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PARSONS PRESENTS AFTERTASTE: MOVING IN Fourth Annual Symposium of Parsons MFA Interior Design Program
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NEW YORK, March 15, 2010 – Parsons The New School for Design will present AFTERTASTE: Moving In on Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3, at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. This annual international symposium is dedicated to the critical review of the interior, and was developed in conjunction with a new MFA program in Interior Design that Parsons launched this past fall. The groundbreaking program addresses the challenges and opportunities of contemporary interior design in the 21st century, and integrates history, theory, design, material experimentation and sustainable practice.
This fourth annual event will explore the ideas, skills and areas of specialist knowledge that are “moving in” to expand interior design practice, and the challenges of creating more sustainable interiors. Presentations will include case studies of interior spaces conceived by a broad range of actors that include interior designers, architects, exhibition designers, artists, engineers, furniture manufacturers, fabricators and clients. Claudy Jongstra, a Dutch designer who creates innovative wool textiles for interiors, most recently in an installation at Lincoln Center, will be the keynote speaker.
Among the panelists are Margit Geist, Workplace Consultant, Vitra; Alexa Griffith Winton, Design Historian and Faculty Member at Parsons; Robin Guenther, Principal of Perkins+Will; Kitty Hawks, Principal of Kitty Hawks Inc. and Interior Design Faculty Member at Parsons; Melanie Ide, Project Director, Ralph Applebaum Associates; Alexander Kitnick, Art and Design Critic and Historian; David Lewis, Director of the Parsons Design Workshop, and Principal of LTL Architects; Paul Makovsky, Editorial Director, Metropolis; Joanna Merwood, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Parsons; Jonsara Ruth, Director of Parsons MFA Interior Design Program and Design Director of Q Collection; Susan Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis; Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Professor of Design and Sustainability at Parsons; Alex Wilson, Executive Editor, Environmental Building News; Jonathan Wybar, Director of Constructionn Waste Management; Susan Yelavich, Assistant Professor of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons; Christina Zeidler, Film and Video Artist, and President of The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto; and Alfred Zollinger, Assistant Professor of Interior Design at Parsons, and Principal of Matter Practice.
AFTERTASTE is free and open to the general public. For more information, please visit sce.parsons.edu/aftertaste.
AFTERTASTE is presented by the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, the only integrated school of interior design, lighting design, product design and architecture in the country. In addition to the new MFA in Interior Design, the school encompasses a Master of Architecture, Master of Fine Arts in Lighting Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architectural Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product Design, and Associates Degree in Interior Design. Parsons established the first interior design program in the nation in 1906. For more information on the School of Constructed Environments, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/sce.
Parsons The New School for Design is one of the most comprehensive and prestigious institutions of art and design education in the world. The School of Constructed Environments is one of five thematic schools that Parsons has created to better facilitate interdisciplinary study. These also include The School of Art, Media and Technology (Fine Art, Photography, Illustration, Communication Design, and Design and Technology); The School of Fashion; The School of Design Strategies (Foundation, Integrated Design Curriculum, Design & Management, Environmental Studies, and proposed thematic graduate programs in Sustainability, Urban and Trans-disciplinary Design); and The School of Art and Design History and Theory. For more information, visit www.newschool.edu/parsons.
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