Academic study and creative learning happen inside and outside of the classroom at The New School. Across the campus, students and faculty come together in interactive, collaborative spaces to rethink, redesign, and reimagine the world.
In these labs, centers, facilities, and institutes, scholarly rigor and intellectual freedom collide, generating groundbreaking work that challenges the way we traditionally approach problems and their solutions.
The Gromek Institute is an interdisciplinary hub that supports fashion business education, research, and professional engagement. It connects academia with industry across design, business, technology, and social impact, preparing future fashion and creative business leaders for the global fashion sector.
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research center and public forum for art, culture, and politics. Through compelling public programs, publications, exhibitions, curricula, and performances, the center develops and supports new roles for the arts and artists in advancing social justice.
The Tishman Environment and Design Center integrates bold design, policy, and social justice approaches to tackle the climate crisis and advance environmental justice.
The Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab is an action research laboratory that applies interdisciplinary expertise to sustainable practices and social innovation.
The Size Inclusion in Fashion (SIF) Lab is dedicated to promoting size inclusion, particularly for plus sizes, in fashion, bridging the gap between education, consumers, and industry.
The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center hosts exhibitions and events to promote active dialogue on the role of innovative art and design in responding to our contemporary world.
Parsons Entrepreneurial Lab (ELab) is a design-driven business lab dedicated to entrepreneurial research and practice, providing support and know-how to help students and recent alumni turn entrepreneurial ideas into thriving ventures.
By centering multispecies entanglements, the Multispecies Lab collective addresses the ongoing effects of the climate crisis on world-making to embrace multispecies flourishing and advance more-than-human design and scholarship.
The Housing Justice Lab is a platform for dialogue, research, and strategic design that advocates for equitable neighborhood development, housing justice, and community-driven development across cities.
The Healthy Materials Lab (HML) is a design research lab dedicated to transforming the way building products are manufactured, eliminating potential toxics, and supporting the creation of new healthier materials.
DEED (Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design) is a research laboratory focusing on the future of indigenous artisans and their children, including poverty alleviation, artisan empowerment, and cultural preservation.
The Consortium for Transdisciplinarity (CT/d) provides an institutional space for transdisciplinary research, teaching and learning, and community action.
Striving for a more just and equitable city, the Center for New York City Affairs is an applied policy research institute, dedicated to improving the effectiveness of public policies and services for under-resourced communities.
Through research, experimentation, and coalition building the lab investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming creative work across art, design, writing, and beyond.
The Prototyping, Education, and Technology Lab (PETLab) is a public interest game design and research lab for interactive media.
The New School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.