Parsons School of Design
PROJECTS | 2020
TÔMTEX BIOMATERIAL
Uyen Tran
Tômtex is a sustainable leather alternative that uses waste from seafood and coffee grounds.
Finalist Team + Judges Recognition Prize Winner
Serial Space
Rosa Ng, Eriko Hantani, Charisse Serrano, Hadley Feingold
The team created a set of guiding principles to be integrated in society for more transparent, ethical, and just applications of biodesign.
Finalist Team
ARC
Celeste Ortega, Margo Sultenfuss, Erez Putterman, Abigail Meyer
ARC is a device worn on the neck that uses single pulse magnetic technology and temperature therapy to ease headache pain that stems from the occipital nerve.
Biohaus
Joe Chung
Biohaus proposes a speculative and critical design company that explores how we will learn in the year 2050 if synthetic biology is embedded in every fabric of our material and sensory lives.
INstructors
Jane Pirone an Associate Professor of Design Ecologies at Parsons School of Design. She served as Dean of the School of Design Strategies from 2015-2019 and as Director of the Communication Design program from 2006-2011. Jane’s creative and transdisciplinary practice engages with living systems, storytelling, participatory futures, and new technologies from critical, queer and post-human theoretical perspectives.
Jane has been a founding member of the Datamyne Project (MYNE), the Urban Research Toolkit (URT), the urbanBIKE initiative, and YouthBike. Prior to joining Parsons, Jane was the founder/creative director of Not For Tourists, drummergirl.com, and the award winning design firm, Happy Mazza Media, working with clients such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, IBM, Nickelodeon and the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
Harpreet Sareen is a scientist, artist and educator based in New York. His work is situated at the intersection of Material Science, Biology and Electronics and draws on the complementary abilities of the biological and artificial worlds. Harpreet terms this as 'Convergent Design' to create hybrid substrates and bionic materials that lend themselves for future ecological machinery, sensing systems and interaction design.
Harpreet is an Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design at Parsons School of Design, New York. He also directs the Synthetic Ecosystems Lab that focusses on biological futures, their implications in interaction design, and the cybernetics of organisms and materials.