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PARSONS TO EXHIBIT AT ICFFAmong Featured Projects is 2010 I.D. Design Review Student Award Winner
Parsons at ICFF NEW YORK, May 10, 2010—Parsons The New School for Design presents FLOW, a special exhibition of student work, at this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF). The exhibition, on view May 15-18 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, features a juried body of work from students in the product design program that explores the theme of flow, including the 2010 I.D. Annual Design Review award-winning project OTO Sound & Life. A reception celebrating Parsons participation in the ICFF will be held on Friday, May 14 from 7 p.m.-midnight at the David M. Schwartz Fashion Education Center at Parsons, 560 Seventh Avenue, as part of the BFA Product Design Thesis Exhibition. “We are thrilled to be participating in the ICFF, the premier showcase for cutting-edge design,” said Robert Kirkbride, Director of the BFA Product Design program at Parsons. “Using the concept of ‘flow’ as a starting point, our students created objects that are beautiful, functional, and conceptually challenging.” A central feature of the installation is three mobile Watertables, convertible dining and worktables designed and constructed by Parsons students for a special water-themed dinner and 24-hour design slam last fall. In keeping with their sustainable nature, the watertables serve a dual purpose at the exhibition—acting as both individual pieces and support structures for the display of the other Parsons work, which ranges from furniture to medical devices and highlights the numerous interpretations of flow. Featured projects include OTO Sound & Life by Chika Nakayama, a ceramic pitcher crafted using ancient techniques of ceramic instrument making. The piece was selected for a Design Distinction Award in this year’s I.D. Design Review. Other highlights include Chelsea Briganti’s Mademoicell, a simple, medical-grade silicone device and storage kit that empowers women to collect and store their own stem cells from menstrual blood. Zackary Lauth asks visitors to reconsider cultural perceptions of good and bad with Reconstructed, an iconic Parsons table deconstructed by termites. Designed Constraint, a porcelain tea set with a multidirectional pot designed by David Lee, explores habits and flows of consumption. And Samta Shah’s felted children’s furniture, namda, aims to preserve traditional Indian handcrafts. Parsons has participated in numerous presentations of the ICFF throughout the years, winning the 2006 Editor’s Award, the top honor in the design school competition, for its exhibition of the project Little Houses on the Black River, a flat-pack housing project in Sweden. The ICFF exhibition will run concurrently with the BFA Product Design Thesis Exhibition, a presentation of seminal work from graduating product design students. The thesis show is on view May 7-16 at the David M. Schwartz Fashion Education Center at Parsons, 560 Seventh Avenue. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/thesis. Parsons The New School for Design is one of the most prestigious and comprehensive institutions of art and design in the world. Located in New York City, Parsons prepares students to creatively and critically address the complex conditions of contemporary global society. Combining rigorous craft with cutting-edge theory and research methods, Parsons encourages collaborative and individual approaches that cut across a wide array of disciplines. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons. ### |
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