The New School
Exhibitions and Public Programs
2005 FALL PREVIEW: ART AND DESIGN

Information
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9-9; Sat-Sun 10-6; closed major holidays
Admission: Free
Information: 212-229-8919 or visit www.parsons.edu/events

Exhibitions

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons: A Celebration
September 14 - November 8, 2005
Parsons The New School for Design**
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66 Fifth Avenue

This exhibition will celebrate the creation of a new campus center at Parsons, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, designed by Lyn Rice Architects, formerly of OpenOffice. The design of the center will create a new street-level presence for the school at its Fifth Avenue and 13th Street location, and feature public gathering spaces, state-of-the-art galleries, lecture and meeting spaces, a design store, and a new home for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives, a significant collection of drawings, photographs, letters, and objects documenting 20th century American design. The exhibition will preview the new center through drawings and models, in addition to highlighting current and recent work by Lyn Rice, including the Dia:Beacon by OpenOffice, and introduce the center’s benefactor, the noted philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television.
 

Designing the Taxi
November 1 - November 23, 2005
Parsons The New School for Design
Gallery at 2 West 13th Street
This exhibition will present new concepts for New York’s most iconic mode of transportation, the taxi cab, as it approaches its centennial in 2007. Organized by the New-York-based non-profit organization, The Design Trust for Public Space, in cooperation with Parsons, the project brings together leading artists, designers, public officials, transportation experts, and taxi industry representatives to rethink and transform the New York City taxi. The exhibition will present new concepts for improving the taxi, which were generated through workshops held this past spring. Designing the Taxi addresses not only the design but the complex economic, social and cultural issues associated with the taxi, such as energy efficiency, accessibility for the disabled, and other quality-of-life concerns.
 

Anarchy to Affluence: Design in New York, 1974 -1984
January 10 - April 2, 2006
Parsons The New School for Design
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66 Fifth Avenue
This exhibition will examine for the first time the important interiors, furniture, graphics, fashion and illustration produced in New York between 1974 -1984, a period in which downtown New York artists, musicians, playwrights and designers created some of the most avant-garde work produced in America during the last century. This period was a time of anxiety and uncertainty in New York: the city declared bankruptcy, crime levels peaked, the very first cases of AIDS were detected, and areas such as Soho were still primarily commercial. It was also a time of unprecedented creativity, marked by the birth of Punk, both as a style and a form of music; the rise of fashion designers such as Patricia Field, Stephen Sprouse, and Betsy Johnson who revolutionized traditional forms, colors and materials; and a movement toward industrial austerity in interior and graphic design, as practiced by designers such as Massimo and Lella Vignelli. Curated by Christopher Mount, Parsons Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs, the exhibition is being held in conjunction with New York University’s Grey Art Gallery exhibition “The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984.”


Public Programs

Design for Change: A Symposium on Design, Social Responsibility, and Nonprofit Organizations
Friday, September 23, 9am-6pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Theresa Lang Student and Community Center, 55 West 13th Street

What is the role of design in advancing the public good? How can nonprofit organizations effectively leverage design to help them achieve their missions? These are questions that faculty and students at Parsons have explored over the years through dynamic collaborations with nonprofit organizations in a variety of fields. This symposium brings together design educators and practitioners and nonprofit administrators to discuss the role of design in addressing larger social issues. The daylong program will include panel discussions, presentations of case studies, and opportunities for informal dialogue, and will feature a keynote lecture by David Bornstein, the author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas.

TICKET INFO: $25 for members of the public; $10 for students; and free for students, faculty, staff and alumni of The New School. Tickets can be purchased at the New School Box Office, contact 212-212-229-5488 or [email protected] (the box office will be closed until September 6 - for registration prior to September 6 please contact the box office via email).
 

Lawrence Scarpa, Architecture or Interiors?
PUGH + SCARPA Architects, Los Angeles
Thursday September 29, 6.15-7.30pm
Parsons The New School for Design
25 East 13th Street, Second Floor
Lawrence Scarpa explains his work in terms of an interdisciplinary approach in which the limits between the traditionally distinct practices of architecture, interior design and construction are eroded, and how that process produces extraordinary results faster and more economically than traditional models. His Santa Monica, CA, based firm PUGH + SCARPA has received 27 major design awards including seven consecutive national AIA Honor Awards and a “Top Ten Green Building” Award. He is a co-founder of Livable Places, Inc., a nonprofit development and public policy organization dedicated to building mixed-use housing on under-utilized and problematic parcels of land.
 

Ada Karmi-Melemedi, Recent Work
Thursday October 20, 6.15-7.30pm
Parsons The New School for Design
25 East 13th Street, Second Floor
Renowned Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melemedi presents her work, focusing on architecture in the public realm. She will discuss the transformation of public spaces in the urban context and the natural landscape, beginning with the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem through to the recently completed Open University Campus in northern Tel-Aviv.
 

Parsons The New School for Design** is one of the largest degree-granting colleges of art and design in the nation, with more than 3,000 students in degree programs, and 2,500 non-degree students from all 50 states and approximately 60 countries. The School�s dean is Paul Goldberger, the Pulitzer-prize winning architecture and design critic and writer. Parsons has been a forerunner in the field of art and design since its founding in 1896. Parsons� rigorous programs and distinguished faculty embrace curricular innovation, pioneer new uses of technology, and instill in students a global perspective in design. For more information, visit www.parsons.newschool.edu.

**Parsons, a division of The New School, has changed its name to Parsons The New School for Design as part of a new university-wide identity program, please visit identity.newschool.edu for more information.