THE NEW SCHOOL PRESENTS ART AND DESIGN PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Fall 2010

Beekeeper, Living Concrete/Carrot City, ©Omlet.com

September 30, 2010—This fall, The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, presents a wide range of art and design public programs that build upon the university's mission to engage communities and foster social change and innovation.

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The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design will present a number of exhibitions on the themes of sustainable urban living, including Living Concrete/Carrot City (Oct. 1—Dec.15), which explores urban agriculture and its interconnections with design and social change. An opening reception on September 30 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. will feature creative “edible cocktails” by the Cross(x) Species Adventure Club, a cooking demonstration by students of the Summer Youth Employment Program (a partnership between BK Farmyards and Growing Leaders Brooklyn), and locally-made Hudson New York corn whiskey donated by Tuthilltown Spirits.

The Visualizing Finance Lab will present Visualizing Finance 1.0 (Oct. 22—25), a symposium and exhibition exploring how design can visually represent and communicate complex financial information. The Shape of Change (Oct.30—Nov.9), tracks the changes of the terms change, freedom, and democracy in the US and Iraq through a body of design work by students and faculty from across The New School, as well as Iraqi foreign exchange students.

The Fashion Studies program at Parsons will present Fashion in Film: Melodrama a weekly film screening series that examines the role fashion plays in shaping the melodramatic imagination. Featured films include Imitation of Life (Nov. 2), Lili Marleen (Nov. 9), and The 10th Victim (Dec. 7). Parsons will explore design thinking and its implications for the future with the Design and Existential Risk lecture series, featuring Geoff Manaugh (Oct. 9), Keller Easterling (Oct. 28), and Mark Wigley and Joel Towers (Dec. 2).

To commemorate the Brooklyn Rail's evolution from a broadsheet to an monthly journal covering art and poltics, Parsons will host An Evening in Celebration of The Brooklyn Rail's Tenth Anniversary (Nov. 29), which will feature a panel discussion and mixer with the founders and editors. In the spirit of conversation and dialogue, a number of speakers will also address key issues of art and design, including New York Times art critic Holland Cotter (Nov. 11); and historian, philosopher, and filmmaker Peter L. Galison (Oct. 20).

EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change.

About The New School
Located in the heart of New York's Greenwich Village, The New School is a center of academic excellence where intellectual and artistic freedoms thrive. Among its eight schools are Parsons The New School for Design, one of the world's most prestigious and comprehensive schools of art and design, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, an undergraduate, seminar-style liberal arts college with a comprehensive arts curriculum. Among its many centers is the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, which serves as a catalyst for discourse on the role of the arts in society and their relationship with the socio-political climate in which they are created. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu.

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