My latest contribution to our newer, truer New School histories vertical is out! Some insights from big anniversaries past (including the Parsons centennial in 1996) to leaven the current centennial frothiness. That makes ten: Exiled Knowledge Salvaged for World Use: Or the histories hidden in the New School’s digital archives, The Majority Finds Its School: The lessons of Gerda Lerner, What Does It Mean to Educate Adults? The Case of the New School, Are the Arts a Critical Facet of Social Research? At The New School, artists have shaped the institution’s agenda, The New School’s Paradoxical Archive: How a school focused on the future has learned to love its past, Uncovering the Musical Divide: The tale of two cultures at the Mannes School of Music and The New School, A History of Innovation: The first history of the New School for Social Research recalls its originality, What We Know About Parson School of Design’s Namesake: The story behind Frank Alvah Parsons, the man who made art and design accessible to New Yorkers, All of a Sudden: Reflections from the Classroom of Sekou Sundiata, How to Mark a Centennial: Telling the Story of the New School at 100.
There are many more to come! Coming soon: the Mobilization, urban studies, the University in Exile, Gestalt.
There are many more to come! Coming soon: the Mobilization, urban studies, the University in Exile, Gestalt.