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Exhibition
November 24, 2025 to January 9, 2026 at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, and Access to the Feminist and Queer Archives room L105
Symposium
Nov 24, 2025 5:00 PM Kellen Auditorium, Room 101. The symposium will begin at 5:00 pm will be in Kellen Auditorium. The reception to follow at 6:30 pm will be in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery.
Accessible entrance on 66 Fifth Ave
The School of Constructed Environments is proud to present an exhibition and symposium that serve as platforms for pedagogical experiments and an open conversation around two second wave feminist design archives: New York–based architect Susana Torre and London’s Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative. Torre, former Chair of Architecture and Environmental Design at Parsons, helped shape SCE’s progressive curriculum and advanced feminist architectural discourse through her essay Space as Matrix. Matrix Co-operative challenged the class structure in the building profession, empowering women and marginalized groups through collaborative design and hands-on training.
Curated by Professor Brian McGrath with faculty collaborators and exhibition designers Michele Gorman, Christine Facella, and Sugandha Gupta, the project merges archive and studio. Students across architecture, interiors, industrial design, and textiles will reimagine feminist design legacies through tactile, interactive installations. The exhibition functions as both archive and workshop, fostering open conversations around equity, justice, and the future of design.
Thank you to our Anonymous Feminist donor in addition to Curators Jos Boys from Matrix and Jon Astbury at the Barbican Centre, Gerladine Teddler at ETH, Independent Curator Marina Urbach, Jade Snelling IAWA, Matrix Open Feminist Architecture Archive, the New York Public Library Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library, Lucille Tenazas, Wendy Schier, Christina Moon and Parsons Cross School and SCE School Based Funds.
Parsons School of Constructed Environments (Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design), Fashion (Textiles), School of Design Strategies, Design and Technology students fabricated the exhibition through workshops and contributed to the exhibition through original pieces that reflect on the work of Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative and Susana Torre.
Research Assistants:
Khadeine Ali
Daksha Pathak
Eliot Lambert
Luisa Mantinelli
Vidushi Parashar
Elle Desjardins
Sara Varjabedian
Omar Seda
SCE Live Build: Making Space as Matrix graduate elective cohort
Char Abanes
Cherilyn Tan
Daksha Pathak
Durdona Rustamova
Elle Desjardins
Hanna Farkouh
Julianna Yarka
Lizzy Lane
Luisa Mantelli
MinhThao Vo
Nij Balar
Rebecca Bone
Vidushi Parashar
Yuv Palit
Symposium panel speakers:
Please join us, Brian McGrath and Michele Gorman, to host an open discussion with Susana Torre, Lori Brown, Andrea Merrett, Sharon Haar, Mark Robbins, and Leyden Lewis.
Thank you to MFA Interior Design’s Representation and Analysis and Design Studio 1: Radically Inclusive Interior students and faculty Dr. Eva Perez de Vega, Kiki Goti, Kimberly Tate, and Michele Gorman.
Audio Archival Submission
If you have a story to share about the exhibition, the work presented or the people represented and would like to have it included in The New School Archive’s Feminist and Queer Collection associated with Making Space as Matrix exhibition, contact Professor Brian McGrath at mcgrath@newschool.edu. Please give a 2 week lead time so we can arrange recording equipment in room L105.
Effective February 23, 2023, event guests and/or visitors to the New School are no longer required to provide proof of up-to-date vaccination or negative result from a PCR test and do not need to use the CLEAR app to present their vaccination status.
Wearing a mask is recommended but not required on campus.
For ramp accessibility to the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s Kellen Gallery (2 West 13th Street), enter through the 66 Fifth Avenue entrance. A Social Narrative guide is forthcoming after the exhibition has been installed on November 24th and will be posted on this event page.
For Low-light or Guided Tours, reach out to Parsons Professors Michele Gorman and Sugandha Gupta at gormanm@newschool.edu and guptas1@newschool.edu. Scheduled tours will be updated here on this event page.
Room 105 next to the Kellen Gallery will be a low-sensory space. Audio recordings of exhibition essays will be available in this room.
Parsons School of Design is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible and inclusive. Please let us know when registering if you need any additional accommodation.
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