Cooper Union

Deo Deiparine

Instructor Adjunct

Deo Deiparine works across art and architecture and focuses on topics of collectivity, self-determination, and posthumanism. He has worked with design practices that engage in community-driven and non-profit client partnerships, such as currently with aanda architects as a project manager and recently with Outside Development as an architectural designer. Deo has written and edited for the publication, Paprika!, has served as exhibition coordinator for the Jim Vlock Building Project in collaboration with the non-profit housing provider, Columbus House, has exhibited at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT, and founded the project exhibition space, Free Paarking in St. Louis, MO, for which he also served as curator for nine exhibitions. He holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Design from Washington University in St. Louis.

Deiparine's CV is available here.

Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
“My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”
From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.
Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.