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  • Claudia Marina

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    claudiamarina@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    K - 113 University Place

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    Claudia Marina

    Profile

    Claudia Marina is a Part-Time Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design. Her work is centered in feminist design discourse and theories of everyday life, particularly what it means to perform and consume design. Her latest research examines material, spatial and percieved difference in understanding what design is in culture as well as issues of labor and maintenance of design. 

    Her work appears in Feminist Designer (MIT Press, 2023), Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Bloomsbury, 2020), Design and Culture, and The Avery Review.

    Degrees Held

    MA Design Studies, Parsons School of Design

    BS Journalism, University of Florida

    Research Interests

    interior design, material culture, anthropology, design/studio culture, kitsch, language, spatial studies, theories of everyday life, objectification

    Current Courses

    ARS: Visual Culture
    PLVS 3500, Spring 2024

    Intro to Arch Theory: Lec
    PLSD 2200, Spring 2024

    Theory of the Interior
    PGID 5111, Spring 2024

    Future Courses

    ID Histories and Theories 1
    PAID 1040, Fall 2024

    ID Histories and Theories 2
    PAID 1041, Fall 2024

    Interior Design Survey
    PGID 5015, Fall 2024

    Intro to Design Studies Lec
    PLDS 2500, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Interior Design Survey
    PGID 5015, Fall 2023

    Intro to Design Studies Lec
    PLDS 2500, Fall 2023

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