Thursday, September 5, 2013

Apply to participate in a partnership with Parsons The New School for Design and The Fortune Society. DUE: Rolling interviews, September 2013.


Apply to participate in a partnership with
Parsons The New School for Design and
The Fortune Society.
WHEELS, Parsons The New School for Design, and The Fortune Society have secured a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant to explore the role of service design in the making of communities.

Explore the question:
What does it mean when we make a thing for ourselves?
At WHEELS, we find ourselves answering how we work and what makes us, us.  Participation in this work allows us time, space and a modest amount of funding (for students, not teachers) as we consider this question and document our work.

Collaborate with students at
Parsons The New School for Design and
The Fortune Society.
Undergraduate students in service design at Parsons and GED students at Fortune will be working on their own set of parallel questions, in their own school communities. 

Plan and conduct fieldwork at
Parsons The New School for Design and
The Fortune Society.
WHEELS participants will visit both sites to share our work.

Present your work on local, regional and national levels. 
If interested, students will be able to write proposals to present our work at a variety of conferences, including but not limited to WHEELS expos, EL conferences, New School Collaboratory sessions, other YTBD academic conferences.

Interested?
Ideal applicants have a deep-down interest in thinking through the focusing question, in entering into a two year partnership with Parsons and Fortune (especially since WHEELS students will be the only students involved from start to finish). 
Contact Ms. MacNeil.
Rooms 449 and 429.
In the morning, before the doors open on Amsterdam Avenue or at the fourth floor “T” at dismissal. 

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