Integrated Design Program at Parsons/The New School

Rouya Aldabbagh’s Senior thesis project “Becoming & Unbecoming” is both a personal archive and a love letter to her time in New York City. The work documents the fragments that map a version of herself that could only exist within that time and place.

Rouya Aldabbagh is a mixed media artist whose practice combines design, storytelling and community-based research. Her work focuses on user experience, often centering overlooked narratives. Through digital media and tactile objects, she translates primary research into intentional visual and sensory forms.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Michael Armellino’s Senior thesis project “The Final Cut” creates a cohesive space that represents my childhood comforts by blending memories of furniture, lighting, music, and spaces that evokes the safety and softness he felt growing up as the son of a woodworker. Each object and piece of furniture is handcrafted out of natural materials including wood and leather to pull me back into these memories through tangible, tactile surfaces and textures.

Michael Armellino ( ) is a furniture designer based in New York City working with reclaimed wood and other materials, creating spatial experiences that incorporate elements of scent, sound and touch. His designs work to create a feeling of comfort within spaces.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Marlene Liu’s Senior thesis project “Colorful Blue” investigates how anthropogenic waste and underwater remains transform marine ecosystems. She uses 3D modeling to visualize the environmental impact of human activity and the ways nature adapts to these disturbances.

Marlene Liu is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who blends diverse materials and digital techniques to create mixed media works. Her inspirations come from daily encounters in reality along with imagination and dreams. She is currently focused on digital creations and 3D modeling.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Mariana Paez Espinosa’s Senior thesis project “casa maria” is a fashion collection designed for strong, distinctive women who value sophistication, intention, and timeless femininity—garments that honor the past while existing confidently in the present.

Mariana Paez Espinosa ( ) is a designer who grounds her work in heritage—guided by the belief to never forget where she comes from. Influenced by generations of strong, hardworking women, she draws from the sophistication of past and future to create evocative imagery that stirs emotion and invites reflection beyond the moment.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Rida Ahmed’s Senior thesis project “Tagua Jewelry in Bloom” is a collection of hand-carved jewelry and accessories from tagua nut, a natural material often called “vegetable ivory.” 

Rida ( ) is an artist whose work is deeply rooted in a love for nature and floral imagery. Their practice explores craftsmanship and experimentation while prioritizing environmental consciousness. They aim to create meaningful work that connects with people and contributes something meaningful and positive to the world.
Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Lucie Lenoir’s Senior thesis project “Need to Get the Word Out” captures the current moment by collecting street posters and exploring them through screen printing and bookmaking, examining the messages they convey as a whole and the communication design elements they use to do so. It celebrates a physical platform which connects us and builds our world.

Lucie Lenoir (.lenoir ) is an illustrator and graphic designer who appreciates overlooked details and the mundane. She is fascinated by how different events shape a place over time: how places hold memory. She researches unique topics, and uses printmaking and print media to explore the visual conventions that make up their world.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Hanbing Xie’s Senior thesis project “Śarīra” (relics) are physical remains believed to carry spiritual significance after transformation. This project takes the form of an installation, using metal as a medium to explore how material change can produce such traces.

Hanbing Xie ( ) is an artist and designer based in New York. Working primarily with metal, his practice investigates how force, touch, and time alter industrial materials. Through welding, fabrication, and experimental surface processes, he explores the tension between control and instability.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Anna Emberson’s Senior thesis project “909 Glenhaven Drive” honors the spirit of her grandparent’s house, which was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire last January. Although we are unable to return to the places we once inhabited, they remain a part of us. The duality of loss, which divides life into “before” and “after,” is explored through a synthesis of materials that survived yet were altered by the fire with recreated heirlooms that have been abstracted due to memory reconsolidation.

Anna Emberson (@310.anna ) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer born in Los Angeles, whose work centers on the defining people, places, and experiences of her life, expressed through vibrant and decorative depictions.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Anna Emberson’s Senior thesis project “909 Glenhaven Drive” honors the spirit of her grandparent’s house, which was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades fire last January. Although we are unable to return to the places we once inhabited, they remain a part of us. The duality of loss, which divides life into “before” and “after,” is explored through a synthesis of materials that survived yet were altered by the fire with recreated heirlooms that have been abstracted due to memory reconsolidation.

Anna Emberson (@310.anna) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer born in Los Angeles, whose work centers on the defining people, places, and experiences of her life, expressed through vibrant and decorative depictions.

Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨

Rida Ahmed’s Senior thesis project “Tagua Jewelry in Bloom” is a collection of hand-carved jewelry and accessories from tagua nut, a natural material often called “vegetable ivory.”

Rida () is an artist whose work is deeply rooted in a love for nature and floral imagery. Their practice explores craftsmanship and experimentation while prioritizing environmental consciousness. They aim to create meaningful work that connects with people and contributes something meaningful and positive to the world.
Congratulations to the Integrated Design Program Senior Class of 2026 on an incredible Senior Thesis Show—we're proud to celebrate your creativity, innovation, and all you've accomplished! 🎉✨