Lisa DeBenedittis

Lisa DeBenedittis is an Assistant Professor of Design Research at Parsons School of Design, and most recently has served as Vice Provost of The New School, and Associate Dean at Parsons.
She completed her Ph.D. (NYU) in 2005, writing on the aesthetics of subjectivity, and completed her analytic training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, now in practice in New York City and Long Island.
She writes and researches on subjectivity and the spatial imagination. In particular, she is most interested in the ways in which people interact with both natural and designed environments, and the impact of these engagements on the imaginal life.
Lisa has just returned from a humanitarian trip to Greece, where she visited various refugee housing and support services in Athens and on Lesbos, and volunteered with the Swedish NGO, I Am You, serving in the refugee camps at Ritsona and Oinofyta. While at Ritsona, she began informal resume-writing workshops, and is currently formalizing a proposal to return and continue this project at scale.