Parsons

The Gromek Institute explored how Hearst, Leoni, and Scott have built authority in the fashion industry still shaped by unequal power and how different their paths were. The women talked about hurdles they face every day, even at the top. tinyurl.com/2ds49t2b

"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 and Society. Read more: dezeen.com/2026/05/13/gap…

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? Read more: adobe.design/ideas/creativi…

Arch Digest Pro highlights Parsons’s Healthy Materials Lab as a standout at this year's ICFF, now in its 36th year, where they will host a series of open workshops including sessions on carbon literacy and the newest developments in non-toxic paints. architecturaldigest.com/story/nycxdesi…

Sugandha Gupta (Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Materiality) was commissioned by the Costume Institute to create two looks for their permanent collection. One is currently on display as part of Costume Art, a new exhibition at The Met. tinyurl.com/3rvrz3av

Geoffry Gertz (Director of AAS Fashion Design and AAS Fashion Marketing & Communication), Tiffany Webber (Assistant Professor of Fashion Management), and Emily Bennet (AAS Fashion Design '27) discuss how social media drives consumers to brands. tinyurl.com/ydad43w6

Annabelle Schneider (Interior Design AAS ‘18 and MFA ‘23) debuts Renaissance of the Real, created in partnership with the Swiss furniture brand USM and the international architecture firm Snøhetta. tinyurl.com/yc4nr8mz

For 20 years, the Tishman Environment and Design Center has been providing essential research, working with government and civic and community organizations, and training the next generation of climate and environmental justice innovators. tinyurl.com/2vc6bvba

Ana María Gutiérrez (BFA Architectural Design alum) develops her practice in Colombia within Fundación Organismo, a collective platform dedicated to vernacular construction, ecological research, and community-based architectural processes. tinyurl.com/3aaajezz

A+A+A, a firm co-founded by Andrea Chiney, Ashely Kuo, and Arianna Deane (Co-Director of the MFA Interior Design Program and Assistant Professor of Interiors), received recognition from The American Institute of Architects and The Architect's Newspaper.

Emily Huggard (Assistant Professor of Fashion Communication) spoke with The New York Times about the growing trend of fashion brands featuring older women in their ad campaigns and runway shows. tinyurl.com/djpzkjxu

Moving from repairing to making watches is tougher than Mr. Qian has made it seem. “There’s one thing to repair things as they exist, it’s another thing to rethink things,” said Rama Chorpash (Associate Professor of Product Design). tinyurl.com/2b8tn258

Colleigh Stein (Assistant Director of Academic Communications and MFA Creative Writing '26) spoke about how The Pitt’s weekly release model and the evolution of viewing habits and social media spaces has shaped fan discourse. tinyurl.com/2tukhpw4

Evan Ajuria (BFA Product Design '26) was fed up with the lighting in his own apartment, so he developed KAMI, a lighting solution that has quickly been embraced by renters throughout the country. tinyurl.com/2skwt89s

Sam Lavigne (Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media and Algorithmic Justice) spoke about a tool he created that slows down AI chatbots, which he hopes will inspire people to reconsider how they engage with AI. tinyurl.com/26eya59r

New Dialogues is a podcast that brings you inside The New School’s most compelling conversations, where leading faculty and world-renowned speakers from design, arts, and research challenge conventional thinking and reimagine our future. tinyurl.com/4dv2nbfz

Alison Mears and Jonsara Ruth, co-founders of the Healthy Materials Lab, discuss how they've developed their initiative over the past 10 years, and why material selection is so important in contemporary architecture practice. tinyurl.com/229sbtjr

Orfeas Skutelis (Part-time Media Studies Faculty) in collaboration with choreographer/dancer, Liz Gerring, presented Intersection, a dance video installation set within a multi-channel sound environment at The Shirley Project Space. tinyurl.com/bde47xpm

Bill Kartalopoulos (Media Studies '13) has curated an exhibit with co-curator Frédéric Acquaviva featuring a little-known, pre-Situationist avant-garde movement that he began researching as a student in Professor McKenzie Wark's class. tinyurl.com/yeyv8eab

Thanks to the school’s cutting-edge, interdisciplinary curriculum, Parsons has been named the top art and design school in the country, according to the definitive QS World Rankings, and is #3 globally. tinyurl.com/2ewp6aa2