Parsons’ MFA in Transdisciplinary Design is an academic lab in New York City for grad students seeking to define the next phase of design practice globally.

New York, USA
Joined July 2016
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UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit starting today:
Today is the day. And the world is NOT in Paris. The world is at our finger tips, on-line. The next era of globalisation has begun. Stay local, be global. Join the Futures Literacy Summit to learn about the power of our imagination and dancing with comple…lnkd.in/ecubCMG
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Parsons Transdisciplinary Design retweeted
It’s an honor for @SDSParsons to be hosting a virtual booth at this year’s @UNESCO #FuturesLiteracy summit. I’m grateful for @designbeing_’s leadership & collaboration with @EPMID @ParsonsTransD students & many others representing #ParsonsFutures. Join us! event.newschool.edu/unescofu…
Join the @UNESCO #FuturesLiteracy Summit, happening now. Here's what you'll find: ➡️The Expo Agora, featuring 100 booths ➡️The Plenary, where 40 world leaders talk about Futures Literacy & why it is an essential skill ➡️240 FREE events Register now: unes.co/flsregister
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Cheers to the launching of Memories from the Year 2030 series curated by our TD faculty member Elliott P. Montgomery, with editorial assistance by TD student Miriam Young!
Hindsight is 2030, a series curated by designer Elliott P. Montgomery. Futurists, scholars, and artists share their speculative nostalgias from a time ahead. Reflecting on the futurepast ten years from now, these essays look at 2020 from the view of 2030→ wlkr.art/3922gSH
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We had a beautiful final session of #synthesis to wrap up this moment of #designresearch @ParsonsTransD 💫
such an inspiring quote today from our design-led research class at @ParsonsTransD... a great way to start the weekend. Thanks, y'all!
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Parsons Transdisciplinary Design retweeted
such an inspiring quote today from our design-led research class at @ParsonsTransD... a great way to start the weekend. Thanks, y'all!
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🙌 Congrats to Eduardo Staszowski and Virginia Tassinari for the truly unique and timely book Designing in Dark Times An Arendtian Lexicon @TheNewSchool @parsonsdesign @SDSParsons @ParsonsTransD @BloomsburyDsign
Official publication date is on November 12 but receiving our copies on Arendt's birthday was a true gift. Pre-order here: bit.ly/354T2kM @BloomsburyDsign @virgitassinari
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With everything going on, proud I was able to pull off hosting a global academic conference. Really only possible thanks to the operations team @SDSParsons, and co-organizers @daveowhite @hannahchyde @artisteducator #PeterBenz #ClaudiaRoeschmann. #DEL20 Nice recap below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
If you weren't able to join us for #DEL20, check out our new Twitter moment to explore many of the tweets from during the conference. ⚡️ “DEL 2020” xitter.cf/i/moments/114714956955…
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Congratulations to our alumni Tina Qi 19' ! Her thesis project Cultural Crosspoint was awarded @Core77's Student Notable Award, under the Strategy and Research category.
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‘We’ll learn how to dance with methods’, @nicole_anand while introducing Design-led Research a course co-taught by John Bruce during the fall semester at TD.
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Done with intensive!! This community is truly a blessing 🌠 @ParsonsTransD
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This Friday! Cloud Salon will feature @maxwellmutanda, a pluridisciplinary researcher and visual artist whose data visualisation and architectural practice investigates the role of globalisation, climate and technology within the built environment. Join us on Zoom 99889877382.
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Parsons Transdisciplinary Design retweeted
Super excited to be sharing some work at @parsons_dt followed by a Q&A moderated by @ParsonsTransD @EPMID!
This Friday! Cloud Salon will feature @maxwellmutanda, a pluridisciplinary researcher and visual artist whose data visualisation and architectural practice investigates the role of globalisation, climate and technology within the built environment. Join us on Zoom 99889877382.
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Our #designresearch @ParsonsTransD has already led us to question the need to reduce ambiguity & instead explore how we might embrace & celebrate #uncertainty. While this article is interesting, it continues to make *certainty* our "normal" & our goal. mck.co/3iFFaDq
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Higher #learning will grow in this moment. Faculty @ParsonsTransD have transformed the program & students are engaging in vastly different ways. It's been an encouraging & inspiring first 2 weeks. In #designresearch we're exploring how we facilitate within new (normals).
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What we’re reading this week, "Leaning In: The Importance of Socio-material Interaction at the Brooklyn Public Library” by @ParsonsTransD & @NSSRNews student Zishan Jiwani @TherealZishan, published in @ParsonsADHT’s PLOT(S) journal. ➡️ adht.parsons.edu/designstudi… cc @squeamishy
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Replying to @PantheaLee
@PantheaLee shares her experience/wisdom/light on co-creation. Everyone should read this carefully @desisparsons @ParsonsTransD @desisnetwork Thanks Panthea
I have 5 invites in my inbox to "co-create the future”. I’ve architected, negotiated, led a lot of co-creation work. True co-creation. With stakeholders from diverse backgrounds (regionally, economically, politically, culturally) + some that hate each other. What I've learned:
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#FromtheTransDArchives Translocal Tomorrows:Juxtaposing Continuities, Identities and Belonging to Empower and Mobilize Hmong Youth in America, by Winnie Chang and Ker Thao in 2017. In collaboration with the Hmong and SouthEast Asian American Club at the University of Wisconsin.
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They used insights from this process to co-create community action plans and strategies to device a three-part initiative which hopes to enable contribution to a larger discourse surrounding translocality and belonging in today’s hostile sociopolitical climate.
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#FromtheTransDArchives Ángel López, for his thesis ''Transpedagogy in the Ephemeral''The Project explores how design thinking through socially engaged art might support development of community in Queens NY that has been targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Parsons Transdisciplinary Design retweeted
Do I know anyone who wants/needs work and could help a great org build a custom mindmap viz along the lines of kumu.io/ but with more depth?
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