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The 21st century has presented unquestionable challenges for our global community. Interior Design needs to respond to a climate emergency that is the resounding plight of our generation. The climate crisis reveals and amplifies many other stressors, including deeply embedded systems of racial, social, and economic inequality. Interior Design educators and practitioners alone cannot solve these systemic problems, but we can contribute materially and conceptually to a more just and equitable world. We aim to empower our students to understand the impact, consequences, and opportunities that our work offers and to serve and advocate for marginalized groups in every circumstance. We strive to teach a design process that upends top-down, hegemonic problem solving to foreground community-engaged participatory design processes. We aspire for Parsons BFA Interior Design graduates to redefine and expand the purview of interior design, and to champion regenerative and resilient design thought and methodologies that foster ecological stewardship.
“COVID-19 hit the world hard by 2020 and continues to upend the global community. As people around the world continue to carry out their lives predominantly indoors, the sustained breaking of systems in healthcare, transport, housing and many others continues to highlight what is fragile in communities, economies and infrastructures. While immediate design solutions are rapidly taking place for good reason, designers of the built environments urgently need to challenge and design ways to rebuild our infrastructures for equity, restoration, and resiliency. COVID-19 is symptomatic of a larger issue: people around the world have experienced similar, albeit at different scales, pandemics like SARS and MERS before, but designing for resiliency and regeneration still largely falls under the radar. This capstone asks that you focus on design as maintenance: the sustainable maintenance of public, green or any infrastructural spaces through rehabilitative solutions to support these spaces.”
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