Claudia Marina
Part-time Assistant Professor
Email
claudiamarina@newschool.edu
Office Location
K - 113 University Place
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Claudia Marina is a part-time assistant professor at Parsons School of Design. Her research is centered in feminist design discourse and theories of everyday life, particularly the spatial, material, and cultural conditions that distinguish design from other social practices.
Degrees Held
MA Design Studies, Parsons School of Design
BS Journalism, University of Florida
Professional Affiliation
Member, Society of Architectural Historians Affiliate Groups: Historic Interiors; Women in Architecture; Latin American Architectural Histories; Globalizing Architectural History Education
Member, Design History Society
Recent Publications
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Marina, Claudia. “On Calling Yourself a Designer." In Feminist Designer, edited by Alison Place. MIT Press, 2023.
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Marina, Claudia. “Preface to the 2020 Edition.” In Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, by Judy Attfield. Bloomsbury, 2020.
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Marina, Claudia. "Making and Unmaking the Ephemeral Object: Design, Consumption, and the Importance of Everyday Life in Understanding Design beyond the Studio.” Design & Culture 12, no. 3 (2020): 243–263.
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Marina, Claudia. “Checking in: David Adjaye’s Sugar Hill Project, Two Years Later.” The Avery Review 20. December 2016. http://averyreview.com/issues/20/sugar-hill-two-years-later.
Research Interests
design studies, architecture, interior design, material culture, sociology of design, anthropology, science and technology studies, poetics
Awards And Honors
Departmental Honor, MA Design Studies