Featured Speaker
Climate for Change
Joel Towers,
Dean, Parsons The New School For Design
At its best, design is anticipatory of future challenges, constraints, and needs, and transformative of the public imagination. Perhaps the most important and determinative factor impacting future design contexts is the clear need to broadly advance ecological resilience in a landscape of increasing urbanization.
Joel Towers, Dean, Parsons The New School For Design
Joel Towers is currently Dean of Parson The New School for Design. From 2007-2009, Towers was Dean of the School of Design Strategies (SDS) at Parsons, and Associate Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design. He was the first Director of the Tishman Environment and Design Center (TED) at The New School, and the Associate Provost for Environmental Studies at the university. Towers first came to Parsons in 2002 as the Director of Sustainable Design and Urban Ecology.
Towers is a founding partner of SR+T Architects. He received a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Michigan School of Architecture, and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University. Towers was previously a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University, where he taught advanced architecture and urban design studios, and developed and taught a seminar exploring critical ecologies and environmentally reflexive architecture. http://www.srtarchitects.com/ .
Parsons The New School For Design
Parsons contains five schools—Art, Media, and Technology; Fashion; Constructed Environments; Art and Design History and Theory; and Design Strategies. This structure facilitates specialization in a given field, while enabling interdisciplinary and cross-school scholarship, affording designers the broad design perspective necessary in today’s professional world. Additionally, Parsons students benefit greatly from our integration within a larger university, The New School. Our students can complement their design education with first-rate courses in anthropology, political science, public policy, music and drama, and many other disciplines, acquiring the capacity to work collaboratively across a wide range of projects and contexts.
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