Join us on May 2nd at Governors Island for the annual Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party! This event highlights student projects that engage with materials not only as designers, but as caretakers, listeners, and participants within larger ecological and cultural systems. By working through recipes, rituals, and collective gatherings, students explore how design can support practices of decolonization, decarbonization, and healing—through everyday acts of making and sharing.
The dinner party is used as a conceptual and anthropological framework: a place to gather, share, reflect, and exchange knowledge. It becomes both a ritual and a site of learning, where materials, food, and stories intersect.
Event open to the public.
Participation is open to Parsons Students and Faculty. If you are interested in your work or your students’ work being part of the display, please contact the course professors by April 23rd.
Jess Thies | Email: thiesj@newschool.edu
Luisa Mantelli | Email: luisa@newschool.edu
In this interdisciplinary course, encouraging the disciplines of Interior Design, Industrial Design, Textiles, and Architecture to come together, the concepts of decolonization and decarbonisation are used as a lens to explore thematics around materiality and its regenerative possibilities. Through experimentation and exploration, students will frame projects around new practices of making as part of a circular process of living. The thematics will be questioned and developed throughout the semester with the help of practical research and guest speakers.
Our 2022 - 2025 Decolonized Decarbonized Dinner Parties can are open source, including material and making recipes, and can be found here:
Gorman, M., Chaparro, Y., Gopinath, P., (2025) A Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party, vol. 3. New York: Parsons / The New School.
Gorman, M., Chaparro, Y., Gopinath, P., (2024) A Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party, vol. 2. New York: Parsons / The New School.
Gorman, M., Chaparro, Y., Gopinath, P., (2022) A Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party. New York: Parsons / The New School.
New School students seeking accommodations should contact the Student Disability Services office at studentdisability@newschool.edu.
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Event guests seeking accommodations may contact the event organizer by clicking the "Contact the Organizer" link at the bottom of this page.
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