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 embodied conditions that distinguish design from other social practices.
Degrees Held
MA Design Studies, Parsons School of Design
BS Journalism, University of Florida
Professional Affiliation
Society of Architectural Historians
Design History Society
Recent Publications
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Dore, Mayane, Claudia Marina, Gizem Öz, and Dora Vanette. “In-Between Spaces: Reflections on the Emerging Scholars Workshop.” Design and Culture (2025): 1–21. doi:10.1080/17547075.2025.2531605
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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 and Culture 12, no. 3 (2020): 243–63. doi:10.1080/17547075.2020.1796373.
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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