Parsons School of Design

10/26/2026

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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10/26/2026

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.

Highlights from new-media showcase ‘Continuum ’26’ in Diriyah

10/23/2026

“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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10/22/2026

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.

10/19/2026

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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10/19/2026

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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10/16/2026

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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10/16/2026

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.

The New School's Parsons School of Design recently presented The New ADU: Beyond Petroleum exhibition in its campus’s 5th Avenue welcome

10/15/2026

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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10/14/2026

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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