FACULTY NEWS
AT THE HELM
Parsons appointed deans to lead three of its recently launched schools. Miodrag Mitrasinovic, former chair of Urban and Transdisciplinary Design, was named dean of the School of Design Strategies. William Morrish, former Elwood R. Quesada Chair in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at the University of Virginia, is dean of the School of Constructed Environments. And Sven Travis, founder of Parsons’ Design and Technology programs, was appointed dean of the School of Art, Media and Technology. They join Simon Collins, dean of the School of Fashion; Hazel Clark, dean of the School of Art and Design History and Theory; and Joel Towers, dean of Parsons.
FASH CO.
Industry veteran and dean of Fashion Simon Collins was one of the “dazzling new thinkers, rising stars, and boldface names” chosen by Fast Company magazine for their 100 Most Creative People in Business list.
NEAR &
NOW
Faculty member Zhijian Qian curated the inaugural group show at the new Museum of Chinese in America, designed by Maya Lin. Here & Now: Chinese Artists in New York brings together contemporary artists of Chinese descent to explore cultural, political, ethnic, and artistic themes.
MASTER MINDS
Students and young professionals worked with renowned designers at the Arts of Fashion MasterClass. BFA Fashion director Steven Faerm ’94 helped lead this joint effort of the Arts of Fashion Foundation, Parsons, and the La Cambre School of Fashion, in Brussels.
NEW
Faculty Publications
VOICES
Parsons welcomes 27 new full-time faculty members to campus this year. For a complete list of new full-time instructors, visit www.newschool.edu/ newfaculty. A few new members of the faculty are listed below. Assistant professor of design studies/visual cultures studies Jeffrey Lieber integrates architectural and design history, visual culture, and film studies into his scholarship. Timo Rissanen, assistant professor of fashion design & sustainability, is an academic and practitioner whose work is informed by inventive patternmaking and sustainability. Radhika Subramaniam, director and chief curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and assistant professor in the School of Art and Design History and Theory, is a curator whose research interests include South Asian urban modernity, cultures of catastrophe, public pedagogy, and social justice. Victoria Vesna, visiting professor of media arts and director of research at the School of Art, Media and Technology, is an artist and scholar who comes to Parsons from UCLA’s School of the Arts.
Laura Auricchio
Jilly Traganou & Miodrag Mitrasinovic
Hazel Clark & David Brody
CHANGE
With the fall issue, “Change Design,” The Journal of Design Strategies (previously The Journal of Design and Management) transitioned to peer reviews from international contributors. Coinciding with the development of a new graduate program in transdisciplinary design, the 2010 issue (edited by Jamer Hunt) focuses on designing for complexity, open source and emergent design, visualizing and mapping complexity, and connective practices and radical collaboration. A call for submissions is forthcoming.
A study of the 18th-century painter Adélaide LabïlleGuiard fills a gap in art scholarship on the era of the French Revolution, which has generally neglected the contributions of women. By Laura Auricchio, School of Art and Design History and Theory. (Getty, 2009) Travel, Space, Architecture develops a new theoretical perspective in architectural and urban scholarship that uses the notion of travel to frame the processes of spatial production. Edited by Jilly Traganou, School of Art and Design History and Theory, and Miodrag Mitrasinovic, School of Design Strategies. (Ashgate, 2009) Design Studies: A Reader presents a range of perspectives on design in themed sections that address history, methods, theory, visuality, identity, and consumption. Edited by Hazel Clark and David Brody, School of Art and Design History and Theory. (Berg, 2009)
Red Riding Hood Redux is a wordless visual narrative and retelling of the traditional fairy tale in five books, each one representing the perspective of a different character. By Nora Krug, Illustration, School of Art, Media and Technology. (Bries, 2009) Nora Krug
Steven Guarnaccia
The Three Little Pigs casts Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright as the protagonists of a contemporary version of the tale that includes renowned architects living in houses of scraps, glass, stone, and mortar. By Steven Guarnaccia, Illustration, School of Art, Media and Technology. (Corraini, 2009)
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