Below are links to research laboratories at Parsons and The New School.
- Center for New York City Affairs: an applied policy research institute dedicated to improving the
effectiveness of government and other organizations in their work with
urban families and communities
- Center for Transformative Media: a transdisciplinary research center dedicated to the invention, critique,
and understanding of transformative media practices, including gaming,
social networking, creative mobility, data mining, and participatory
learning
- DataMYNE: visualizing and connecting the Parsons community
- DESIS Lab: Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
- Drawing Lab: addresses cinemetric modes of gathering information and sampling data that engage the emergent nature of cities
- Gen Y Lab: conducts scholarly and practice-based research activities to generate
meaningful understandings of how Generation Y uses communication
technologies
- Global Exchange Lab: a transdisciplinary space for social scientists, architects, and
designers to create hybrid methodologies for research and design
interventions in global cities
- India China Institute (ICI): fosters collaborative research and institutional and personal connections among India, China, and the United States
- Mediatory Spaces: an internet-based humanities research laboratory hosted by the School of Art and Design History and Theory
- PIIM: Parsons Institute for Information Mapping
- PetLab (Prototyping, Evaluation, Teaching, and Learning): a public interest game design and research lab for interactive media
- REAL Lab: The Research Education Art and Design Lab at the School of Design Strategies
- SMALLab: Situated Multimedia Art Learning Lab
- Sheila C. Johnson Design Center: hosts exhibitions, events, and programs to generate active dialogue on the role of innovative art and design in responding to our contemporary world
- Solar Decathlon Studio: an interdisciplinary, student-led team from Parsons The New School for Design, Milano The New
School for Management and Urban Policy, and Stevens Institue of Technology
- Streaming Culture: a research project and current lecture series collecting talks from New School faculty and visitors
- Tishman Environment and Design Center: facilitates research, curriculum development, internships, and fieldwork opportunities in environmental studies
- Vera List Center for Art and Politics: organizes events and programs that respond to some of the pressing social
and political issues of our time as they are articulated by the academic
community and visual and performing artists
- Visualizing Finance Lab: explores the ways in which complex financial situations and dynamics can
be explained through visual, metaphorical, and narrative
representations
View additional information about New School Centers and Institutes.
