Claudia Marina
Part-time Lecturer
Email
claudiamarina@newschool.edu
Office Location
K - 113 University Place
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Claudia Marina is a Part-time Lecturer at Parsons School of Design. She is a design writer and editor, having written for publications like Metropolis, The Avery Review, and Design and Culture. Her research interests include the intersection of design and anthropology, spatial studies, interiority, ephemeral materiality, consumption, and the politics of design institutions on broader cultures of productivity and rationalization in everyday life. She teaches architecture and interior design history and theory as well as design studies research and writing classes.
Degrees Held
MA Design Studies, Parsons School of Design
BS Journalism, University of Florida
Recent Publications
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): 243–263, DOI: 10.1080/17547075.2020.1796373.
Marina, Claudia. Preface to the 2020 Edition of Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life, by Judy Attfield, xiv–xxii. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Marina, Claudia. “Checking in: David Adjaye’s Sugar Hill Project, Two Years Later,” in The Avery Review 20 (December 2016), http://averyreview.com/issues/20/sugar-hill-two-years-later.
Research Interests
interior design, material culture, anthropology, design/studio culture, kitsch, spatial studies, theories of everyday life, objectification