Category: Projects

  • Do Tank

    Do Tank

    The Do Tank is an action-oriented design thinking course, tied to a challenge to translate learnings into local impact. In collaboration with different partners every year, the Do Tank cultivates a group of people with varied skillsets to work together on a real-world issue, from collaborative ideation to collaborative creation.

  • Tuning Into The Bluegrass

    Tuning Into The Bluegrass

    By harnessing the power of art, science and technology, Public Works in collaboration with the Department of Environmental Quality constructed a dynamic network that collects and translates groundwater data from across Kentucky into interactive soundscapes that manifest as public art installations and educational outreach programs.

  • Visualizing Pipeline Impacts

    Visualizing Pipeline Impacts

    Across the Northeastern US, the health and wellbeing of local communities and fragile ecosystems are under significant threat due to an unprecedented rollout of Shale Gas infrastructure. This comes in the forms of fracked gas drilling pads (Hydraulic Fracturing), transecting pipelines and compressor stations.

  • Institute for Transformative Mentoring

    Institute for Transformative Mentoring

    The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) is a program at The New School – Center for New York City Affairs. The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) is a dynamic training program focused on the development of Credible Messengers (formerly incarcerated men and women) working in the social services fields throughout New York City.

  • Mentoring Through Making

    Mentoring Through Making

    Given the current political landscape in the U.S. and the recent executive orders that have left immigrant and refugee communities in a particularly vulnerable position, we believe our project is taking place at a pivotal moment for our university and country. The Mentoring Through Making initiative is an innovative approach to education that combines the…

  • WriteOn NYC

    WriteOn NYC

    Born of a desire to enrich these bright young men’s educational experience, introduce them to literary role models, and help them develop and trust their own voices, WriteOn! NYC was piloted by Fiction Chair, Professor Helen Schulman and two selected MFA candidates in January 2016. The MFA students worked with Helen and George Jackson and…

  • Incarceration: A Podcast for Change

    Incarceration: A Podcast for Change

    Incarceration: A Podcast for Change preserves, reframes, and disseminates audio content from the States of Incarceration initiative developed by the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) in 2015-16. Students at The New School and other partner institutions created content in support of a traveling exhibit (ongoing) and related community outreach.

  • Tohuaxcan Tlahtole – Our Language

    Tohuaxcan Tlahtole – Our Language

    The Nahuatl language and culture is disappearing. Continually threatened by the legacy of colonialism and more recently neo-colonialism through the presence of multinational corporations in Mexico, Nahuatl speakers have dropped from over 5% of the population in 1895 to 1.5% in 2000.

  • The Bell: A Student Podcast

    The Bell: A Student Podcast

    The New York City public school system comprises 1,856 schools and 1,133,963 students – an enrollment greater than that of 38 states. The system is home to some of the finest public schools in the country, and some of the worst, with a high degree of racial and socioeconomic segregation contributing to unequal opportunities and…

  • Post from the Past

    Post from the Past

    There is a lack of engagement and meaningful learning in pre-college education when it comes to History. This problem is compounded by a lack of funding, support, and innovation in history and social studies classrooms across the nation.