Parsons x Impact Exhibit

A student driven design/build activation exploring how space, material, and sound shape human flourishing.

What is Impact Exhibit?

Impact Exhibit is an emerging exhibition platform from Parsons School of Design. Conceived, built, and installed by students working across disciplines, it brings physical and digital works from across the school to major international design events. The inaugural edition launches in 2026 at Salone Satellite in Milan and NYCxDesign in New York.

Our Current Exhibition

Seaport Satellite is a five-day interdisciplinary exhibition and public programming series presented by Parsons elective course, Impact Exhibit, during NYCxDesign Week (May 16–20). Returning from Salone Satellite at Milan Design Week, Impact Exhibit transforms a loft space at the South Street Seaport into a living pavilion showcasing student work across lighting, objects, furniture, graphics, digital media, textiles, fine arts, and spatial installations. Daily programming includes hands-on making workshops, film screenings, sound experiences, and live musical performances - with the space and its activations evolving throughout the week.

Workshops happening during the day would include hands-on woodworking, wool felting workshops, soundwalks, weaving and more.

Activations in the evening would include musical performances, from jazz ensembles to electronic listening sessions, to film screenings.

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May 16-20, 2026
Parsons x Impact: Seaport Satellite

8 Fulton, New York

  • MAY 16: Opening Party

    6:00-9:00PM


    Featuring bites by Edible Affairs


    Live Music: Duet–Manel Paret Espadaler + Catalina Balladares, plus Madhu Unnikrishnan

  • MAY 17: Weaving Workshop with Audrey Yip

    12:00-6:00PM

    A workshop that teaches people how to visualize their data differently through a tangible form in a small woven tapestry. Examples of data would include how long their commute time was, their date of birth, their current mood, I will provide yarn and small cardboard loom that people can use and try to make their own small data visualization.

    Audrey Yip, BFA Communication Design, Parsons School of Design

  • MAY 18: Weaving Workshop + Decolonized & Decarbonized Dinner Party Installation

    12:00–6:00 PM

    Weaving Workshop Part 2

    Installation: From Food to Form, by Ashna Puri [M.Arch, Parsons School of Design]
    Bio-clay tableware developed from food waste, natural pigments, and circular making processes.

  • MAY 19: Felting Workshop with Madeline Brubaker

    Open 12:00–6:00PM

    Felting Workshop with Madeline Brubaker
    3:00–7:00PM
    This project is a series of collaborative making sessions that combine nomadic group felting practices with stories of the cultural, environmental, and physical impacts of wool on our society.

Upcoming Exhibition

A physical language model trained on the creative waste output of a design school

Every fragment is a data point. Every stitch is a connection. Discarded material from studios across Parsons is collected, sorted, and assembled into a handmade surface that holds the school's hidden layer: thousands of decisions, failures, and discoveries compressed into a single collective object. The architecture is manual. The intelligence is distributed.

Designed and built by interdisciplinary undergraduate students from Parsons School of Design, New York, as part of Impact Exhibit — an elective course that takes student work out of the classroom and into the world. This inaugural edition debuts at SaloneSatellite, April 21 – 26, Milan's annual platform for emerging designers, during Salone del Mobile 2026.

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Selected Work

VIVO

VIVO is a modular furniture system designed for compact living spaces, where adaptability and efficiency are essential. Composed of two interlocking plywood modules, the system can be rearranged to form a variety of functional piec…

Leonardo Possati
MFA Industrial Design

Roni: A Toy for the Future

Roni is an open-ended play system made from mycelium, the root structure of fungi. Designed for children ages four to five, the project explores how toys can move beyond plastic manufacturing and instead participate in natural material…

Adam Clifford
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Senior, BFA Product Design
 
Benjamin Graham

Crown of Thorns

Crown of Thorns is a traditional folk wooden joinery technique practiced during the 1800s and early 1900s, until it eventually faded and became a lost art…

Furniture Design, BFA Product Design (Class of 2025)

Where to find us?

Salone Satellite 2026

Booth A-26, Fiera Milano, Rho, Milan, Italy

April 21–26, 2026

NYCxDesign 2026

New York, NY

May 14–20, 2026