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Alumna and longtime Pratt Institute donor Hiroko Nakamoto has committed significant funding for three gifts that will advance student diversity through interior design scholarships and improve spaces and landscapes on the Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses. A leading architectural interior…
Graduate Interior Design
David Foley has been named chair of Pratt Institute’s Interior Design Department. Foley, who assumed the role on December 1, 2020, has led the Interior Design Department as acting chair since July 2019. David Foley has been…
Architecture
Teaching and learning at Pratt Institute changed rapidly this spring as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic forced a move off the physical campus, and into digital spaces. Among the classroom and studio practices that needed to be reimagined were…
How to view art when the usual experience of visiting a museum is impossible is a question that institutions are now confronted with around the globe. Pratt Institute interior design students in the MFA Graduate Foundations Design Studio course were…
A new website is offering a digital window into an exciting range of bold creative work by this year’s graduating Pratt students. Launched this May, the Pratt Shows portfolio website showcases individual student work and projects from across Pratt’s…
Fashion
From artist books, to cultural surveys, to collections of neighborhood histories and poetry, Pratt faculty have contributed notable works to several corners of the literary landscape this year. Read on for New and Noteworthy’s annual look…
City and Regional Planning
Uncertainty about where the next meal will come from is an insecurity impacting millions of people. Pratt Institute researchers are investigating how to make healthy food more attainable for all, both locally and around the world.
The interior design and architecture programs at Pratt Institute are ranked among the best in the United States, according to “America’s Top-Ranked Architecture & Design Schools” from DesignIntelligence (DI), a monthly architecture and…
Graduate Industrial Design
During a seizure, an epileptic needs a safe space, but that’s not always available when an episode can happen anywhere and anytime. Uma Smith, BID ‘19, made a portable product that instantly creates…
Could a solution to the international food waste crisis be in the respiratory system of a cricket or the ribs of a cactus? A team of Pratt Institute design students has been named as a finalist…
