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• Parsons School of Pattern enables students to develop the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in and contribute to our rapidly changing society. Students collaborate with peers throughout The New School, industry partners, and communities around the world and in New York Urban center, a global centre of art, design, and business.

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  Parsons was ranked the nation's top fine art and design school (QS, 2022)

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  Parsons' kinesthesia are skilled in employing design-led problem solving to address society's most pressing needs. See how they're responding to the moment with changemaking action and didactics for students online around the earth.

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• BFA Product Design alumna Yogita Agrawal '15 blends entrepreneurship, sustainability, and community-oriented design in the work of Ware Innovations, her Mumbai-based startup. While at Parsons, Agrawal devised Jhoule, a wearable, human-motion-powered lamp for use in off-grid Indian villages. And she and two other Product Design students  created Soapen — a crayon-like soap that encourages children to launder their easily — which won an award and support from UNICEF. Agrawal's interdisciplinary blueprint studio is currently developing a range of sustainable household products.

  As Director of Pattern Strategy and Operations of The Lab at the U.S. Function of Personnel Management, Sean Baker helps regime organizations apply blueprint to accost pressing public issues. He works with nonprofits, NGOs, and agencies to improve the policies, programs, services, and products that civil servants and citizens rely on daily. Baker's government position is raising sensation of the importance of well-reasoned service design and has made the MFA Transdisciplinary Design graduate a sought-later on advisor on design-led change.

  Reese ready new standards in women'southward prepare-to-wear mode afterward studying at Parsons. She worked under French designer Martine Sitbon and eventually became caput of the Women'southward Portfolio for Perry Ellis. She went on to launch a resort vesture line and flagship stores in NYC and Tokyo, and she recently started two sustainable manner lines. Reese has served on the board of the Quango of Fashion Designers of America and her celebrity clients include former Start Lady Michelle Obama.

  Over the terminal 20 years, BFA Advice Pattern graduate Robert Wong has invented innovative Web tools that have revolutionized gimmicky life. Equally primary creative officer of Google Artistic Lab, he and his team create campaigns that weave technology into everyday experience to positive effect.

  Higgs is a curator exhibiting for the digital age. His social media posts for historic jeweler David Webb have attracted younger audiences. And on his own pop Instagram account, Higgs dazzles followers with shut-ups of seldom-seen jewelry masterpieces from around the earth, paired with storytelling that brings design history to life.

  Our remarkable alumni become on to transform their industries and the world around them through their creativity and disquisitional insight.

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  Parsons graduates who take launched businesses (since 2017)

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  Forbes "30 Under 30" winners since the list's inception in 2011

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  Parsons' faculty comprises earth-renowned artists, scholars, and practitioners who pb their industries and academic fields. Yous piece of work closely with them, benefitting from their scholarship and professional person experience and networks. Our small grade sizes enable you to benefit from their real-world experience and industry access.

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    Knowing that the American contemporary art scene was built-in here in Greenwich Village inspires me daily. Two blocks from my classroom are provocative Keith Haring murals from the 1980s, which remind me that fine art has long been an agent of modify in the city. Miguel, Student, BFA Advice Design

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    I accept so many friends at present from all over the world; you form a tight-knit community when yous're working intensely on group design projects with people of different backgrounds and perspectives. These are friends for life. Regina, Pupil, BFA Integrated Design

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    Getting my work seen by people who are looking to support new designers in emerging fields is i of the master reasons I came to Parsons. New York City may be full of opportunity, but you have existent access to opportunities when you lot're at this school. Yasmin, Student, MFA Mode Pattern and Society

  Knowing that the American contemporary art scene was born here in Greenwich Village inspires me daily. Two blocks from my classroom are provocative Keith Haring murals from the 1980s, which remind me that art has long been an agent of change in the city. Miguel, Student, BFA Communication Design

  I have so many friends now from all over the globe; you form a tight-knit customs when you're working intensely on group design projects with people of dissimilar backgrounds and perspectives. These are friends for life. Regina, Pupil, BFA Integrated Design

  Getting my work seen past people who are looking to back up new designers in emerging fields is i of the principal reasons I came to Parsons. New York City may exist full of opportunity, but y'all have real admission to opportunities when you lot're at this school. Yasmin, Pupil, MFA Fashion Design and Society

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