The New School Archives And Special Collections

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This record group consists of catalogs with descriptions of undergraduate thesis projects created by students in the Parsons School of Design Communication Design BFA program, as well as posters from the 2017-2018 Thesis Book Launch event.

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Collection consists of senior-level student work produced during the first five graduating classes of Parsons School of Design's Integrated Design Curriculum program.

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This collection contains senior thesis publications for the Integrated Design Program (IDP) at Parsosn School of Design. The IDP is a transdisciplinary BFA program in design, with a focus on applying design thinking to contemporary social issues. IDP students in their senior year complete a capstone project. These publications document these student projects for 2022, 2023 and 2024.

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The Parsons School of Design Centenary Oral History Project consists of recorded sound interviews with twelve individuals as well as two audio monologues by the project's manager, Martica Sawin. The interviews, recorded in 1994, cover the history of different academic departments and design disciplines over the course of the twentieth century as experienced by former and then-current instructors and administrators. Recordings are all in English.

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This collection consists of publications from Parsons New School of Design and its affiliate programs, including catalogs for overseas schools, and continuing education and AAS programs. Catalogs hold information on school policies and admissions requirements, course descriptions, faculty rosters, and examples of student work. Materials for the years 1896-1912 consists primarily of photocopies of print advertisements for the Chase School of Art.

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This collection consists of a publication, posters, and images from the semester-long project created by graduate students in Otto von Busch's course Critical Making + Activism, offered in the fall of 2025 through Parsons School of Design's School of Design Strategies.

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This collection consists of audio interviews with alumni of Parsons School of Design recorded between 2013 and 2015. Interviewees include James Drake, Nancye Green, Michael Donovan, Marc Jacobs, Dee McDonald-Miller, and Kay Unger. Interviewers include Executive Dean of Parsons Joel Towers and The New School Archives Director Wendy Scheir. The interviews are retained as digital files.

Summary This small record group documents two New York City-based projects taught by Parsons School of Design professor Jean McClintock Gardner in the early 1970s. One project focused on the Southern Boulevard Redemption Area in the Bronx, the other on Union Square in Manhattan. These projects involved original research and urban rehabilitation design proposals by students in the Environmental Design Department (now the School of Constructed Environments). Materials include a grant application, an...

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Audio and video recordings of events and promotional spots sponsored by various departments of the Parsons School of Design from 1982 and 2006.

Summary A collection of approximately thirty discrete audio recordings documenting designer critic sessions in the Fashion Design Department of Parsons School of Design. Designer critics include Parsons School of Design alumni, such as Adri, Jeffrey Banks, Donald Brooks, Louis Dell'Olio, Isaac Mizrahi, Charlotte Neuville, and Tracy Reese, as well as frequent visitors Stan Herman and Gloria Sachs and longtime faculty members Frank Rizzo and Marie Essex. The recordings were made during...