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The Robotics Lab in the Pratt School of Architecture houses two robotic arms to aid students in architectural model making. Visit @prattinstitute to see an arm in action.

The New York Times featured alumnus Duke Riley’s new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that involves materials collected from beaches in the northeastern United States: “As artists, we’re going to have to start thinking differently about the materials that we use.” The article includes a quote from former faculty member Ernesto Pujol.

Each spring, the MFA Graduate Foundations Core Design Studio course in the Department of Interior Design asks students to draw inspiration from Isamu Noguchi’s work. This year they explored the retail sales experience at the Noguchi Museum through the design of a new Noguchi Showroom. View their work, including the winning and finalist projects, in an online exhibition.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center, was interviewed for a PIX11 story on the state assembly looking at ways to legalize and improve basement apartments. With the Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone Campaign, she helped start a pilot program in the East New York-Cypress Hills area of Brooklyn in 2019.

“Wetwork” by Ross Cameron, MID ’22, is a door system anticipating climate change that enables escape, rescue, and survival in extreme urban flooding situations. Read more on the Pratt MID site.

Julia Rosenzweig, MSLIS ’21, was interviewed as part of the Archival Innovators series for her work on the Lesbian Elders Oral Herstory Project at the Lesbian Herstory Archives: “The idea of an oral history project that could continue the Archives’ mission of collecting the experiences of lesbians while weathering the pandemic—especially the stories of our Elders, who were and continue to be at risk—was a driving force.”

Pascale Sablan, BArch ’06, and Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, are included in Future Rising, a feature from Hearst and Oprah Daily spotlighting “50 Black Trailblazers Move Our World Forward.”

“Mixed Reality Inhabitation” by Elodia Wei, BFA Interior Design ’22, inspires an exploration of historical architecture and artifacts through digital technologies. See more @prattinteriors.

“Learning by Landscape” by undergraduate architecture student Gabrielle Del Rosario uses various window shapes to bring landscapes into a classroom so they become part of students’ educational experiences. Read more @prattsoa.

John Powers, BFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’98, was featured in a segment on the PBS NewsHour. Powers discussed how his art transformed after losing or injuring multiple fingers in an accident: “I had a sense of my hands as characters in my life. What I didn’t have the sense of was how much they shape the way I think.”