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The Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI) Center at Pratt is one of the grant recipients for projects along the Hudson River Estuary that will help communities improve recreational access, enhance environmental education, and advance stewardship of natural resources. The funding from New York State’s Environmental Protection Fund supports SAVI’s Estuary Access Project map that will offer up-to-date information encouraging New Yorkers to access and enjoy the Hudson River.

The Schafler Gallery on the Brooklyn campus is hosting Place/Displace featuring work by faculty in the Department of Digital Arts. The exhibition is curated by Assistant Chair Linda Lauro-Lazin. See more @prattexhibits.

Studio projects from Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) students Carlos J. Balza Gerardino, MS Arch ’21, and Humna Naveed, MS Urban Design ‘21, were featured in AIA New York’s Oculus magazine. The work was highlighted in a story on students leading the way in social justice.

Pratt was included on the Wrap’s Top 50 Film Schools of 2021 list. The ranking was based on an anonymous poll of more than 1,200 entertainment-industry insiders, educators, deans, filmmakers, and film pundits.

Brad Lander, MS City and Regional Planning ’98 and former director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, was elected New York City comptroller. In his victory speech, he said: “We are going to carry our city forward in a way that is more just and equitable and sustainable.”

Mateo Arciniegas Huertas, BFA Photography ’25, exhibited portraits of the soccer intramural league Liga Gorytos Sports in an outdoor installation in partnership with ACOMPI at Reinaldo Salgado Playground in Brooklyn. As Huertas told Bushwick Daily, he connected with the players during the pandemic: “The importance from this project, it’s like a step closer to achieving that sense of belonging that, I think for a lot of people that come from Latin America, is finding that sense of community.” See more @prattphotography.

In an Archinect article timed with the UN COP26 climate summit, Signe Nielsen, adjunct professor of undergraduate architecture, joined other architectural leaders in sharing their thoughts: “Boundaries in nature are governed by biology, chemistry, and physics and function interdependently; natural systems do not operate in isolation, and their actions are both spatially and temporally dynamic.”

For LGBTQ History Month, @prattinstitute shared the work of alumna Michela Griffo who has since 1970 organized for lesbian rights and inclusion within the women’s movement. Recently she worked with the Generations Project to create the Stonewall Time Capsule and also exhibited in the 2019 Art after Stonewall: 1969–1989 traveling exhibition. Read more @prattinstitute.