Design firm A+A+A — co-founded by Visiting Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ashley Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14; former Taconic Fellow Andrea Chiney, and Arianna Deane — has been honored as a 2025 “New Practices New York” emerging firm by AIANY. The winners were recognized for their “distinctive voice in engaging the critical issues that are relevant now.”
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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MFA Fashion Collection + Communication students participated in a Zombie Workshop led by British artist Jeremy Hutchison. “The workshop, based on Hutchison’s work Dead White Man, aims to subvert the ideology of fast fashion by hijacking its aesthetics. Students concluded the workshop by packaging their zombies as toxic commodities, creating lookbooks, styling, video, and photography.”
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Manman Li, MFA Digital and Interactive Arts ’23, received Bronze in Multimedia/Interactive Media in the 2024 International Design Awards for their project “Manipulate,” while Hanzhang Zhu, BFA Communications Design (Graphic Design) ’25, received Bronze in Multimedia/Brand Identity for their project “Mise Rice Wine rebranding.”
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Shikai Huang, MArch ’22, and Hung-Ju Liu, MArch ’22, received the Emerging Architectural Design of the Year award in the 2024 International Design Awards for their project “Exploratorium,” while Rachel Guo, MArch ’25, and Nour El Choueiri, MArch ’25, received Gold in Other Architectural Designs/Conceptual Architectural Designs for their project “Lolux Care +.”
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Five Industrial Design students were recognized in the 2024 International Design Awards: Sean Lin, MID ’24, received Silver in Personal & Lifestyle/Health & Wellness Products for his project “Resilience Strategy – The Vibroacoustic Vest”; Weiqi Revive Sun, MID ’25, received Silver in Conceptual Products/Office & Work for his project “Stretch Go”; Linghui Ding, MID ’25, received Silver in Conceptual Products/Electronics for her project “Flat”; Siyu Steven Xiao, BID ’24, won Bronze in Automotive & Transport for his project “MedDash”; and Jenny Shan, BID ’25, received Honorable Mention for her project “The World in My Kitchen.”
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“Youth Participatory Politics: Understanding and Supporting Civic Engagement in the Social Media Era,” co-authored by Assistant Professor in the School of Information Ashley Lee, was published in Handbook of Children and Screens (Springer). Lee also participated in an invited workshop on Global Platform Accountability at New York University. The workshop was held to encourage social engagement in scholarship on global tech power and to generate transnational synergies between scholars and practitioners.
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Judith Solodkin, visiting associate professor of fine arts, was interviewed for Christie’s. Solodkin talks about working with Louise Bourgeois, printmaking as collaboration, and being a woman in the arts in the ’70s. “I really love making prints, and I love doing it with artists. So as long as I could do that, I was very happy.”
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Chair of Undergraduate Architecture Stephen Slaughter served as a juror for the SOM Foundation 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award and the ACSA Collaborative Practice Award. Slaughter reflected on the experience for the School of Architecture News Page: “This was the most difficult jury I have ever participated in. I found myself deeply moved by both the students’ essays and videos, wavering between the value of merit and the value of need. Seeing how accomplished, compelling, and beautiful the work was only made my deliberations more challenging.”
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Adjunct Professor – CCE of Fine Arts Greg Drasler; Assistant Professor of Film/Video Chris Radcliff; and Adjunct Associate Professor of Fashion Design Kerry Ryan have been selected for the Siena Art Institute 2025 Faculty Residency Award. The Fellows will spend the month of June in Italy.
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An exhibition by Jen Mazza, visiting associate professor of Fine Arts, was reviewed in Dart Magazine. “Mazza’s poetic conceptualism works like poetry itself, placing one image adjacent to the next, and allowing their energetic conjunction to conjure something new in our consciousness,” writes John Mendelsohn. In conjunction with her exhibition, Mazza will be in conversation with Eric Dean Wilson at Ulterior Gallery.