The New School Archives And Special Collections

This record group consists of print and digital text, video, and image files documenting theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's master's program in fashion studies, situated in the School of Art and Design History and Theory.

Printed publicity materials including but not limited to circulars, mailers, promotional booklets and pamphlets, and postcards generally advertising Parsons School of Design, or a particular course or program of study not connected to a specific department. Also includes a small number of audiovisual recordings in various formats, presumably made for promotional purposes.

The Parsons School of Design Master of Arts Design Studies program was established to encourage the study of design as a transdisciplinary discipline with the goal of preparing students to become active agents of social change. The collection consists of physical and electronic files documenting the program's development and planning, and reporting on its progress, as well as syllabi and video recordings of a 2014 symposium.

The Parsons School of Design Master of Arts (MA) Design Studies program was launched in 2012 with the aim of exploring design as "a field of scholarly research and an agent of social change." The program became a minor in 2018. This collection contains student theses from 2014-2020, representing all graduating classes in the program's history as a major, and its first two years as a minor.

This record group consists of text files of theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's MA program in History of Design and Curatorial Studies.

This record group consists of text, video, and audio files documenting theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's MFA program in Design and Technology.

This record group consists of print theses created by students in Parsons School of Design's MFA program in Industrial Design, situated within the School of Constructed Environments.

Collection consists of theses written by students in the Parsons School of Design MFA Lighting Design program.

This record group consists of graduate theses created by students in the Parsons School of Design Photography MFA program.

The theses consist of mixed-media digital images, video, and Microsoft PowerPoint files. Also included are Microsoft Word doc and pdf files containing artist statements.

This collection contains the records of the Office of the Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design. Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings and press releases, syllabi and other course-related material, and printed promotional material. These records were created during the tenures of four Parsons deans: H. Randolph Swearer (1998-2004), Paul Goldberger (2004-2006), Timothy Marshall (2006-2009), and Joel Towers (2009-2019).