hosted by Parsons The New School for Design will close this inaugural series in February 2013. Attendance at the Parsons Colloquium will be free of char... |
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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER: Pictoplasma Returns to Parsons Day 1 Date: February 8, 2013 4:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. The world's leading conference on contemporary character design and art returns to NYC with an immersive weekend of artist talks, screenings, presentations and loads of character!... |
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The Public Private - exhibition Date: February 7, 2013 - April 17, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Public Private will be the first New York exhibition of contemporary art to explore the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm... |
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Chen Guangcheng on the Future of the Rule of Law and Human Rights in China Date: February 6, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. The Future of the Rule of Law and Human Rights in China: Chen Guangcheng in conversation with Jerome A. Cohen and Ira Belkin... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Mierle Laderman Ukeles Date: February 6, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Internship Fair Date: February 5, 2013 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events page at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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Creating Sustainable Cultures Date: February 5, 2013 5:30 p.m. Milano The New School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, in partnership with the Organization Development Network of New York, will host a unique program focusing on the design of space as an element of sustainability and on the impact of that space on organizational behavior and culture. This is the third installment of our ongoing series exploring the role of Organization Development in Sustainability, and adds to the OD practitioner's toolkit in a way that is often overlo... |
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Where Should the Birds Fly? Film Screening Date: February 1, 2013 6:00 p.m. Come meet the filmmaker, Fida Qishta and engage in a conversation about the current situation in Gaza with faculty, staff, and students... |
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Film Screening: Portrait of Wally Date: February 1, 2013 7:00 p.m. Portrait of Wally, Egon Schiele's tender picture of his mistress, Walburga ("Wally") Neuzil, is the pride of the Leopold Museum in Vienna. But for 13 years the painting was locked up in New York, caught in a legal battle between the Austrian museum and the Jewish family from whom the Nazis seized the painting in 1939. Directed by Andrew Shea, this captivating documentary film, Portrait of Wally, traces the history of this iconic image – from the seizure of the painting by Nazis from Jewish... |
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Internship Workshop Series(1) Date: January 31, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events Page at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series January 31, 2013 Date: January 31, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In partnership with the New York Chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, Parsons hosts a regular lecture series each semester on campus, inviting some of the most dynamic people in the industry to share their work and outlook on the future of design. ... |
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Urban Encuentro Date: January 31, 2013 7:00 p.m. Urban Social Movements and the Struggle for the Soul of the CIty: Global and Local Perspectives on the Right to the City... |
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Internship Workshop Series Date: January 30, 2013 - January 31, 2013 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. See the Parsons Career Services Events at: http://www.newschool.edu/design-career-announcements-events/... |
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AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: LaToya Ruby Frazier Date: January 30, 2013 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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SculptureCenter - Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Martin Kersels Date: January 28, 2013 7:00 p.m. SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents the artist-led lecture series Subjective Histories of Sculpture. This program, initiated in 2006, furthers SculptureCenter’s exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture, its history, legacies, and potential for innovation.This year, three artists have been invited to present their own take on art history and consider the thematic focus of Thingness. Utilizing... |
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Prototyping: An Exhibition in the Cloud at Berlin University of the Arts Date: January 25, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Prototype: Exhibition in the Cloud is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Parsons The New School for Design and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) which seeks to challenge and reinvent received notions of prototyping, extending its design and industrial origin to encompass artistic imagination. The participating students come from a spectrum of disciplines including Design and Technology, Communication Design, Interactive Design, Fine Arts, Photography and Illustration. Prototyping i... |
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Political Advertisement 1952-2012: Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese Date: January 24, 2013 6:30 p.m. Sometime in the early 1950s Madison Avenue's hucksters realized that they could sell political candidates like any other product, a throat lozenge or facial tissue.-Steve Seid, Fifty Years of Campaign Spots (Berkeley: Pacific Film Archive, 2000)Three days after the presidential inauguration, artists Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese present a new installment of their twenty-eight-year project Political Advertisement. Launched in 1984-and in each edition updated with new campaign advertisements-... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series: Perfectly Imperfect, An Evening With Dana Tanamachi Date: January 23, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In partnership with the New York Chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design, Parsons hosts a regular lecture series each semester on campus, inviting some of the most dynamic people in the industry to share their work and outlook on the future of design. ... |
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Sophie Gimbel: Fashioning American Couture Date: January 22, 2013 - February 12, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sophie Gimbel was a seminal figure in the American fashion industry during the first half of the 20th century. This exhibition will provide insight into Gimbel’s original design creations through the creative display of garments from the Parsons Fashion Archive. ... |
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MAS@The New School: The Road to Resilience: From the Ground Up -Policy, Planning and Process Date: January 12, 2013 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy... |
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Professional & Continuing Education Spring Open House Night Date: January 8, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Take a Class or Earn Your Degree: Come to our open house and learn about the broad range of degree, certificate, and continuing education opportunities at The New School—designed specifically for adults.Learn about:Continuing Education classesUndergraduate degrees for adults and transfer studentsThe New School’s undergraduate mobility agreement with The International Culinary Center for The New Culinary ProfessionalCertificate optionsPre-College programs in art, design, and music for students in... |
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Professional AAS and Graduate Studies at Parsons Date: January 8, 2013 6:45 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Learn about Parsons' diverse and innovative Graduate and Associate degree programs. This information session, hosted by the Office of Admission, will offer a brief overview of each program and go over the application process... |
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An Evening with Jared Diamond Date: January 7, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? ... |
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The Voice of Freedom - Social Change through the Arts at The New School - NEW TIME Date: December 15, 2012 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The "Voice of Freedom" presents several community-based arts collaborations led by students from the New School for Public Engagement's "Transforming Community Through the Arts" course. These include "Unmasking my past, reclaiming my future," a theater piece created with survivors of human trafficking, a Peace Trilogy Anti-War Flash Mob, and a documentary trailer focusing on the creation of a Race Relations Mural painted at "Make the Road New York" and other arts and social change projects. Aud... |
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AIGA/NY @ PARSONS LECTURE SERIES: The New Future of Design Date: December 12, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. What does design look like in the future? The outcomes that once defined us (print, branding, packaging…etc.) have expanded in the digital age, to include web, motion, UX and a growing list of others. But what happens when technology moves beyond the screen to merge with the physical world? What happens when our tools grow to include not just computers, but 3-D printing, open-source engineering and everything else? Join us as we meet a few of the talented designers who offer a glimpse into this future, revealing the possibilities of tomorrow’s designer... |
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Stock Film Footage Today: Creative Uses and Licensing Date: December 11, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The Parsons Institute for Intellectual Property (PiiP), in partnership with the Association of Commercial Stock Footage Licensors (ACSIL), announces an evening panel presentation on creative uses and licensing for stock film footage in a digital world. ... |
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Music Business Now: How Music Makes Money Date: December 10, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The Parsons Institute for Intellectual Property (PiiP) announces an evening panel presentation of industry professionals discussing how music makes money now... |
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Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers, Day 3 Date: December 8, 2012 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The New School's Center for Public Scholarship is pleased to present the 28th Social Research conference, Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 6, 7, and 8, 2012... |
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Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers, Day 2 Date: December 7, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 6:45 p.m. The New School's Center for Public Scholarship is pleased to present the 28th Social Research conference, Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, December 6, 7, and 8, 2012... |
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Giving: Caring for the Needs of Strangers, a 3-day public conference Date: December 6, 2012 - December 8, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Center for Public Scholarship presents the 28th Social Research conference at The New School... |
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Urban Colloquium Lecture Series - Sheela Patel Date: December 6, 2012 7:00 p.m. Empowered Slums and Collaborative Networks... |
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Inside the Business of Design: Robert A.M. Stern Date: December 5, 2012 6:30 p.m. Inside the Business of Design is a series of one-on-one interviews between accomplished design professionals and Keith Granet, principal of the design management agency Granet & Associates. The series will explore the business side of prominent architecture and interior design practices and shed light on the insider details of how successful design firms are created. The first event of the series will feature Robert A.M. Stern, founder and Senior Partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. St... |
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CANCELLED AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Adam Pendleton Date: December 5, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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DESIGNING THE SECOND SKIN: GIORGIO DI SANT’ANGELO 1971-1991 - Exhibition Date: December 4, 2012 - December 14, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Parsons presents the first New York exhibition of the work of designer Giorgio di Sant’Angelo, an innovative Italian-born American designer from the 1960s through 1980s who explored the ways in which garments truly become the wearer’s second skin... |
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Humanity in Action: International Human Rights Fellowship Info Session and Film Screening Date: December 4, 2012 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 a.m. Please join Humanity in Action! ... |
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CPS: Future of Higher Education panel Date: December 3, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Panel of college and university presidents will discuss how to cut costs and maintain quality education... |
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Urban Uprising: Re-Imagining The City Date: December 1, 2012 9:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Hundreds of New Yorkers to Converge for a Weekend Conference to Demand Social Justice, and Sustainability for New York... |
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More Business with Less Stuff Date: November 30, 2012 6:45 p.m. The Invisible Design Revolution - A Lecture by Howard Brown... |
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AIGA/NY @ Parsons Lecture Series:DESIGNING FOR STYLE MAGAZINES CRAFTING EDITORIAL THAT SELLS Date: November 29, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. In this illustrious panel discussion between three veterans of the magazine industry, moderator Danica Lo Executive Editor of Stylebistro.com will engage Meirion Pritchard, former Creative Director of Wallpaper* magazine, Chelsea Cardinal, Art Director at GQ Magazine and Alexandra Durbin, Founder/Creative Director of Maui New York... |
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Give a Spit About Cancer! Enter the National Bone Marrow Registry Date: November 28, 2012 12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Each year over 10,000 people need a donation to treat blood or bone cancer and thousands of patients each year are still looking for a donor match. To meet this need, The New School has partnered with Do Something and Be the Match on November 28 to encourage New School community members to get swabbed and enhance the national donor registry. Providing a cheek swab takes only a moment of your time and may save a life... |
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Intro Guide to a Career with the U.N. (rescheduled date) Date: November 28, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. The United Nations continues to be the world's most influential international forum, but the path to employment within its multiple bodies and programs is often a challenging task.In this seminar you will learn:• How to understand the various bodies of the U.N. system: What are they and which are currently hiring?• Realities vs. misconceptions: What degree do I need? What are the requirements? What can I expect to earn?• What U.N. employers are currently recruiting for: Resume and cover letter t... |
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MA History of Decorative Arts and Design Graduate Open House Date: November 28, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. The next generation of decorative arts and design historians, curators, and authors will receive their education from this prestigious two-year program, which confers an MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design... |
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DESIS + SDN Panel Discussion Date: November 28, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. In this panel discussion, we will explore the question of why services need to be designed and examine the difference between bottom up and top down approaches in delivering services in New York City.Moderated by Marshall Sitten, Service Design Network, panelists include: Melissa Dalrymple, innovation consultant, DoblinRajesh Bilimoria, vice president, ContinuumLynn Teo, chief experience officer, McCann Erickson... |
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School - Between Art and Architecture: Oscar Tuazon Date: November 28, 2012 6:30 p.m. This event was rescheduled to now take place on Wednesday, November 28. All tickets for September 26 will be honored. We apologize for any inconvenience.The built environment has long been a source of inspiration to contemporary artists. From Gordon Matta-Clark's abandoned building "cuts" to Doris Salcedo's site-specific interventions and Dan Graham's Pavilions, artists have utilized architecture as a means to engage the public. This fall, Public Art Fund presents a series of talks by a new g... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Robert Sember-Ultrared Date: November 28, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Resonance: The Specificities of Change within Systems and Entities Date: November 27, 2012 6:30 p.m. Curatorial duo Rivet (Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso) considers resonance, a notion they take from philosopher Levi Bryant's The Democracy of Objects, as a perspective on, and potential way of, interacting with the world. Informed by their current exhibitions, Resonance at the Goethe-Institut New York and Resonance and Repetition on view at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, as well as by ongoing discussions with collaborators and artists, their talk highlights artistic projects and so to... |
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Danish Design Review New York Date: November 17, 2012 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Come meet the rising stars of Danish design: a symposium and exhibition hosted by Parsons in partnership with the Danish Design Centre and Consulate General of Denmark ... |
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Urban Colloquium Lecture Series - Danya Sherman Date: November 15, 2012 7:00 p.m. The High Line from Behind the Scenes... |
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School - Between Art and Architecture: Carol Bove Date: November 14, 2012 6:30 p.m. Carol Bove’s room-sized installations and intricate assemblages suggest an anachronistic archaeology of objects that register at both metaphoric and psychic levels. Incorporating artifacts, images and objects, her sculptural compositions subtly evoke a wide range of cultural references that often circle around the atmosphere of the 1960’s and 70’s. Using such diverse materials as books, shells, driftwood, peacock feathers, metal, concrete, foam, and more recently bronze, and petrified wood, Bove... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Milagros de la Torre Date: November 14, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Bouchra Khalili: Invisible Roads Date: November 13, 2012 6:30 p.m. Working in video, print, photography, and mixed media installations, Bouchra Khalili has emerged as one of the most significant artistic voices to mine the experience of immigrant minorities. The artist combines a conceptual approach with documentary practices to explore issues of forced nomadism, undocumented existence, and minority discourses.The recipient of numerous awards, among them this year's DAAD-Artist in Berlin Award, Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili is a 2011-2013 Vera List Cen... |
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Prototyping: An Exhibition in the Cloud - Exhibition Date: November 9, 2012 - November 20, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Prototyping: An Exhibition in the Cloud, is an interdisciplinary collaborative project between the Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology (AMT) and the Media Arts department from University of the Arts in Berlin. ... |
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William Massie: 'Surf Ace' Date: November 8, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Architect in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Arts, William Massie, graduate of Parsons the New School for Design (’87), is a revolutionary in the fields of architecture and interior design. While a student at Parsons, and subsequently at Columbia GSAPP, Massie investigated the possibility of how fabrication methods borrowed from other industries could be applied to the making of buildings and building components. Incorporating unconventional elements such as expandable latex volumes and uret... |
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Helen Caldicott and Bob Herbert: Loving This Planet Date: November 8, 2012 6:30 p.m. Award-winning activist Helen Caldicott joins renowned journalist Bob Herbert to discuss our most urgent global challenges and themes from her new book, Loving This Planet... |
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POSTPONED TO 12/10: Music Business Now: How Music Makes Money Date: November 7, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The Parsons Institute for Intellectual Property (PiiP) announces an evening panel presentation of industry professionals discussing how music makes money now. ... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Joan Jonas Date: November 7, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Now He’s Out in Public and Everyone Can See. Natalie Bookchin Presents Recent Work Date: November 6, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. On Election Night, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in conjunction with the center's class Art & the Political presents artist Natalie Bookchin who will present her 2012 project Now He's Out in Public and Everyone Can See. First presented at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) this summer, the 18-channel video work weaves together multiple stories in which video bloggers recount media scandals involving famous African American men. In her New School talk, Bookc... |
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EVENT CANCELLED: Negotiating the Terrain of Design Studies: Research, Reflection, Practice Day 2 Date: November 3, 2012 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Like design itself, design studies is a multifarious enterprise. ... |
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EVENT CANCELLED: Pictoplasma Returns to Parsons(1) Date: November 2, 2012 - November 3, 2012 3:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Hosted by Parsons The New School for Design, it's the world's leading conference on contemporary character design and art. It's an immersive weekend of artist talks, screenings, presentations, and loads of character!... |
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EVENT CANCELLED: Negotiating the Terrain of Design Studies: Research, Reflection, Practice Day 1 Date: November 2, 2012 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Like design itself, design studies is a multifarious enterprise. ... |
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EVENT CANCELLED: Keller Easterling: 'Extrastatecraft' Date: November 1, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Due to continuing power outages in Lower Manhattan, The New School will remain closed until Monday, November 5, therefore this event has been cancelled. Please check the events calendar should this be rescheduled. Observing that space has become a mobile, monetized technology, the talk considers infrastructure to be, not the urban substructure, but the urban structure itself. Some of the most radical changes to the globalizing world are being written, not in the language of law and diplomacy, ... |
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EVENT CANCELLED: Urban Colloquium Lecture Series - Vinayak Bharne Date: November 1, 2012 7:00 p.m. Spectacular Mundane: New Urbanism... |
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EVENT CANCELLED: AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Paula Hayes Date: October 31, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Graduate National Portfolio Days For Prospective Graduate Students Date: October 28, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Graduate Portfolio Days are for students who have already completed a bachelor's degree program and are looking to further their education at the graduate level. They follow the same format as National Portfolio Days but provide prospective MFA, MArch, and MS students an opportunity to receive feedback on their portfolios. It is appropriate for those seeking admission to a graduate course of study that requires a portfolio submission. These sessions also give students the opportunity to learn mo... |
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GRADUATE NATIONAL PORTFOLIO DAYS Date: October 28, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. For Prospective Graduate Students... |
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Light & Human Health Date: October 26, 2012 3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Introduction: Derek Porter, Associate Professor and Director, MFA Lighting Design, ParsonsPresenters:George Brainard PhD MD, Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Department of NeurologyMatthew Cobham, Philips Lighting ApplicationsModerator: Craig Bernecker PhD, Associate Professor, MFA Lighting Design, ParsonsThis conversation, bringing together experts from higher education and industry leader Philips Lighting examines the subject of human health and well-being and its influences from light ... |
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Communities of: _________ (Exhibition) Date: October 25, 2012 - November 3, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Communities of: _________, is a multi-media exhibition and symposium presenting community-engaged projects from across The New School ranging from engagements with local communities to international fieldwork, from designing through craft to designing policy and from semester-long collaborations to ongoing partnerships... |
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Spontaneous Interventions: The U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale Date: October 25, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Spontaneous Interventions: The U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture BiennalePresenters:Cathy Lang Ho & Anne Guiney, Curatorial Team, Institute for Urban Design. Lauren Crahan & John Hartmann, Exhibition Designers, Freecell Design and Fabrication; Adjunct Faculty, Parsons.Quilian Riano, Participant, Principal at DSGN AGNC, Adjunct Faculty, Parsons.Spontaneous Interventions is the title of the critically acclaimed exhibition representing the United States in this year's Venice Architecture Bie... |
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Research Clusters Networking Event Date: October 25, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. An informal event for all New School faculty interested in finding out more information about The New School's new funding opportunity, Research Cluster Grants... |
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Urban Colloquium Lecture Series - Christine Gaspar Date: October 25, 2012 7:00 p.m. Practicing Urban Pedagogy... |
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The Future of Security: Ethical Hacking, Big Data and the Crowd Date: October 24, 2012 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. The Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM), a Research, Development and Professional Services facility within The New School, together with the Center for Transformative Media (CTM) of Parsons The New School for Design, are hosting a one-day conference entitled "The Future of Security: Ethical Hacking, Big Data and the Crowd."The conference will convene a day long series of discussions to highlight the emerging, disruptive forces changing the landscape of the global community. Key pane... |
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The New School Sustainability Forum Date: October 24, 2012 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. The New School celebrates the 10th annual Campus Sustainability Day, a national day recognizing higher education's leadership role in sustainability, with a Sustainability Forum. This event will bring together key university leaders to update our community about infrastructure improvements that save energy and water, the "green" attributes and high performance design of the new University Center, and efforts to include sustainability in our curriculum. An open dialogue will follow that is meant ... |
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What Happened To Jackson Avenue? Film Screening and Talk-Back Date: October 24, 2012 6:00 p.m. As part of its cross-disciplinary lecture series, the Urban Studies program will be screening a documentary film followed by a discussion and Q&A. The film, titled What Happened to Jackson Avenue?, is set in Jersey City and was produced by Brook Hansen, an alumna of the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy at the New School for Public Engagement.Now known as Martin Luther King Drive, Jackson Avenue used to be one of the main community and commercial corridors of Je... |
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School - Between Art and Architecture: Monika Sosnowska Date: October 24, 2012 6:30 p.m. The built environment has long been a source of inspiration to contemporary artists. From Gordon Matta-Clark’s abandoned building “cuts” to Doris Salcedo’s site-specific interventions and Dan Graham’s Pavilions, artists have utilized architecture as a means to engage the public. This fall, Public Art Fund presents a series of talks by a new generation of artists whose work engages the built environment as both a point of departure and source of inspiration. Drawing on elements of architectural... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Anoka Faruqee Date: October 24, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Town Hall Meeting with David E. Van Zandt and Tim Marshall - October 22 Date: October 22, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Please join President David E. Van Zandt and Provost Tim Marshall at a Town Hall meeting for the entire university community.In order to accommodate more people, including those who are here in the evening, two fall sessions have been scheduled. The first meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 17, at 12:00 p.m. in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. The meeting is open to New School students, faculty, and staff. ... |
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SCE Faculty Works in Progress:Daniel Michalik. Nathalie Rozot Date: October 18, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. The School of Constructed Environments: Architecture / Interior Design / Lighting Design / Product Design regularly invites a selection of its diverse faculty to present what's on the table' in their creative research practices. This evening we will host Daniel Michalik and Nathalie Rozot. Daniel is a furniture designer whose work focuses on researching and expanding overlooked materials to create objects that explore the intersections of material, history, culture and manu... |
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SCE Faculty Works in Progress: Alexa Griffiths Winton. Mark Rakatansky Date: October 18, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. The School of Constructed Environments: Architecture / Interior Design / Lighting Design / Product Design regularly invites a selection of its diverse faculty to present what's on the table' in their creative research practices. This evening we will host Alexa Griffiths Winton and Mark Rakatansky. Design historian Alexa Griffith Winton specializes in the history and theory of the modern domestic interior. Her work has been featured in many design publications, including the Journal of Design Hi... |
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Full Capacity - The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation - Artists and Greenwich Village Series: Jean-Michel Basquiat Date: October 18, 2012 6:30 p.m. This event has reached full capacity. No more reservations are being taken. The second of two panels which reminisce about the New Wave scene that filled the East Village and Lower East Side with astonishing art and music for a brief five years, 1978 to 1983, and brought two extraordinary young artists, Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat, into the limelight. Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (d. 1988) began spray-painting graffiti art on New York ... |
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Urban Colloquium Lecture Series - Brenda Rosen Date: October 18, 2012 7:00 p.m. Low-Income Housing: A Success Story... |
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Town Hall Meeting with David E. Van Zandt and Tim Marshall-October 17 Date: October 17, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Please join President David E. Van Zandt and Provost Tim Marshall at a Town Hall meeting for the entire university community.In order to accommodate more people, including those who are here in the evening, two fall sessions have been scheduled. The second meeting will take place on Monday, October 22, at 6:00 p.m. in Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. The meeting is open to New School students, faculty, and staff. ... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: David Diao Date: October 17, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Faculty Research Brownbag Series: Books and Broadband-South Korea's Paju Bookcity Date: October 16, 2012 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Just a few miles from the demilitarized zone in South Korea a new city has arisen – a city dedicated to books. Paju Bookcity attempts to write a new chapter for Korean history that weaves together publishing, architecture, and urban planning – all fields which have faced dramatic changes in the nation’s tumultuous 20th century, and particularly in the last two-and-a-half decades. Why build a new “city of print” in the land of Samsung, in a nation aiming for the complete digitization of its publi... |
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The New School's Campus Climate Assessment Date: October 16, 2012 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. The New School's social justice initiative, “campus climate” refers to the ways in which various constituencies experience a college or university atmosphere. The assessment will look at the extent to which aspects of the university are equitable and just based on socioeconomic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, and other identity dimensions. Findings and insights from this project will be used to inform policy and practices intended to make The New School more equitable and just communit... |
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Campus Climate Assessment Presentation Date: October 16, 2012 12:30 p.m. Campus Climate Assessment Presentation... |
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Neomaterialism. Joshua Simon and Noam Yuran on the Subjectivity and Vitality of Things Date: October 16, 2012 6:30 p.m. Over the last four decades we have witnessed processes of dematerialization in various fields: Money has been dematerialized with the dissolution of the gold standard, commodities have been dematerialized with the ascendance of brand names, and art practices were dematerialized by the emergence of movements such as conceptual art. Taken together, these processes can serve as a starting point for rethinking materialism. Rather than render the concept of materialism obsolete, however, these extend... |
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Book Launch at Parsons for Faculty Anthony Aziz Date: October 15, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. This event is to launch Anthony Aziz and his partner Sam Cucher's exhibition catalog SOME PEOPLE that is being released this fall by the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Hatje Cantz, Germany... |
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Mind Your Own Business: An Information Fair and Alumni Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship Date: October 13, 2012 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2:00-3:30 p.m.Information Fair for Parsons EntrepreneursOrientation Room, 2 West 13th Street, Ground Floor.Learn from organizations geared toward helping entrepreneurs with financial planning, business plan writing, legal issues, and marketing. Organizations include eMinutes, Green Spaces, Kickstarter, NYDesigns, SCORE NYC, SUPER!market NYC, Rock the Post, and more.3:30–5:00 p.m.Parsons Alumni on Building and Maintaining an Entrepreneurial CareerKellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, Ground FloorSt... |
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Mind Your Own Business: An Information Fair and Alumni Panel Discussion on Entrepreneurship Date: October 13, 2012 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2:00-3:30 p.m.Information Fair for Parsons EntrepreneursOrientation Room, 2 West 13th Street, Ground Floor.Learn from organizations geared toward helping entrepreneurs with financial planning, business plan writing, legal issues, and marketing. Organizations include eMinutes, Green Spaces, Kickstarter, NYDesigns, SCORE NYC, SUPER!market NYC, Rock the Post, and more.3:30–5:00 p.m.Parsons Alumni on Building and Maintaining an Entrepreneurial CareerKellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, Ground FloorSt... |
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Second Annual Parsons Alumni Exhibition Opening and Reunion Reception Date: October 13, 2012 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. This exhibition, curated from hundreds of impressive submissions, celebrates the creativity of Parsons alumni across the disciplines and generations.This event is open to Parsons alumni and faculty. ... |
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Archives and Activism -SOLD OUT Date: October 12, 2012 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. If archivism was indeed ever exclusively ideologically neutral in its approach to managing historical materials, many archivists have come to see said objectivity as illusory at best. Principal amongst the reasons for this shift in perspective within the archives community is a growing awareness that its custodianship of cultural materials can never be enacted in a manner wholly divorced from interpretation, advocacy, and the ever-present demands of the socially or economically powerful institut... |
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Parsons Alumni Exhibition 2012 Date: October 12, 2012 - October 19, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. An exhibition featuring work created by Parsons alumni... |
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Timber in the City: Sustainable and Affordable Urban Housing Date: October 11, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Presenters:Cees de Jager, Executive Director Binational Softwood Lumber CouncilAndrew Waugh, Principal, Waugh Thistleton Architects, London, EnglandMichael Green, Principal, MGA Architects and Interior Design, VancouverThis event brings together two architects, Andrew Waugh and Michael Green, leading the design exploration of timber buildings, and Cees de Jager who directs the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, a nonprofit organization established by the Canadian and U.S. Governments to increas... |
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Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture: Kate Fletcher Date: October 11, 2012 6:00 p.m. "Alternative Fashion Systems"... |
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Urban Colloquium Lecture Series - Paul White Date: October 11, 2012 7:00 p.m. Designing Transportation Networks Via Legislative Advocacy... |
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New Green City 2012 Date: October 10, 2012 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Come out and explore GrowNYC's annual New Green City event in Union Square. The New School is proud to serve as the event's sole educational sponsor for the second consecutive year. An extension of the Wednesday greenmarket, this eco-fair includes workshops hosted by The New School, interactive exhibits and various vendors that all address sustainability-related issues and solutions. Textile and cell phone recycling as well as compost drop-off also available. In 2011, nearly 150,000 people atten... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Vito Acconci Date: October 10, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Trend Union Autumn/Winter 2013/14 Romanticism Forecast Date: October 4, 2012 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. All Parsons Design and Marketing majors are cordially invited to attend Trend Union’s Autumn/Winter 2013/14 forecast, Romanticism.Trend Union of Edelkoort Inc. is one of the most prestigious international forecasting services in the industry. The event is hosted by the School of Fashion and is part of the fashion forecasting series opened to Parsons students and faculty. Seating is limited... |
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'As It Is On Earth' by Peter M Wheelwright, a Book Reading and Panel Discussion Date: October 4, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Introduction: David Lewis, Interim Dean SCEPanel:Joseph Salvatore, Professor of Writing, The New School for Public EngagementSusan Szenasy, Editor in Chief Metropolis MagazinePeter M Wheelwright, Associate Professor, ParsonsModerator, Alan Bruton, Assistant Professor, ParsonsPeter Matthiessen Wheelwright's first novel, As It Is On Earth, is the story of two brothers, haunted by their colorful past while thoroughly engaged in the painful now, as they ramble the earth from New Engla... |
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Zoe Romano - Open Source Branding Lecture Date: October 4, 2012 6:00 p.m. From Open Source Branding to Collaborative Clothing... |
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Urban Colloquium Lecture Series Date: October 4, 2012 7:00 p.m. The School of Design Strategies at Parsons presents the 3rd edition of the Urban Colloquium, a series of public conversations on alternative and innovative modes ofurban practice. The Colloquium focuses on investigating the creative, radical, and subversive ways in which cities are truly shaped, by whom, and for what purposes.Speakers this fall include Jason Hilgefort, Project Leader at MAXWAN, an innovative urbanist practice in Rotterdam that focuses on urban processes; Vera ... |
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New Location - The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation at The New School - Artists and Greenwich Village Series: Keith Haring Date: October 3, 2012 6:30 p.m. Two panels reminisce about the New Wave scene that filled the East Village and Lower East Side with astonishing art and music for a brief five years, 1978 to 1983, and brought two extraordinary young artists, Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat, into the limelight.Keith Haring and the Streets of the VillageIn 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d.1990) moved to New York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts. Inspired by the ubiquitous graffiti of the time, he displayed his pop art–style ... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Antonio Vega-Macotela Date: October 3, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Economics Faculty - Undergrad student meet and greet Date: October 2, 2012 4:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. Talk one on one with economics faculty... |
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How Can Art Affect Political Change? Date: October 2, 2012 6:30 p.m. Bringing together leading theorists of contemporary art and culture, curators and artists, How Can Art Affect Political Change? addresses the complex relationship between creative practice and political activism. The wave of Arab Spring revolutions and the growth of the global Occupy movements have ignited a reassessment of the intersection of art, economics and politics. Key presentations by Andrea Geyer, Marisa Jahn, Josh MacPhee, Mitch McEwen, Yates McKee, and Benjamin Young examine the shift... |
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Art, Environment, Action! - exhibition Date: September 28, 2012 - December 15, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Art, Environment, Action! is a creative teaching laboratory and environmental “artshop.” Bringing together artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists who work at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology, it invites the public to join them to transform and activate the gallery. ... |
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NEW DATE Public Art Fund Talks at The New School - Between Art and Architecture: Oscar Tuazon Date: September 26, 2012 6:30 p.m. This event has been rescheduled and will now be held on Wednesday, November 28. All tickets for September 26 will be honored. We apologize for any inconvenience.The built environment has long been a source of inspiration to contemporary artists. From Gordon Matta-Clark's abandoned building "cuts" to Doris Salcedo's site-specific interventions and Dan Graham's Pavilions, artists have utilized architecture as a means to engage the public. This fall, Public Art Fund presents a series of talks by... |
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Design Intelligence: Fashion Date: September 19, 2012 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. In a world of global competition, financial crises, environmental pressures, rampant consumerism and rapid technological advancement, the business of fashion is changing quickly... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Shari Diamond Date: September 19, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Question for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood - exhibition Date: September 17, 2012 - October 6, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Question for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood is an examination and reinterpretation of the historical allegiances and projected intentions of socially engaged art of the 1930s WPA Era. Responding to the contents of the New School's Orozco Room—the murals’ subjects, reception, and censorship—artists/curators channel the performative potential of Orozco's archive and mythology in a multimedia exhibition. The gallery features an evolving mural and sculptures that serve as centerpiece and backdrop to a roster of performances. ... |
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Ignite NYC Date: September 12, 2012 6:30 p.m. Fails, Facepalms, and Spinouts: Stories from the Other Side of Failure. ... |
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AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Mariam Ghani Date: September 12, 2012 7:00 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design. Organized by Coco Fusco, director of Intermedia Initiatives at AMT, the series invites renowned artists from around the world to give free public presentations each Wednesday... |
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Paul Ramírez Jonas: Every Public Has a Form Date: September 11, 2012 6:30 p.m. Every Public Has a Form is a public lecture and performance that speculates on the intricate relationship between public monuments, public memory, public space, and public protest.In a provocative format – essentially a manifesto delivered in words, images, and in person – artist and educator Paul Ramírez Jonas presents a provocative thesis: that the public space is constituted as much by material as by personal conditions, and that new definitions are called for to describe and evaluate the “f... |
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Comradely Objects: Art Against Reification Date: September 8, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Our things in our hands must be equals, comrades, and not these black and mournful slaves…—Aleksandr Rodchenko, letter to Varvara Stepanova, 1925 The Soviet avant-garde occupies a prominent place in the history and historiography of modern art. A subject of extensive discussion in its own right, it has also figured consistently in analyses of the relationship between the historical and postwar neo-avant-gardes. Thirty-five years have passed since the editors of October named their journal after ... |
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NYC GIS and Cartography Meetup: Election Mapping Date: September 7, 2012 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Journalists and technologists from the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Pro Publica, and Vizzuality will discuss new techniques in Election Mapping... |
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Urban Colloquium Date: September 6, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The School of Design Strategies at Parsons presents the 3rd edition of the Urban Colloquium, a series of public conversations on alternative and innovative modes of urban practice. The Colloquium focuses on the creative, radical, and subversive ways in which cities are truly shaped, by whom, and for what purposes.Speakers this fall include Jason Hilgefort, Project Leader at MAXWAN, an innovative urbanist practice in Rotterdam that focuses on urban processes; Vera Tangari, community activist ... |
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Parsons New York Fashion Week Date: September 5, 2012 - September 16, 2012 2:00 p.m. Parsons is… New York Fashion Week 2012. Join us or follow our hashtags, #ParsonsNYFW and #ParsonsMFAFashion for the first ever series of events starting September 5. Details on these events can be found by going to the Parsons Fashion Week news story... |
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Conversation Series Date: September 5, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Dean Collins Speaks with Nick Sullivan from Esquire about Massimo Osti... |
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Advertising & Higher Education Date: August 29, 2012 6:00 p.m. Connect with a diverse panel of industry experts and New School faculty and admission staff to learn about the pros and cons for advertising professionals pursuing graduate education.Featured panelists include:Vann Graves, vice president, global executive, and creative director at McCann EricksonGautam Ramdurai, strategist at Google LabsPaul Hardart, associate professor and director of The New School’s graduate Certificate in Media Management program.Michelle Materre, Assistant Professor at The ... |
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Open House Night 2012 Date: August 14, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Are you New School? Come to our open house and learn about continuing education courses and degree and certificate opportunities. Members of the faculty, admission counselors, and other New School representatives will be present to answer all your questions.Special Offers for Open House Night Attendees:Win a Free Continuing Education ClassRSVP online and check in at the Open House Information Desk and you'll be entered in a drawing to win a free continuing education course this fall. One course ... |
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Mind-Body Healing Through the Arts Session 4 - Theatre for Change: Applying Drama and Theatre to the Healing of Individuals and Communities Date: June 27, 2012 8:00 p.m. Creative arts therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an essential part of health care in our society. By tapping into deeply expressive aspects of body, mind, and spirit through such modalities as music, sound, imagery, role, and movement, creative art therapists facilitate self-actualization and healing within the therapeutic relationship. Prominent practitioners discuss principles and practice in this series of lecture/demonstrations.June 6Dance/Movement Therapy at the Nexus of Self and Com... |
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No Precedent: 2012 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers -- Exhibition Date: June 21, 2012 - August 3, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers (formerly known as the Young Architects Forum) is an annual juried competition and series of lectures and exhibitions organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. The lecture series and exhibition by winners of the competition provide a lively public forum for the discussion of their work and ideas. ... |
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Washington, DC Idealist Graduate School Fair Date: June 20, 2012 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Please join The New School Graduate Programs at the Washington, DC Idealist Grad Fair. Meet with New School Admission representatives as well as representatives from 63 other schools. At the fair, you can:Learn about a range of graduate programs offered by local, national and international universities.Engage with admissions advisors about specific programs, admissions requirements and application deadlines.Attend a panel discussion about admissions and financial aid. New School graduate progra... |
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Mind-Body Healing Through the Arts Session 3 - Creating Visual Communities: Art Therapy Directives that Connect our Clients Date: June 20, 2012 8:00 p.m. Creative arts therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an essential part of health care in our society. By tapping into deeply expressive aspects of body, mind, and spirit through such modalities as music, sound, imagery, role, and movement, creative art therapists facilitate self-actualization and healing within the therapeutic relationship. Prominent practitioners discuss principles and practice in this series of lecture/demonstrations. June 6Dance/Movement Therapy at the Nexus of Self and C... |
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New York Idealist Graduate School Fair Date: June 19, 2012 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Please join The New School Graduate Programs at the NYC Idealist Grad Fair. Meet with New School Admission representatives as well as representatives from 57 other schools. At the fair, you can:Learn about a range of graduate programs offered by local, national and international universities.Engage with admissions advisors about specific programs, admissions requirements and application deadlines.Attend a panel discussion about admissions and financial aid. New School graduate programs that wil... |
