Parsons Strategic Research produces new knowledge through practice and collaboration for transformative, social and sustainable impact.
Research Through Practice In and Of the World
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Parsons Entrepreneurial Lab
Empowering design-driven entrepreneurs through mentorship, resources, and strategic support to launch impactful ventures.
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Collective Fabulation Lab
Exploring ways of becoming-other through the co-creation of hybrid fiction/nonfiction stories that contribute to conditions for invoking a people to come.
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Care Lab
Innovating care practices by integrating design methodologies to enhance well-being across diverse populations.
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MANY Design Studio
Designing for equity and impact through collaborative processes that address pressing social and environmental challenges.
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Lab for AI, Ethics & Creative Labor
Investigating the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and creative work to inform responsible technology development.
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DESIS Lab
Advancing social innovation by integrating design research with community engagement to address complex societal challenges.
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Housing Justice Lab
Addressing housing inequalities through interdisciplinary research and design interventions that promote social justice.
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Adam Brent Studio
Merging sculpture and design to investigate materiality, form, and spatial relationships in contemporary contexts.
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DEED Lab
Designing equitable economic development solutions through participatory research and community partnerships.
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Juanli Carrión Studio
Juanli Carrión’s work takes the form of living interventions rooted in vernacular ecologies. Art, ecology, and Community in Motion.
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Marisa Morán Jahn Studio
An artist and educator, her civic-scale projects are known for their humor, accessibility, and political resonance, bringing public attention to urgent issues through playful forms of engagement.
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Outer Seed Shadow Project
Outer Seed Shadow (OSS) Project is a community-driven initiative that uses gardens as sites of cultural expression, knowledge-sharing, and ecological resilience.
At the School of Design Strategies, research emerges through doing, making, and reflecting in real world contexts.
This platform highlights faculty led labs, projects and initiatives that challenge traditional academic frameworks by recognizing design, creativity, and community engagement as vital modes of operating within real world systems. These efforts reflect our institutional commitment to redefining how research is produced, supported, and shared.