Parsons Communication Design & Technology

Communication Design + Technology (CD+T)

is a department and a collective design force of over 700 students and faculty engaged in work ranging from typographic exploration to geek graffiti, book design to game design, information visualization to animation. The programs in Communication Design (CD) and Design and Technology (DT) form a dual curricula that emphasizes experimentation, collaboration and social activism in the design of media experiences and new narratives for all kinds of people, in all kinds of places, around the world.

2 W 13th St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212.229.8908

cdt [ at ] parsons.edu

CDT Lecture Series: Zurkow/Mcdonald

For the third and last lecture of the semester, we are going to pack the lovely Theresa Lang Hall ( 2nd floor of 55 W. 13th) to engage with two great minds as they spar about the pop-culture side of the Communication Design and Technology conversation. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 3rd at 7PM and find out more about Marina Zurkow at http://www.o-matic.com/play/index.html and Jillian McDonald at http://jillianmcdonald.net/web.html.

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Graduate Open Studio: Dec. 4

Attention prospective MFA Design + Technology students! Please join us for our annual graduate open studio. This event is a chance for prospective MFA students to learn about the program, check out current MFA student and alumni work, meet our faculty, and hear about exciting CDT research initiatives/opportunities.

Dec. 4
6:00PM-9:00PM
CDT Open Lab
2 W 13th St., 10th Floor

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Invitation: Fujifilm Fashion/Tech with Sabine Seymour

On Thursday, November 20 from 7-11pm, tech and fashion enthusiasts will gather at NYC’s Arena for an elite fashion and technology event. The evening will kick off with a panel hosted by celebrity stylist, Phillip Bloch (http://www.phillipbloch.com). A unique live fashion event produced by the House of Diehl (http://www.houseofdiehl.com) will follow, in which students from NYC’s top fashion design schools will compete to create couture designs on live models using Fujifilm photo prints. Open bar and food will be provided.

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CDT Lecture Series: Eli Kuslansky

If you missed the first Ethan Zuckerman CDT lecture, you already missed 1/3 of your opportunity to soak your brain in the presence of prestigious thinkers who are leaders in the fields of Communication Design and Technology.

DON'T MISS ELI KUSLANSKY on Friday evening November 21st at 7:00 PM in the Kellen Auditorium--66 Fifth Avenue (or 2 W. 13th).

Among Mr. Kuslansky's Unified Field team's vast and memorable contributions is the Ask.com interactive globe wall in the Gehry IAC building across from Chelsea Piers. Through his work at Unified Field and in collaboration with industry associations and top universities, Kuslansky is creating a network of design labs to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies, new ways of visualizing and understanding our planet, and powerful ways for communities to utilize new channels of communication.

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CDT Lecture Series: Ethan Zuckerman

Please join us for a talk by Ethan Zuckerman, the first installment of the CDT Lecture Series, sponsored by Communication Design + Technology at Parsons the New School for Design.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
7:00PM to 9:00PM
65 W. 11th Street, Wollman Hall (5th floor)
Free and open to the public

Ethan Zuckerman is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His research in the field of information and communication technology for development includes work on telecommunications policy, free and open source software, and citizen media. With Rebecca MacKinnon, he is the cofounder of Global Voices (www.globalvoicesonine.org), an award-winning international community of webloggers and citizen journalists. Prior to his work with Berkman and Global Voices, Ethan founded Geekcorps (geekcorps.org), a volunteer organization which sent technology experts to work with ICT companies in the developing world. He is the former CTO of Tripod.com, a pioneering web hosting company based in Western Massachusetts, where he lives and works. He serves as advisor to several nonprofit projects that focus on technology and social change, and serves on the board of Open Society Institute's US Program.

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Online project concerning US & Iraqi concepts of freedom

Please contribute to a new online art project called Shape of Change, investigating Iraqi and American concepts of political change, independence and freedom. The project will begin with an online form. The resulting answers will be publicly available in an open content data base, to be interpreted by artists and activists in creative projects as they see fit. As content accumulates and evolves in response to political events, visualizations of the data featured on the site will function as evolving representations of change.

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Fall 2008 PlayTech Saturday is on!

Saturday, December 6
10th floor CDT lab (main hub), 2 W 13th St.
1-3pm

At Playtech Saturday, visiting youth engage/interact with some of the coolest new games and interactive pieces from CDT students.

Brought to you by Parsons Communication Design and Technology department (CDT) and Parsons Pre-College Academy (Parsons SPACE).

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PARSONS CDT AND GAMES FOR CHANGE LAUNCH PETLAB

First-of-its-Kind Initiative Will Prototype Digital Games Addressing Social Issues; To Partner with Microsoft and MTV in First Year

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Made Possible through a $450,000 Grant from the MacArthur Foundation

Parsons CDT, in collaboration with the non-profit organization Games for Change, has announced the launch of PETLab, the first public-interest game design and research laboratory for interactive media. Spearheaded by CDT Chair Colleen Macklin along with Games for Change founder Suzanne Seggerman, the PETLab initiative was made possible by a $450,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as part of the foundation's digital media and learning initiative established in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. In its first year, PETLab will work with Microsoft's Xbox development platform and MTV's Think.MTV.com youth- focused online activist community on the development of both learning tools and digital games that explore social issues.

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Jonah Model Info Wraps

DESIGN FOR MOBILE TELEPHONY

Communication Design & Technology principal faculty, David Carroll, announces both a case study and developer connection article on mobile media published on Adobe's site. The Case Study profiles the Mobile Media support elective course of Spring 2007 as a groundbreaking curriculum that embraces design for mobile devices while exploiting student fluency with Adobe tools. The article spotlights student projects by Jonah Model (BFA) and Albert Dang (MFA). The Developer Center article, Packing Lite: A mobile media interface design primer, introduces designers to designing for Flash Lite on Nokia Series 60 devices with a detailed step-by-step approach.