Assistant/Associate Professor of Futures and Foresight

Tenure-Track Appointment

School of Design Strategies

Parsons School of Design

Start date: July 1, 2024

Parsons School of Design, a college of The New School, acknowledges the ancestral and traditional territories of The Lenape People on which our faculty, staff and students work, learn, and create. We recognize that New York City has the largest urban Indigenous population in the United States.

Parsons is committed to cultivating curricula grounded in social, racial, gender, disability, and climate justice. As fundamental to this process, we are launching multiple full-time faculty positions in Indigenous knowledges and practices. This initiative endeavors to begin readdressing the underrepresentation of Indigenous knowledges and practices at Parsons. We invite applications from candidates whose work centers ways of understanding and practicing art, design, and strategy that honors the original stewards, artists, makers, and designers on Turtle Island.

As part of this cluster search, we invite candidates for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor of Futures & Foresight in the School of Design Strategies beginning July 1, 2024.

We seek candidates whose research or professional/creative practice explores issues of equity and access within art, design, business, and/or management fields while responding to structures of privilege and power as they relate to those issues. Candidates should demonstrate a desire to collaboratively discover and prototype next-generation practices in one or more of the following areas: design imaginaries, speculative exploration, design fiction, futuring, futures fluency, foresight for management or organizing, data sovereignty, indigenous AI, and other transformation strategies. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work centers indigenous knowledges and practices and/or benefits indigenous communities in the fields of art, design, and/or business.

Responsibilities

The work of this faculty member is divided between (1) teaching, (2) scholarship or professional/creative practice, and (3) university service. The standard teaching load is five courses––or the equivalent––per academic year. Within their field of expertise, the faculty member will be expected to teach undergraduate, including First Year, as well as graduate courses, to majors and non-majors. They will hold regular office hours, and participate in extracurricular teaching activities such as critiques, review panels, thesis supervision, independent study, and advising. University service includes program, Parsons, and New School assignments on committees and task forces, and as program directors or associate directors with a reduced teaching load in graduate and undergraduate programs, including the undergraduate First Year. All faculty are expected to be engaged with scholarship or professional/creative practice at a level commensurate with their faculty rank.

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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate degree, or equivalent experience, in artistic- and design-based research, design, or exploratory social sciences.
• Active/current professional practice or creative/critical scholarship that advances practice and theories of change in complex contexts including design-driven transformation initiatives, material explorations, foresight, design imaginaries, and/or futuring.
• Experience in professional/creative practice that centers anti-racism, intersectional understandings of justice (including but not limited to racial justice, social justice, and environmental justice), and/or inclusion in design, business, and/or management.
• Two years teaching at college, university, community-based, and/or secondary education level with evidence of engagement with course and syllabus development/planning.)
• Candidates seeking a position at Associate level must demonstrate equivalent teaching, research/practice experience, service and successful completion of academic review.
• Strong interest in working collaboratively across Parsons and the University.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team, as a collaborator or lead.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines, communicate and motivate effectively.
• Evidence of a commitment to educational equity in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of cross-cultural communication skills in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of demonstrated interest in/building the ability to mentor and support students from diverse backgrounds, to develop and nurture the individual student’s abilities, and a strong commitment to progressive education. This evidence can be in a candidate’s teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
• Evidence of a commitment to diversity and inclusion (in classroom, campus, community) in teaching, research, scholarship, professional/creative practice, or other experience.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience teaching English language learners, students from low income backgrounds, and first generation college students.
• University-level teaching that includes a combination of studios, seminars, and tutorials, at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Experience in higher education academic setting, with a working knowledge of curriculum development, student support, and management.
  
  

WORK MODALITY

On-Campus Position: Faculty are expected to work on-campus due to the nature of the work in accordance with the University policies as set forth in the Full-Time Faculty Handbook.

SALARY RANGE

Assistant Professor: $94,000 - $109,000

Associate Professor: $108,000 - $123,000

Priority Application Deadline: February 29, 2024

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANTS

To Apply, Please Submit

• A current CV.
• A cover letter: 1-2 pages summarizing experiences as related to the requirements of this job description.
• A letter of application: a 1-2 page statement that describes artistic/design/research practice and teaching philosophy. Please include in the statement an articulation of your approach to inclusive pedagogy and demonstrated evidence of commitment to equity, inclusion and social justice.
• 1 sample syllabus.
• The names and contact information for three professional and/or community references.
  
  

Longlisted Candidates Will Be Asked To Provide

• 3-5 examples of student work mentored by the applicant
  
  

Please visit www.newschool.edu/parsons/academics for a full list of programs.

We look forward to receiving your application!