ANTHROPO DESIGN

The lab develops studio-based projects, workshops and seminars in collaboration with industry partners and cultural institutions to foster the anthropological imagination of the designers. The material cultures and the histories of the « Others », those usually associated with peripheral locations, narratives and agencies, are explored to let the students experience a decentered position and find innovative local responses to the global. The activities of the lab aim at questioning and displacing the existing cultural boundaries through the investigation of new transnational and translational design practices.

FASHION DISPLACED

Apr 6, 2018|

The one-day symposium organized by the Parsons Paris Anthropo Design Research Lab and Fashioning Theory Research Lab, together with the Séminaire d'Anthropologie [...]

TRANSBOUNDARY FASHION SEMINAR

Mar 4, 2018|

Hosted by the Bunka Gakuen University and the National Art Center in Tokyo, the research seminar Art in Fashion, Fashion in Art has [...]

HAND IN HAND MADE

Feb 5, 2018|

The Institut National des Métiers d’Art (INMA) and Parsons Paris are launching a unique artistic collaboration that will bring together, for the [...]

THE DESIGN OF PICTORIAL ONTOLOGIES: FROM UNSTITCHED IMAGINARIES TO STITCHED IMAGES

Jan 18, 2018|

Leyla Neri, Program Director, has published an essay about the cultural processes of fashion design entitled The Design of Pictorial Ontologies: From [...]

CULTURAL SPACES & DESIGN

Jun 20, 2017|

International Colloquium organized by FHNW Academy of Art and Design, at the Museum of Cultures, Basel, Switzerland.

AT THE CROSSROADS OF MEMORIES

May 10, 2017|

A host of international experts engaged with second year students to discuss their final projects. Amongst those: Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished [...]

CHANGING MATERIALITIES

Mar 21, 2017|

Hosted by Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the research seminar Fashion as a Dialogue Between Cultures has gathered [...]

INTERTWINED LEGACIES

Feb 8, 2017|

January to May 2017, in collaboration with Musée du Quai Branly, Paris & Maison Lesage, Paris.