The price of creativity: Navigating financial barriers in design education

How can we navigate financial barriers while still exploring ideas that matter the most? Illustration by Lydia Chiu

The cost of creativity isn’t measured only in the hours spent designing—it’s tallied in receipts. For many students at Parsons School of Design, balancing financial constraints with creative…

Fashion on Fifth Paris: Très chic

Photos by Jane Lewis and graphic by Isabelle Hung

No matter how much we love New York, Paris is inarguably the fashion capital of the world. This exclusive biweekly version of Fashion on Fifth based at Parsons Paris highlights the international student fashion scene. Our returning writer Jane Lewis transports you beyond Fifth Avenue and explores what Parsons Paris students think will make you très chic.

New university President Joel Towers’ welcome speech met with concerns

Photo courtesy of The New School

Joel Towers, the university’s newly appointed president, delivered his first in-person address to the community last Thursday in the 66 W. 12th St. Johnson/Kaplan Hall auditorium. Throughout the 45-minute welcome speech, 10 audience members from a crowd of roughly 70 periodically rose from their seats, interrupting Towers to voice their inquiries.