Faculty

Claudia Marina is a design historian, writer, and educator whose work explores feminist design discourse, the politics of everyday life, and the cultural production of interiors. She is a  Part-Time Associate Teaching Professor at Parsons School of Design, where she teaches courses in design history, theory, and critical interior studies across undergraduate and graduate programs.   Her research examines how design knowledge circulates through media, pedagogy, and institutional frameworks, with particular attention to questions of authorship, maintenance, and language. Her writing has appeared in Design and Culture, The Avery Review, and edited volumes including Feminist Designer (MIT Press). At Parsons, she develops interdisciplinary approaches to teaching design history that foreground critical literacy, visual analysis, and experimental forms of historical storytelling. Her courses position interiors as sites of social negotiation, exploring how spatial practice intersects with gender, labor, and everyday experience.

MA Design Studies, Parsons School of Design

BS Journalism, University of Florida

• Marina, Claudia. “Toward a Horizontal Historiography of Design: Interiors as Mediated Sites of Knowledge.” AIS/Design: Storia e Ricerche 13, no. 24 (2026): 81–105.
• Dore, Mayane, Claudia Marina, Gizem Öz, and Dora Vanette. “In-Between Spaces: Reflections on the Emerging Scholars Workshop.” Design and Culture 17, no. 3 (2025): 353–373.
• 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 and Culture 12, no. 3 (2020): 243–63.
• 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.