Overview

The Interior Design program of The New School prepares you for graduate studies, particularly in the allied fields of Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments: architecture, industrial design, and lighting design.

Beyond the Classroom

You work with faculty, peers, and outside professionals designing interior environments that reflect an understanding of sustainability, cultural differences, and human needs for comfort and well-being. Courses guide you through the study of materiality and two- and three-dimensional form and space. The design studio sequence introduces topics of increasing complexity across various typologies, and you learn to conceptualize and develop interior designs using hand and digital drawings, physical models, collage, and renderings. Art and design history and theory courses build your research, communication, and conceptual skills. Access to New York City's globally influential firms and showrooms broadens your practice, and Parsons' long-standing prominence and industry connections give you access to leading interior design firms, museums, galleries, and auction houses.

Future Opportunities

Graduates leave prepared to begin careers or pursue further education in interior design, lighting design, sustainable design, set design, exhibition and event design, historic preservation, and consulting. This program is part of Parsons’ School of Constructed Environments (SCE). As a BFA Interior Design student, you benefit from this integrated academic community through access to students and faculty of related making disciplines at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels.