PSDS
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Collab:

Parsons School of Design: School of Design Strategies

Non-Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Degree Students
Collab: Design/Build the City
Fall 2024
Taught By: Carolin Mees
Section: A

CRN: 17456

Credits: 3

The course will engage community residents, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, students and faculty in a design-build project focused on a community-engaged design of open space furniture. The design build course will use inexpensive, readily available materials that can be turned into furniture with basic tools. Students will design furniture kits ranging from a table to a bench and a stool in numerous ways to create furniture that responds to the preferences of the community and adapts to a variety of sites throughout New York City. This course will have offsite visits to community gardens throughout this Friday/Saturday intensive happening the first month of the semester.

Open to: All university undergraduate degree students.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 15

Add/Drop Deadline: September 1, 2024 (Sunday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: September 20, 2024 (Friday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Closed*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:18am EDT 10/15/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Friday
Times: 9:00am - 2:40pm
Building: Parsons 2 W 13th
Room: 905
Date Range: 8/30/2024 - 9/27/2024
Days: Saturday
Times: 9:00am - 2:40pm
Building: Parsons 2 W 13th
Room: 905
Date Range: 9/7/2024 - 9/21/2024
Collab: Food + Design
Spring 2025
Taught By: Stefani Bardin
Section: A

CRN: 5265

Credits: 3

This Project based studio will focus on the intersection of food, design, and systems thinking. This Class looks through the lens of the multifaceted food system to develop scalable and actionable design outcomes that discover and respond to ruptures in the food system. Each iteration of this studio elective will address a particular theme as it pertains to food design. This year’s theme will be Food Waste. Outcomes will be comprised of prototypes and small scale design interventions.

Open to: All university undergraduate degree students.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 15

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:18am EDT 10/15/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Thursday
Times: 12:10pm - 2:50pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/20/2025 - 5/14/2025
Collab: Performing Art+Design
Spring 2025
Taught By: Robert Rabinovitz
Section: B

CRN: 11850

Credits: 3

This Project based studio will focus on ideas and work surrounding any and all of forms of Design and The Performing Arts. Students will be asked to seek and nurture collaborations with other students, faculty, and artists within the New School community or with other institutions. Collaborations locally and remotely are encouraged within both The Performing Arts and Design. Students can explore traditional or non traditional media as well as new and emerging digital and social media in their Collab projects. Once explored, outcomes, schedules, and final deliverables will be created and agreed upon by both the student(s) and faculty member. Projects can emerge from individuals or in small groups of students. Today there is a deep and sincere need to celebrate and embrace creation and human connections in all forms. We want to be able to connect and express ourselves emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. We will look at ways we can connect, create and share with others what we manifest toward all forms. Works and ideas will be supported to explore and express via art, music, film, poetry, objects and environments including mixed media and multiple platforms and outputs.

Open to: All university undergraduate degree students.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 15

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:18am EDT 10/15/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Wednesday
Times: 9:00am - 11:40am
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/20/2025 - 5/14/2025
Collab: Design with NYC Dogs
Spring 2025
Taught By: Anna Berger
Section: C

CRN: 14882

Credits: 3

In this multidisciplinary collab students will obtain dog fur from their local grooming center and learn the wet felting technique to create their own material. Using this material, they will be expected to design art pieces, products, or accessories. After developing their designs, students will be introduced to the fundamentals of visual concept creation, from brainstorming ideas for presenting their work to transforming those ideas into images. These hyper-local products will be captured photographically to add this project that is sourced, crafted and designed entirely in NYC to student portfolios.

Open to: All university undergraduate degree students.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 15

Add/Drop Deadline: February 3, 2025 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 15, 2025 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:18am EDT 10/15/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Tuesday
Times: 9:00am - 11:40am
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 1/20/2025 - 5/6/2025
Collab: Jewelry & Artifact
Spring 2025
Taught By: Faculty TBA
Section: D

CRN: 15872

Credits: 3

This short intensive studio-based course will take place over three consecutive weekends and aims to approach the making of Jewelry and Artifact, adopting innovative approaches to both creative making drawing on an expansive use of materials. Students will be encouraged to adopt a self-directed and critical methodology towards their work, documenting their process throughout, producing an archive of their work to support the future understanding of their practice. The course will include visits to galleries and museums to assist in the understanding and framing of their own practice through in-depth analysis and group discussions. The students will be encouraged to interrogate traditional notions of what jewelry and artifact and how their own practice can be framed in the future, drawing on new business thinking and storytelling through original visual communication.

Open to: All university undergraduate degree students.

College: Parsons School of Design (PS)

Department: School of Design Strategies (SDS)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 15

Add/Drop Deadline: February 9, 2025 (Sunday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: February 22, 2025 (Saturday)

Seats Available: Yes

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 1:18am EDT 10/15/2024

Meeting Info:
Days: Saturday, Sunday
Times: 9:00am - 5:40pm
Building: TBD
Room: TBD
Date Range: 2/8/2025 - 2/23/2025