Tiempo de crisis 1930 – 1943

SOPHOMORE YEAR

All of the following courses are open to students from other departments at Parsons. Please seek advisement in IDC if you are interested to take these courses.

PUIC 2041 TECHNOLOGY CORE: INVENTION

Working with texts studied and analyzed in Invention: Issues in Design Theory, the technology core will explore invention through a process of inquiry, research, documentation, and experimentation. Students work with video and time-based media as a platform to investigate the concepts and processes of making, creating, and imagining as an artist and designer in society today. The course will review the various steps involved in recording, digitizing, and editing image & sound.

3 CR

PUIC 2401 BODY/GARMENT STUDIO 2

This course builds on the work developed in Body/Garment Studio 1, specifically through the lens of performance. This project-based studio leads students through considerations of body, movement, space, and materials in the design of garments for specific performance contexts, which may include theater, ballet, sports, and performance-based art installations.

Open to: majors, non-majors, and Lang students with IDC advising 3 CR

PUIC 2410 BODY/GARMENT SEMINAR

This seminar grounds the work of students in the Body/Garment studio sequence in theoretical and historical perspectives on the body and silhouette and how it is constructed, envisioned, modified and represented through design and society. Through readings, discussion, writing, and design exercises, students deepen a critical context and position for the studio-based projects they are developing in Body/Garment Studio 2.

Open to: majors, non-majors, and Lang students with IDC advising 3CR

SOPHOMORE & JUNIOR YEAR

All of the following courses are open to students from other design departments. Please seek advisement in IDC if you are interested to take these courses.

PUIC 3031 CORE COLLOQUIUM: URBAN INTERVENTIONS

In this design studio, students use signage and wayfinding systems as sites of investigation that address community, economics and advertising, messaging, and design life cycles. Students consider

communication and the role of wayfinding systems in a community; the impact and meaning of messages in the public sphere; and issues of scale and audience. Through both research and design responses, student develop a critical understanding of the visual landscape and a designer’s role to help shape this terrain.

Students will work in real sites and will develop their design proposals to a final stage, ready for implementation.

4 CR.

Open to: majors, non-majors, and Lang students with IDC advising UURB 3300 DESIGNING THE SUSTAINABLE FOODSHED

Teams of students from Parsons & Lang will explore issues surrounding the production, distribution, packaging and marketing of the foods that students typically buy, prepare, and eat. Looking through the lens of New School students, this new cross-divisional studio course examines the social, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable urban food and agricultural systems (the "urban foodshed").

This research will inform design solutions to enable a typical freshman to eat more sustainably, and include proposing changes in the university meal plan, student awareness, or food access. This course ultimately applies design as an agent of change at three scales: products, systems, and distribution strategies.

4 CR.

Open to: majors, non-majors, and Lang students with IDC advising PLDS 2072 INVENTION [ART & DESIGN STUDIES COURSE]

Although most people think invention occurs by chance, in fact creative processes have been studied and methodized from early antiquity. Students of invention, however, have disagreed about its nature, for it makes all the difference whether invention is thought of as a process of assimilation dependent on

changeless models, a mode of imitation of material processes, a method of resolving problems arising from

experience, or as a free recreation of already invented worlds. In this class we examine four central theories of invention in design and art, with special attention to their bearing on studio practice.

3 CR

JUNIOR YEAR

All of the following courses are open to students from other design departments. Please seek advisement in IDC if you are interested to take these courses.

PUIC 3000 CORE COLLOQUIUM: CULTURE & REPRESENTATION

Using insights from the Art and Design Studies Junior Seminar course and associated readings, students construct design-based inquiries into issues of culture in New York City. The Junior Seminar will serve as the lens for studio-based studies in culture - how it is defined, articulated and transformed through the design process and the design product. The intention is to disclose the issues embedded in social and cultural contexts of materials, artifacts and their representation that designers can productively act on and translate in their work. This course is taught in tandem with the Global Perspectives in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century, a course in Art and Design Studies where students will be critically looking at culture from anthropological, historical, global, technological perspectives. Texts, lectures and discussion from the Global Perspectives in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century will be further developed through issue-based studio exercises and projects.

3 CR

Open to: majors, non-majors, and Lang students with IDC advising

Note: Global Perspectives in Design and Visuality in the 21st Century is required to be taken concurrently with this course.

PLDS 3350 THEORIES OF PRACTICE [ART & DESIGN STUDIES COURSE]

Theories of Practice explores areas of critical thought in relationship to design practice. The course will present a range of texts that address issues central to an informed awareness of current theoretical design debates and will explore topics such as meaning in design, the role of design in shaping in contemporary thought, and the relationship of theory to design practice. Theoretical readings will be coupled with bi-weekly presentations of precedent studies of designers, projects, businesses, and alternative practices that state a position, explore points of view and meaning in their work. By the end of the semester, students will frame their Design Enterprise Projects or senior thesis proposals from the ideas, methods, and philosophies behind “how designers practice.”

3 CR

PUIC 3900 PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP Please see department for course description 0 to 2 CR

PUIC 3901 INDEPENDENT STUDY

Please see department for course description.

0 to 6 CR SENIOR YEAR

PUIC 4031 DESIGN ENTERPRISE PROJECT

The Design Enterprise Project is a fourth year effort that proposes a comprehensive design initiative that demonstrates a student’s ability to innovate and break new ground in carefully selected design problems. It is entrepreneurial and interdisciplinary. Enterprise topics develop from students’ individual plans of study and professional experiences and insights gained during the Enterprise Internship. Design Enterprise Projects should demonstrate advanced problem solving, collaboration, and clear, articulate visual and written arguments, refined by core studies in liberal arts, studio/skills, and the IDC core colloquia. An interdisciplinary advisory panel and weekly seminar meetings support the Design Enterprise Project that culminates in a written thesis and verbal presentation and defense.

4 CR

Open to: Majors only

PUIC 4041 DEP: BOOK & EXHIBITION DESIGN

Working in tandem with Design Enterprise Project, this course focuses on the articulation and representation of the project, and the development and creation of presentation materials in the forms of an exhibition and publication.

3 CR

Open to: Majors only