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Carolina Obregón (Assistant Prof of Fashion Design) & President Joel Towers discuss the impact that the Fashion industry has on climate change & what some of the solutions are to reduce it, as part of “A Climate for Change”, a University documentary.
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Ana Baptista, Associate Professor of Environmental and Climate Justice, reports on recent developments in the fight to clean up New Jersey’s Passaic River and end industrial pollution.
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Constructed Environments faculty members Mark Gardner and Hyon Woo Scott Chung received Envision Resilience's 2026 National Design Studio Grant which supports 10 faculty-led design studios exploring community-driven approaches to climate adaptation.
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Designer Anna Sui (BFA Fashion Design graduate and Parsons Board of Governors member) brings her distinctive style home to her hometown of Detroit at "The World of Anna Sui" exhibition organized by the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
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The New ADU: Beyond Petroleum is an exhibition of designs for Accessory Dwelling Units using biogenic materials by Parsons M. Arch students, from the Spring 2026 Design Workshop course taught by professors David J. Lewis and Dr. Sharon E. Sutton.
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The New School Archives and Special Collections recently unveiled Mid-Century Masters: War, Migration, and Scholarship which showcases master’s theses written by students affected by war and migration.
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About a third of the NYC's waste is compostable. Mandatory composting "could significantly reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills by diverting food scraps," said Ana Baptista (Associate Professor of Environmental and Climate Justice).
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Aatika Hayat (AAS Interior Design) was recently awarded the SARA New York Design Merit Award, the SARA New York and Saatva Grant, and the ASID Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award, Honorable Mention.
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Harpreet Sareen's (Associate Professor of Interaction & Media Design) piece, Echoes of the Unseen New-Media Showcase Continuum’26, explores captivity as one of the familiar arrangements through which humans organize relationships with other species.
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“Style has a lot more impact than people realize,” Tianyun Lan (BFA Fashion Design '25), NY based stylist at Cello who works in the editorial industry, said. “It changes how you see yourself, but also influences how the world interacts with you.”
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Harpreet Sareen's (Associate Professor of Interaction and Media Design) piece, Echoes of the Unseen, in New-Media Showcase Continuum ’26 explores captivity as one of the oldest and most familiar arrangements through which humans organize relationships with other species.
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Danit Weitzman's (MFA Design & Technology '25) thesis project, The Shape of Feeling, won the Liam Otero Prize for Ki Smith Gallery's annual Critics Choice exhibition.
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Architect Aya Maceda (Part-Time Assistant Professor) transformed a Brooklyn loft into a functional live/work environment by creating the "box-bed," a birch plywood structure that is a cross between architecture and furniture.
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HIV Unwrapped at NYFW paired up-and-coming Parsons student artists with HIV experts, Demetre Daskalakis, Allison Agwu and LaRon Nelson. Models including Lionel Moise, Shia Ho and Michael Macneal helped turn molecular science into runway-ready looks.
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David Lewis and Dr. Sharon E. Sutton led the Design Workshop studio last spring to look at ADU for You, which has legalized ADUs in New York City for over two years. The students' fiber, wood, and mineral designs embrace bio-based building materials.
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New School students designed creative responses to eco-anxiety for the course "The Future We Want to Run Toward: Managing Eco-anxiety Through Collective Imagination." Some of their work was shown during NYC Climate Week.
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Under the Pasig City Local Government Unit and Mayor Vico Sotto, the city developed the floating parks concept in collaboration with Alao Design Studio (co-founded by Aya Maceda) and PGAA Creative Design.
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"The modern conservatory must balance a deep study of the traditional operatic canon with an equally rigorous engagement with 21st-century opera", Mannes faculty members Emma Griffin and Cris Frisco write.
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For Ohio-born designer Edward Buchanan (BFA Fashion Design '95), Black industry mentors changed his life. Rodney Patterson gave him a tip off about an opening at Bottega Veneta, where he would become the first ready-to-wear design director.
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Mannes Opera presents Suor Angelica, a one-act tragedy following a nun whose past holds a mysterious scandal. Cris Frisco, Assistant Professor of Music, conducts the chamber orchestration featuring the church's organ, directed by Mikhaela Mahony.
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