Assistant / Associate Professor of Indigenous Design and Interior Practices

Posted: 27-Jan-24

Location: United States - Nationwide

Salary: Open

Internal Number: JR104976

Assistant / Associate Professor of Indigenous Design and Interior Practices

Tenure-Track Appointment 

School of Constructed Environments

Parsons School of Design 

Start date: July 1, 2024

Parsons School of Design, a college of The New School, acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of The Lenape People on which our faculty, staff and students work, learn, and create. We recognize that New York City has the largest urban Indigenous population in the United States. 

Parsons is committed to cultivating curricula grounded in social, racial, gender, disability, and climate justice. As fundamental to this process, we are launching multiple full-time faculty positions in Indigenous knowledges and practices. This initiative endeavors to begin readdressing the underrepresentation of Indigenous knowledges and practices at Parsons. We invite applications from candidates whose work centers ways of understanding and practicing art, design, and strategy that honors the original stewards, artists, makers, and designers on Turtle Island.

As part of this cluster search, we invite candidates for a tenure-track appointment as Assistant or Associate Professor of Indigenous Design and Interior Practices in the School of Constructed Environments. This appointment will begin July 1, 2024. 

We seek candidates who are engaged in interior design and material-based practices.  An ideal candidate will be an active practitioner, educator, and/or researcher in this field of work, informed and in active dialogue with indigenous frameworks of meaning, history, and culture.  We are especially interested in candidates who embody a depth of knowledge of interiors, materials, objects, and textiles that embrace longstanding and active cultural frameworks.  We welcome candidates whose interior and design practices embrace collaborative practices, and regenerative material cycles, connected to cultural knowledge and rituals of inhabiting and dwelling.  While recognizing the global, cross-cultural scope of indigenous building practice, this position has a Northeast regional lens within the context of Manahatta. Ideal candidates will demonstrate active dialogue with indigenous communities, locally and/or broadly.  Candidates will lead seminary courses and design studios in interior design, product design, and indigenous practice at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The candidate should be able to engage students with a diversity of skills, backgrounds, and interests. 

Parsonsâ™ School of Constructed Environments (SCE) engages the disciplines of architecture, interior design, lighting design, and industrial design -- ideal candidates will be able to collaborate within a focused discipline, and across all disciplines. As one of the only schools in the country that offer degrees in the full range of fields that construct our environment, SCE welcomes faculty who have a deep commitment to disciplinary rigor and cross-disciplinary collaborations. The school has over 150 faculty and nearly 800 students. Located in the heart of New York City, Parsonsâ™ School of Constructed Environments nurtures tomorrowâ™s practitioners and guides them in designing socially just, environmentally regenerative, and innovative cities, buildings, interiors, lighting, and products. We foster the skills, values, and vision vital to creating more integrated, equitable, and delightful worlds.

 

Responsibilities

The work of this faculty member is divided between (1) teaching, (2) scholarship or professional/creative practice, and (3) university service. The standard teaching load is five coursesâ“â“or the equivalentâ“â“per academic year. Within their field of expertise, the faculty member will be expected to teach undergraduate, including First Year, as well as graduate courses, to majors and non-majors. They will hold regular office hours, and participate in extracurricular teaching activities such as critiques, review panels, thesis supervision, independent study, and advising. University service includes program, Parsons, and New School assignments on committees and task forces, and as program directors or associate directors with a reduced teaching load in graduate and undergraduate programs, including the undergraduate First Year. All faculty are expected to be engaged with scholarship or professional/creative practice at a level commensurate with their faculty rank.

 

This faculty position is on a tenure-track contract. The terms and conditions of this faculty appointment, including guidelines for advancement, promotion, renewal, and tenure, are governed by The New School policies set forth in the

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