Parsons x Impact Exhibit
A student driven design/build activation exploring how space, material, and sound shape human flourishing.
What is Impact Exhibit?
Impact Exhibit is an emerging exhibition platform from Parsons School of Design. Conceived, built, and installed by students working across disciplines, it brings physical and digital works from across the school to major international design events. The inaugural edition launches in 2026 at Salone Satellite in Milan and NYCxDesign in New York.
Our Current Exhibition
A physical language model trained on the creative waste output of a design school
Every fragment is a data point. Every stitch is a connection. Discarded material from studios across Parsons is collected, sorted, and assembled into a handmade surface that holds the school's hidden layer: thousands of decisions, failures, and discoveries compressed into a single collective object. The architecture is manual. The intelligence is distributed.
Designed and built by interdisciplinary undergraduate students from Parsons School of Design, New York, as part of Impact Exhibit — an elective course that takes student work out of the classroom and into the world. This inaugural edition debuts at SaloneSatellite, April 21 – 26, Milan's annual platform for emerging designers, during Salone del Mobile 2026.
Selected Work
VIVO
VIVO is a modular furniture system designed for compact living spaces, where adaptability and efficiency are essential. Composed of two interlocking plywood modules, the system can be rearranged to form a variety of functional piec…
Leonardo PossatiMFA Industrial Design
Roni: A Toy for the Future
Roni is an open-ended play system made from mycelium, the root structure of fungi. Designed for children ages four to five, the project explores how toys can move beyond plastic manufacturing and instead participate in natural material…
Adam CliffordSenior, BFA Product Design
Benjamin GrahamCrown of Thorns
Crown of Thorns is a traditional folk wooden joinery technique practiced during the 1800s and early 1900s, until it eventually faded and became a lost art…
Furniture Design, BFA Product Design (Class of 2025)Where to find us?
Salone Satellite 2026
Booth A-26, Fiera Milano, Rho, Milan, Italy
April 21–26, 2026
NYCxDesign 2026
New York, NY
May 14–20, 2026