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PRODUCT DESIGN (BFA) School of Constructed Environments
In this major, you cultivate the technical and critical skills needed to design objects, systems, and services that enhance human abilities and relationships. You address contemporary realities including sustainability and technological change while exploring materials, manufacturing, aesthetics, and social engagement in both local and global contexts. Courses help you acquire broadly applicable studio, making, and critical thinking skills including research, graphic representation, sketching, modeling, prototyping, and presentation techniques. Electives—on topics such as digital and physical model making, professional practice and entrepreneurship, The new school PARSONS
material and process innovation, experimental ceramics, and woodworking and metalworking—deepen your practice. Projects and internships with companies like Poltrona Frau, IKEA, and Areaware connect you to the industry. Museums, archives, and exposure at international design fairs supplement Parsons’ resources, such as the Parsons Making Center and Healthy Materials Lab. Career paths include— industrial design, product development, manufacturing, furniture design, humanitarian/service design, health design, toy design, creative direction
Josi and Stella Lee, Nomad Planters
TOP RIGHT: Gabriella
Ravassa, coffee bean collecting bucket, Coco
BOTTOM RIGHT:
Daniel Martinez, Prism
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LEFT: Miriam