Parsons MS Strategic Design & Management

Last month, MS SDM hosted an industry talk with Raina Kumra, and it turned into such a thoughtful, inspiring conversation.

We spoke about navigating non-linear careers, learning by doing, and what it really means to think strategically as designers in a rapidly evolving tech and AI landscape. One idea that stayed: don’t wait to be ready—build, experiment, and let your work lead the way.

Grateful for Raina’s honesty and generosity in sharing her journey. And a big thank you to Sareeta for making this conversation possible 🤍

Moderators: Swasti Solanki and Ananya Harshini

The final Industry Talk of the semester and academic year.

Join Teresa Barreira, Global CMO at Publicis Sapient, for a conversation on brand, growth, and leadership in an AI-accelerated world.

An official collaboration with Publicis Sapient, open to Parsons students, faculty, alumni, and Publicis Sapient employees.

📅 March 26
🕕 6–7 PM
📍 UL105, 63 Fifth Ave

Register through the link in bio.

Tether – Dementia Family Support
Project Description
Tether - Dementia Family Support, is a holistic care initiative designed to support families navigating the emotional, social, and logistical challenges of caring for a loved one with dementia. The project focuses on empowering informal caregivers - family members, friends, and community members - through accessible, empathetic, and well-researched tools that enable conscious caregiving. It aims to bridge the gap between medical diagnosis and day-to-day care, transforming caregiving from a stressful obligation into a more informed, compassionate family practice.

People
Saniya Aphale
Parsons: MS Strategic Design and Management

Mind Your Feelings
Project Description
Mind Your Feelings, designed by Rodolfo Kusulas and Juanli Carrión, visualizes the feelings of the Johnson Public Library users and the Hackensack community. Mind Your Feelings reveals how feelings affect our body and our mind, and vice versa. What happens in our mind directly affects how we feel and these feelings have an impact on our body, which sends signals to our brain. The goal of Mind Your Feelings is to become more aware of our feelings, destigmatize mental health issues, and recognize that good mental health contributes to good physical health.

People
Juanli Carrion
Faculty School of Design Studies

Rodolfo Kusulas
Parsons: Alumni MFA Transdisciplinary Design

Museums and Wellbeing
Project Description
By examining how visitors experience reflection and connection within museum spaces, our research explores the conditions that make such outcomes possible. Currently we are headed in a direction towards developing a framework that helps museums design and evaluate wellbeing-centred programs without relying solely on clinical data.

People
Pallavi Dixit
Parsons: MS Strategic Design and Management

Nirjari Upadhyay
Parsons: MS Strategic Design and Management

Paola Machuca Hernandez
Parsons: MS Strategic Design and Management

Blueprinting Care: Public Job Banks for Community Resilience
This research explores how public-service employment can function as civic care infrastructure. By linking unemployed or underemployed residents with understaffed community organizations via a public job bank, the project imagines a system that meets local needs while providing dignified work. It offers a vision for strengthening collective resilience through public employment.

People
Yash Pawar
Parsons:MS Strategic Design & Management

Althea Erickson
NSSR:Public & Urban Policy

Marie Therese Kane
NSSR: Environmental Policy & Sustainability Management

Themes
Care and economy, Care and Labor, Care and community, Care and design

The Courage in Care: Community Doulas and the Joyful Revolution of Birth
People
Vinay Kumar Mysore
Parsons: MS Strategic Design Management

Kent Harris

Themes
Care and politics, Care and community, Care and family, Care and design

Join us for the Care Lab Symposium this week! More details in Bio.

[Care Lab: The Lost Ledger]
This project investigates the invisible burden of women’s unpaid labor, the second shift, where working women shoulder disproportionate household responsibilities that remain economically unrecognized. It culminates in The Lost Ledger, a digital intervention that visualizes women’s unpaid work and transforms their collective experiences into data-driven testimony and advocacy. By combining design, economics, and storytelling, the project reframes care work as measurable, valuable, and central to societal well-being.

Student: Apoorba Nayak
MS SDM, Parsons

[Care Lab: Temporary Warmth]
Temporary Warmth uses fire as a social medium to foster connection, comfort, and emotional release in urban spaces. Through small, movable, low-barrier burning installations, the project encourages people to reclaim urban voids as sites of gathering and care. Fire becomes a shared ritual for togetherness and healing.
People
Ziyi Su
Parsons:MS Strategic Design Management

Are you working at the intersection of design and the social sciences?

Good Interventions ’26 invites students and practitioners in design, social sciences, public policy, economics, and technology to submit intangible design projects that address pressing social, political, economic, and environmental issues.

Organized by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, this annual exhibition will curate 15 projects for a public showcase in October 2026.

🗓 Deadline: May 21, 2026 | 5PM EST
🔗 Apply via link in bio ( https://goodinterventions26opencall.splashthat.com/ )
📩 [email protected]