Parsons School of Design is one of the world's leading art and design schools at The New School in NYC.
The New School's Parsons School of Design is one of the world's leading art and design schools. Our enlightened approach to design education and sustainability results in a passionate commitment to improving all aspects of society through inquiry, radical ideas, iterative experimentation, and creative collaboration.
06/15/2026
Andrew Bernheimer's (Associate Professor of Architecture) firm won a National AIA Housing Award for their affordable housing project, Beach Green Dunes III, in the Rockaways, with lighting design by Glenn Shrum (Associate Professor of Lighting Design & Interdisciplinary Practice).
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06/12/2026
Earlier this spring, Tory Burch and her team presented MFA Fashion Design students a challenge: reinterpret what classic American sportswear can look like today.
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06/11/2026
The Secret Astronomers, written and illustrated by Jessica Walker (Associate Professor of Integrated Design), is the Young Adult Winner of the 2026 Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Awards.
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06/11/2026
The fashion industry may be grappling with the onslaught of AI and commercialized sameness, but with the 2026 BFA Fashion Design graduate runway show, the next generation of fashion designers is having fun.
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06/10/2026
Spandiata Malik (MFA Photography '19) and Morgan Levy (Part-time Faculty of BFA Photography) are two of the four winners of the prestigious Victoria & Albert Museum Parasol Foundation prize for women in photography.
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06/05/2026
Harpreet Sareen (Associate Professor of Interaction and Media Design) is on a mission to turn the average houseplant into a sensor that can make city life safer, smarter, and more alive.
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06/04/2026
Architectural Digest highlighted the Parsons Healthy Materials Lab's booth at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair, calling the installation a "standout" and noting the workshops that would be hosted by the team of HML experts.
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06/03/2026
Charles Osawa (BFA Architectural Design '08) was featured among ten creative artists making a significant impact, whose work continues to shape conversations and leave a lasting impression on the global creative landscape.
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05/16/2026
"We, as humans, must continue maintaining the cultural touch points and differences that operate outside the mainstream, as this is what AI gets its intelligence from," say Mark Gardner (Associate Professor of Architectural Practice & Society and Director of Design Build Projects). "If you want something that exceeds the average, you have to cultivate difference."
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"Huge gap in how everyone understands AI and how industries understand it" says Parsons School of Design An emphasis on emotional depth and cultural nuance within the design process is among the priorities in creative education, says Mark Gardener, Parsons School of Design.
This spring, we teamed up with Adobe to explore one of the most pressing questions facing creative education today: What does it look like to learn, create, and grow as a designer in the age of AI?
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