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The New School is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and particularly seeks applications from members of underrepresented groups, as well as candidates who share this commitment.

The School of Fashion (https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/fashion-school/) at Parsons, The New School, is seeking Part-Time Faculty to teach in our sophomore year Interaction courses. The course is divided into a Studio and Lab component:

Core Studio Interaction:

This course exposes students to thorough and elaborate interactive concepts and techniques for applications. It is an extensive investigation in the interface, the mechanism, the controls and the aims of interactive works. Students will learn how to design and develop complex interactive projects and understand how to undertake a comprehensive research and direct their thinking process from brainstorming to final outcome. They will be given the tools to conceive, plan and develop an interactive system and they will become aware of the importance of their role in the development of interactive media.

Phygital Fashion – Referring to a mode of artistic production and representation linked to immaterial and material culture, this course will use digital strategies and tools to create fashion outcomes that exist in both digital and physical spaces. Students will analyze and study social dynamics, emotional impacts, and new aesthetic forms activated by digital technologies, and explore human relations and identities, multiculturalism, sustainability, and the expansive field of fashion. Students will explore the use of technology for creating, prototyping, making, simulating, sizing, presenting, animating, digital printing, image making, and storytelling. In this course, students will learn advanced CLO 3D skills to create: customized avatars, customized trims and hardware; 3D virtual spaces; and animation. Additionally, students are encouraged to explore subjects such as gaming, the metaverse, and digital inclusion through modes of AR/VR; and by using programs like Style3D and Blender.

Core Lab Interaction:

This course serves as a complement to Core Studio Interaction. The assignments are built to work in tandem with the projects students are developing in the studio class.

The Lab is designed around a series of small workshops that teach beginning and

intermediate interaction design through a hands-on engagement with HTML and CSS , CLO 3D as well as Blender, Unreal Engine, Rhino etc..

Although prior teaching experience is preferred, applicants with no prior teaching experience may apply if their professional practice speaks to qualities and skills in the programs abov.

We invite applications in the form of a one-page cover letter and a resume. Please provide any links to online portfolios and/or websites to facilitate the qualification review.

Part-time faculty at The New School bargain collectively through Academics Come Together, ACT - UAW , Local 7902.

Studio Hourly Rate: $120/contact hr

Seminar Hourly Rate: $146/contact hr

Work Mode: On-Campus & Synchronous Online

Minimum Qualifications:

+ An advanced degree in design or equivalent professional experience.

+ Experience using a variety of pedagogic methods to contextualize projects, exercises, and tools, within traditions of interface design, web design and digital product design.

+ Expertise in user research (including personas, interviews, card sorting) and prototyping cycles (including flow diagrams, storyboards, sketching, wireframes, paper prototype) as demonstrated through a body of publicly shared research, scholarship, or creative practice.

+ Working knowledge of HTML , CSS and JavaScript and experience using techniques and methods of Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) to create design mock-ups as demonstrated through a body of publicly shared research, scholarship, or creative practice

+ Working knowledge of CAD programs – CLO 3D, Blender, Unreal Engine, Rhino

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Please prepare a Resume/CV and Cover Letter outlining your previous relevant experience. Please include any relevant portfolio materials and/or a link to your professional website if applicable.