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DEAN’S
LETTER

Work 8: Interior Sites is the eighth volume of the interior
design journal founded and edited by Professor Johanne
Woodcock, the Director of the Associate of Applied Science
in Interior Design (AAS ID) program at Parsons School of
Design. AAS ID draws most of its students from other pro-
fessions and disciplines looking for the greater challenges
and rewards in the creative field of interior design. With
a focus on rigorous professional preparation, Professor
Woodcock skillfully curates a series of thematic studios
each year, sending graduates into the profession with new
questions and areas of inquiry. The Work series captures
and archives the history of these yearly inventions, which
have become important milestones in the century long
tradition of interiors at Parsons.

The timely theme of interior sites represents the global
reach of projects that faculty and students have brought to
this year’s volume. In addition to community and archival
spaces in New York City, interiors projects are sited in
post-gambling Atlantic City, New Jersey; a favela in Brazil,