As you may recall, we're big fans of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design. Designed with mind-boggingly efficiency by Lyn Rice Architects, the building wraps a Greenwich Village corner in a bustling, shape-shifting campus hub/art gallery/event space, complete with an auditorium that is at once sleek and cozy. So we're pleased to report that Parsons has selected a director and chief curator for the SJDC in Radhika Subramaniam, who will also serve as an assistant professor of art and design history and theory.

An independent curator, editor, and writer, Subramaniam most recently served as director of cultural orograms at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was also the founding and executive editor of Connect: art.politics.theory.practice, an interdisciplinary art journal published by Arts International, and has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and New York University. "The New School is an extraordinary place of intersecting cultures, academic scholarship, and global social consciousness," said Subramaniam in a statement issued today. "The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center has the potential to be a leading forum for 'creative research' that considers conceptions of intimate and public realms as well as physical and virtual space, and for responding with intellectual rigor to the questions of form and politics."