Green Week 2012

 

 

Brooklyn Campus March 24 - April 4

Thank you to everyone who helped coordinate, and who participated in or attended, Green Week 2012. There were so many events this year, and it was a huge success! Here are a few pictures to recap the week.

 

 

2012 Green Week Event Schedule

One Whole Day Special Event:                           

 

2ND ANNUAL SUSTAINABILITY CRASH COURSE
Mar. 24 Sat   9am - 5pm
Brooklyn Campus: CSDS & Eng. Bldg.
Choose from over 15 workshops, lectures,
and case study presentations by Pratt
faculty and industry experts.
Please fo to csdc.pratt.edu for more info.
Carolyn Schaeberle: csds@pratt.edu

 

All Day Week Long Events:                         

 

School of Architecture Green Week exhibit
Undergrad. & Grad. Architecture + PSPD/Planning
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30   All day
Higgins Hall: Lobby Gallery + Pit
Roxanne Earley: Roxanne.earley@gmail.com
Meta Brunzema: mbrunzem@pratt.edu
Brent Porter: mmsalstrom@aol.com

- Undergraduate Architecture: student work exhibition (3^rd year)                        
  Mar. 26 - Mar. 30  -  Higgins Hall Pit  -   Brent Porter
- Programs for Sustainable Planning & Development: student work exhibition
  Mar. 26 - Mar. 30  -  Higgins Hall Pit  -  Roxanne Earley
- Graduate Architecture & Urban Design
  Mar. 26 - Mar. 30  -  Higgins Hall Lobby Gallery  -  Meta Brunzema

Interior Design Green Week exhibit
Undergrad & Grad design studio work + EDI
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30    All Day           
Pratt Studio 2nd flr. Lobby          
Tetsu Ohara: tohara@pratt.edu
Jon Otis: jotis@pratt.edu 
Deborah Schneiderman: dschneid@pratt.edu

Interior Design Department Lobby – Mar. 19 – Mar. 30

- Undergraduate Interior Design  -   senior student work exhibition:
  Amtrack Train interiors (full semester)  -   Deborah Schneiderman
- Undergraduate Interior Design  -   INT 202 student work exhibition:
  Retail Changing Room (2wks)  -  C. Hernandez, S. Kask, C. Martin, MJ. Schlachter, B.Vas
- Undergraduate Interior Design  -   INT 517student work exhibition:
  Furniture Design  -  John Heida
- Qualifying Design Studio  -  graduate student work exhibition
  “Integrative Health Center” (5wks)  -  Tetsu Ohara, Henry Weitraub
- 1st Year Design Studio  -  graduate student work exhibition
  “Eko-Lab” Retail Design (6wks)  -  Myonggi Sul
- Exhibition Design Intensive Installations  -  graduate student work exhibion
  Interactive Water Cloud  -  Jon Otis

Interior Design Resource Material Library
Lunch seminars/screening film/lesson in research           
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30 All Day
Pratt Studio 1^st flr: Resource Library        
Megan Minton: mminton@pratt.edu

Fashion Design Green Week exhibit
Undergrad. design studio work
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30 All Day
Steuben Hall 2nd flr + Security Lobby 1st flr         
Robin Mollicone: rmollico@pratt.edu
Rachel Miller: rmille12@pratt.edu

Stop Motion Sustainability Videos
by Freshman Foundation 4-D students
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30 All Day
Main Building 3rd flr.
Myrel Chernick: myrelch@verizon.net

'A Language of Lines'
A shower of suspended messages
(in response to our urgently ticking clock)            
Mar. 26 - Apr. 01  All Day              
Newman Plaza Trees     
Cathy Billian: billianstudios@gmail.com
Kathryn Cullen-Dupont: kcullend@pratt.edu 

Free-cycle Market: 
Material exchange + donation          
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30 All Day
Main Lawn, Backup if rain: the Student Union
Enrico Purita: epurita@nypirg.org

Postcard Design Competition:
Ongoing submission for art of postcards (Feb. 23 - Mar. 30)
Mar. 25 - Apr. 04  All Day
Cafeteria hallway display cases
Alice Zines: azinnes@mindspring.com

- Art must relate to fracking or sustainability.  Written annotations required as well.  Judged by the Sustainability Committee.  Prizes: NYH2O and NYPIRG metal water bottles and tote bags, Gift certificates for the Pratt Art Store, and gifts from Red Lantern Bicycle.  Awards given out on April 4.  We're hoping the prize will be an exhibition of the student's work at the bike shop, Red Lantern Bike shop at 345 Myrtle Ave.

Student + Faculty Artwork Display:
information and photos on fracking and Green Week;
Postcard Competition; various on-campus recycling programs
Mar. 26 -Mar. 30  All Day
Cafeteria hallway display cases
Alice Zines: azinnes@mindspring.com

 

Time Specific Events:

Sustainable Storm Water Management: Theory to Implementation
Please see "Sustainability Crash Course" schedule for more info.
Mar. 24 Sat.
Engineering Building      
Julia Lyschik: jugoo217@gmail.com

- Much talk and some action has happened around New York City in order to find sustainable solutions to storm water management.  This panel discussion offers the opportunity to hear about two organizations, dlandstudio and Atema, that have been working on innovative design solutions for sustainable storm water management in conjunction with Tom Jost, Senior Urban Strategist at Parsons Brinckerhoff - Place Making, who has worked on multiple large scale sustainable projects and offers insight into the process and challenges involved when implementing projects in New York City.  Together the panelists will explore and expand upon their experience of the theory, design and implementation of sustainable storm water management in New York City.
                                              
Stop Motion Sustainability Videos
by Freshman Foundation 4-D students
Mar. 26, 29, 30   12:30-2:00pm
Pratt Studio Materials Library & CSDS library
Myrel Chernick: myrelch@verizon.net

*Environmental Coalition: Opening Reception
Dr. Tom Schutte - Keynote Speaker at 5:30pm
open to all faculty, admin, and students                               
Mar. 26 Mon.   5-7pm
Brooklyn Campus: Juliana Curran Terrian Design Center
Tetsu Ohara: tohara@pratt.edu

A screening of the film, I Want to Scream:
response to the horror of fracking created by Yechiam Gal         
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30   11:30am - 2:30pm     
Cafeteria hallway monitors near display cases
Alice Zines + Yechiam Gal: azinnes@mindspring.com

A screening of the film, I Want to Scream:
response to the horror of fracking created by:  Yechiam Gal        
Mar. 26 - Mar. 30   11am - 1pm & 5pm -7pm       
Gym lobby monitors
Alice Zines + Yechiam Gal: azinnes@mindspring.com

Wake up with CSDS - Bagels and Coffee              
Mar. 27  Tues.   8:45 - 10:30am
CSDS: Engineering bldg - lower level
Carolyn Schaeberle: csds@pratt.edu

The Recycling Reform Campaign
Mar. 27  Tues. & Mar. 29 Thurs.   12:30 - 2pm
Tables outside of the E. Bldg., Backup if rain: the Student Union
Organized by Envirolutions and SGA         
Tonya Kennedy: tkenned3@pratt.edu

-We will be introducing Pratt community members to Envirolutions' efforts to bring pre-collection sorting of recyclables to campus. 

"Gasland" film screening
Documentary on Hydrofracking
Mar. 28 Wed.   at 12:30pm
Pratt Studios Materials Library
Megan  Minton: mminton@pratt.edu

"A Celebration of Cycling":
Safe cycling tips, free helmets courtesy of the NYC Department of Transportation,
plus a bike art contest and free bike repair clinic courtesy of Red Lantern Bicyckes          
Mar. 29 Thurs.   12 - 7pm
Outside East Hall + Red Lantern Bicycles (345 Myrtle Avenue)
Chris Jensen: cjensen@pratt.edu
Cody Hughes: chughes@pratt.edu

Active Design Workshop
Interdisciplinary Design Workshop
March 29th 1-3pm
Pratt Studios, 4th floor, room 42
Active Design Guidelines presentation, followed by an active re-design challange of various campus areas
Alison Uljee and Sierra Seip, alison.and.sierra@gmail.com

Amplify Action Panel:
Moderated by Ann Holder
Mar. 29 Thurs.   6 - 8pm
Myrtle Hall 2nd flr. Room 2E.3
Brynna Tucker: btucker@pratt.edu
Rasu Jilani: rjilani@prattcenter.net
Space is limited. Plesase RSVP online

- This panel will launch the discussion surrounding an upcoming exhibition, Amplify Action: Sustainability Through the Arts, happening at the Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn in April 2012.  The exhibition demonstrates how arts, culture and media are powerful catalysts for social change, and aims to engage neighborhoods in a dialogue about sustainable living, making healthy consumer choices, and taking environmental action. Works in the exhibit will directly and indirectly examine the different components of sustainability such as, but not limited to: ecology, economy, equity, environmental consciousness, resource conservation and efficiency, agriculture, architecture, infrastructure, environmental justice and health. The panel will introduce a selection of artists participating in this exhibition who's work is a culmination of actions that take place over time either as a lifestyle change, ongoing project, or campaign to shift perception.  www.amplifyaction.org

*Environmental Coalition: Closing Reception
Mar. 29 Thurs.    12:30 - 2pm              
Brooklyn Campus: Higgins Lobby  
Meta Brunzema: mbrunzem@pratt.edu

"The Sustainabke Marketplace"
Lunch and Learn with representatives from
Carnegie Fabrics, Davies Office, Herman Miller and Interface Carpet
Mar. 30 Fri.   12 - 2pm
Juliana Curran Terian Design Center
Carol Crawford: Carol@ccenvironments.com

Cultural Perspectives on Sustainability:
A Panel Discussion exploring indigenous cultures
and their perspectives on equity the economy and the environment.
Mar. 30 Fri.   2 - 4pm     
Brooklyn Campus: Terrian Design Center             
Jamie Stein + Julia Lyschik: jaimelynnstein@gmail.com

- Join us, Friday, March 30th as professors form the schools of Architecture, Liberal Arts & Sciences and Art & Design will collaboratively convene a panel of practitioners from North and South America, South Africa and Asia to discuss cultural perspectives on sustainability.  Our intention is to begin a global dialogue surrounding environmental policy, science and design as well as issues of social and economic equity as experienced and practiced by diverse cultures. 
- The panel will be moderated by Urban Environmental Systems Management Professor, and member of the Cherokee Nation, Gelvin Stevenson.

Film Screening - Burning the Future: Coal in America
Mar. 30 Fri.   6:30 - 9pm               
Higgins Hall: Room 406
LEAP + Julia Lyschik: jugoo217@gmail.com

- Burning the Future: Coal in America, examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia, and draws a connection between the harmful practice of coal extraction in Appalachia and energy use consumption in New York City.  Confronted by emerging "clean coal" energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction.  Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their improbable fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.
- Followed by a Q&A with Brooklyn-based writer/director David Novack and members of New York Loves Mountains, a local organization devoted to raising awareness about mountaintop removal coal mining and to helping New Yorkers break our connection to one of America's dirtiest forms of energy.