In a recent cover story in the New York Times Magazine, a reporter uncovered the world of addictive, mobile games. He placed one Parsons alumnus at the center of it all: Zach Gage. Gage is one of a group of young visionaries practicing at the intersection of art, design and technology who have emerged from [...]
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As the semester draws to a close the News hit the streets to ask students what they had planned for the summer. Ramon, Eugene Lang College, Writing I’m going to be in the city, I’m going to get a job, and I’m going to be writing and shooting short films. They’re mainly comedies, and I’ll [...]
The New School has just launched a curated page on Kickstarter that features current projects by students, faculty, alumni, and staff. The page is a platform for The New School community, across all eight divisions, to share their current projects. As of April 2012, Kickstarter had more than $175 million dollars pledged and more than [...]
On Thursday, April 26, a lively room of students and staff came together to celebrate excellence in student programming, leadership, and community building throughout The New School. Hosted by the Office of Student Development and Activities, the tenth annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet presented twenty awards in thirteen different categories, including Outstanding Student Leader of [...]
On May 31, a team of New School students will travel to the city of Manizales in Colombia’s coffee region as part of DEED (Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design), a research project designed to support artisan-owned small businesses in the developing world. Led by Cynthia Lawson, assistant professor of Integrated Design at Parsons, and [...]
When The New School announced its first-ever New Challenge, a social entrepreneurship contest offering winners up to $10,000 in funding, the response on campus was huge. The New Challenge, part of The New School’s Social Innovation Initiative, received more than 60 student submissions from across the university’s divisions, with projects ranging from films to apps [...]
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