Courtney Knapp, professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, was recently featured in the Planner’s Network Disorientation Guide about confronting the carceral state in planning.
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SLEEK visits Agnes Questionmark, MFA Fine Arts ’25, for an interview and studio visit. “Blending mythology, medical science, and personal cosmology, Agnes Questionmark creates hybrid beings and surreal worlds that challenge the boundaries of identity, technology, and transformation.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Amanda Lewis led a panel, “Generative AI, Art, and the Bounds of Creativity,” at this summer’s ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency ’25.
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The Society of Illustrators awarded Jimmy Li, BFA Communications Design ’26, the 2025 Will Eisner Scholarship, and Rachel Genito, BFA Communications Design ’26, the 2025 Zankel Scholarship. This is the first time that a student from Pratt Institute has won either the Eisner or Zankel scholarships.
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Visiting Associate Professor of Interior Design Ji Young Kim’s practice, PRAXES, received a Red-Dot Design Award for its library Assembled Void at the Manhattan Korean Cultural Center.
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The Office of Research and Strategic Partnerships’ Building Futures exhibition within the Time Space Existence architecture showcase at the Venice Biennale runs through November 23 and features a range of Pratt research and co-design projects including the Pratt Center’s EnergyFit NYC program, School of Design partnership with Gotham Professional Arts, and the Ice Box Challenge and Passive Housing Training Center from In Cho, visiting assistant professor of undergraduate architecture. The exhibition, developed with Cycle Architecture, explores circular construction, co-living, adaptive reuse, and deep energy retrofit of existing buildings.
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Big News Network profiled Ye Tian, MSIXD ’22. “[At Pratt,] she combined her creative foundation with a human-centered research methodology, discovering her true mission: to use design to solve real-world problems. With a solid academic background and outstanding innovative spirit, Ye Tian quickly distinguished herself in healthcare design, demonstrating extraordinary potential as a leader in the industry.”
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Mark Grattan, BID ’06, spoke with Untapped Journal for “The House I Grew Up In,” the 2025–2026 theme of their symposium, Making Space. “It’s important to sit in [your home], understand how you feel in it, acknowledge how you move around the space, and identify things that will make you feel better in it.”
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We Were the Scenery, directed by Assistant Professor of Film/Video Christopher Radcliff, screened at IFC Center from July 4 to 10 as part of the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. Radcliff also had a recent film screening at Metrograph, alongside a film screening by Visiting Assistant Professor of Film/Video Suneil Sanzgiri.
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Alessandra Clemente, BFA Interior Design ’22, was profiled in Haute Residence. At Pratt, her thesis “received the prestigious Pratt Institute Social Justice Award in the Leadership Category, highlighting its engagement with real social and spatial issues.”
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