MFA interior Design and lighting Design Double Major The School of Constructed Environments offers students wishing to combine studies in interior design and lighting design a unique double major. Career paths include—Interior Design; Industrial Design; Sustainable Design; Consulting; Teaching For more about faculty, courses, and requirements, visit newschool.edu/ parsons-mfainterior.
In the MFA Lighting Design and Interior Design double major, a three-year, 90-credit-hour curriculum, students develop an in-depth technical and aesthetic understanding of the relationship between light and interior design. Interested students should apply directly to the double major program; they will automatically be considered for admission to the individual MFA Interior Design and
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MFA Lighting Design programs as well.
TOP: MFA Interior Design students designed and built this booth for a fundraiser held by DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) called Dining by Design. Provided with $2,500 to create this booth, the students instead used found objects and donated the unused funds to DIFFA. Photograph: Marion Curtis/Starpix
OPPOSITE: Joel Rice, Portal. A stripped interior
corridor from the Neponsit Health Care Center melds with the landscape 120 years from now, when it is re-inhabited. Model photography, graphite, digital and physical collage
interior design (mfa)
BOTTOM: Somasree Chandra, Decolonising Space. Cell blocks in an abandoned police station are repurposed into rooms that play video projections by community residents to tell their own stories. 3D model on Rhino, rendering on Photoshop and Illustrator, physical collaging by hand and scanning