Student Work
The works presented here were selected through a Parsons-wide open call inviting contributions across disciplines and media. Each project is integrated into the Latent Surface installation, a unified spatial narrative shaped by the Impact Exhibit team.
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 CliffordBFA 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, Product Design
The Dal Collection
The Dal Collection reframes cultural tradition as a living source of contemporary design. The project draws from the symbolic significance of the moon in Korean culture, where it has long represented harmony and cyclical ti…
Sunny ChoiBFA Fashion Design
AuxiStretch
AuxiStretch bridges the gap between effective evacuation techniques and streamlined rescue processes by reimagining a backpack as a transformable stretcher. Designed for rapid response in remote and challenging terrains, parti…
Saina UdayagiriBFA Product Design
Bhoomika PrasadWoven Vibration
Woven Vibration translates acoustic phenomena into tactile textile structures, asking what it means to make the invisible permanent and the ephemeral tangible. The work unfolds across four interconnected series. Reflection and Refraction ope…
MFA Textiles and Fiber Arts
Time as a Material Practice
Time as a Material Practice rethinks the interior as a lived and evolving environment rather than a static, finished image shaped by ideals of newness and permanence. The project examines how interiors…
Camilo TrujilloMFA Interior Design
Julia DaserFlooded House
Because climate change unfolds in a highly complex manner, it can be hard to relate to inherently abstract and intangible information. Flooded House aims to remove the numbing anonymity of scientific climate…
BFA Design & Technology
Bronx Educational Corridor
Located in Mount Hope, Bronx, one of New York City’s most heat-vulnerable and infrastructurally divided neighborhoods, this project reimagines craft as an urban practice of care. The Cross Bronx Expressway sepa…
Seoyeon LimBFA Architectural Design
The Human Seed
Seeds are storage units, vessels that preserve genetic material and carry the histories of this world. Human cultures have long participated in these cycles of dispersal and selection, shaping plant evoluti…
Rachel DanaMFA Textiles
Invasive Matters
Invasive Matters advances a climate-adaptive, circular manufacturing model by transforming invasive plant biomass into high-performance, non-toxic bio-materials for architecture and desig…
Ashli Watson MFA Industrial Design
TJ OzkanGrid Pendant
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Product Design
Stride
Stride is a discreet, dual-part wearable device designed to protect mobility and provide peace of mind for individuals living with Parkinson’s disease. The system consists of two small magnetic pods that attach easily to clothing, such as a s…
Tanya BasakBFA Product Design
Protest Food
Protest Food is a three-part, journalistic community-based project examining how communities around the world use food as a tool for protest, solidarity, and resilience.
Pepi NgBFA Design and Technology
Kai DengClothes is Clothes
In today’s fashion, clothing is increasingly experienced through visuals rather than through touch. Mass production, online shopping, fast fashion, and the visual-prioritized design proce…
BFA Fashion Design
Roni: A Toy for the Future
What if materials were not owned, but borrowed? Everything we make eventually returns to the environment. As the growing presence of microplastics demonstrates, materials do not disappear when we discard them-they simply change…
Adam CliffordBFA Product Design
Never in 9 lives
What does it mean to design for belonging? What kind of design would be seen as successful not only by those who designed the space but also those who use it?
Irene KwonBFA Design and Technology
Abdellatif
LIVE-STOCK and ABDELLATIF are independent jewelry projects designed and fabricated by Sarah Abdellatif. LIVE-STOCK, in collaboration with fashion designer and Parsons stude…
Sarah Abdellatif-ChavesProduct Design
Une Touche d’Or
Acknowledging how idiosyncratic experiences regarding vision have informed her design process, Myrna Lily Sisson’s exploration of sensory design began with a case study on integrating braille labeli…
Myrna Lily SissonBFA Fashion Design