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  • Claudia Marina

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    claudiamarina@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    K - 113 University Place

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    Claudia Marina

    Profile

    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

    • Marina, Claudia. “On Calling Yourself a Designer." In Feminist Designer, edited by Alison Place. MIT Press, 2023.
    • Marina, Claudia. “Preface to the 2020 Edition.” In Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, by Judy Attfield. Bloomsbury, 2020.
    • 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.
    • 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


    Current Courses

    ID Histories and Theories 1
    PAID 1040, Fall 2025

    ID Histories and Theories 2
    PAID 1041, Fall 2025

    Interior Design Survey
    PGID 5015, Fall 2025

    Intro to Design Studies Lec
    PLDS 2500, Fall 2025

    Future Courses

    ID Histories and Theories 3
    PAID 1095, Spring 2026

    Intro to Design Studies Lec
    PLDS 2500, Spring 2026

    Theory of the Interior
    PGID 5111, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    ID Histories and Theories 3
    PAID 1095, Spring 2025

    Intro to Arch Theory: Lec
    PLSD 2200, Spring 2025

    Intro to Design Studies Lec
    PLDS 2500, Spring 2025

    Theory of the Interior
    PGID 5111, Spring 2025

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