Parsons HDCS

04/11/2019

Join us !
Graduate student symposium (tomorrow) Friday, April 12 10:00am - 4:00pm in the Lecture Hall at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/narratives-in-collaborative-design-graduate-student-symposium-tickets-59884548296

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Session Information:

10:40 Session 1

“Partners in Pedagogy: Katherine and Michael McCoy and the Cranbrook Design Program, 1971-1995”

Colin Fanning, Bard Graduate Center

11:00

“Twenty Years of Collaboration: The Making of the Korean ‘Textbook Typeface’”

Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung, Brown University

11:20

“A Fine Line: Gender, Design and the Legacy of the Folly Cove Designers”

Caroline House, The Graduate Center, CUNY

11:45

Q&A

--Lunch Break--

2:40 Session 2

“Molding Plywood, Molding Relationships: Marcel Breuer’s Isokon Long Chair”

Mina Warchavchik Hugerth, Parsons School of Design

3:00

“‘The World’s Best Hope for Peace’: The Circulating Exhibition as International Cooperation”

Nushelle de Silva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:20

“‘First the Skeleton, Then the Walls’: Designing Chinese Modernity at the National Central Museum in Nanjing 1929-1948”

Y.L. Lucy Wang, Columbia University

3:40

Q&A

04/11/2019

Join us!
Keynote by Pat Kirkham: "CHARLES AND RAY EAMES AND HOLLYWOOD: DESIGN FILM AND FRIENDSHIPS" (tonight) Thursday, April 11 at 5:30pm in the Lecture Hall at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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04/24/2018

Exciting news: We will be live streaming "Made in New York: The 27th Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium" this Thurs & Friday. Learn more and read the full program by clicking below!

Click here to access the Livestream for this event. A unique confluence of circumstances made New York City both a chief entrepot of early America and something of a cultural anomaly in the country. More diverse than many other American cities, even in the 18th century, a major center of immigration...

04/11/2018

Students in front of the Jan Martense Schenck house at Brooklyn Museum earlier this week for Dean Sarah E. Lawrence and Dr. Barry Harwood’s course, “The Period Room as Curatorial Practice”

04/03/2018

Students in Jeannine Falino’s ‘Survey of American Ceramics’ on site visits last week. Curator James Doyle shows students Mississippian ceramics at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and curator Debra Schmidt Bach guides students in handling objects at the New-York Historical Society

03/29/2018

Huge thanks to our alumni who returned last night to meet current students and talk professional aspirations, challenges and accomplishments. They hail from a diverse range of career paths, including curatorial, entrepreneurship and publications. We are , to say the least!

01/31/2018

MA History of Design and Curatorial Studies is pleased to announce the inaugural Parsons ADHT symposium, Unruly Design, scheduled to take place Friday and Saturday, March 2 and 3, 2018! Click the link for more details:

Theresa Lang Center55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Friday March 2, 2018 – 5:00 to 10:00 PM Saturday March 3, 2018 – 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM