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In a Q&A for the AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC), Nida Abdullah, assistant professor of undergraduate communications design, shared insights on teaching design, the link between practice and pedagogy, and what topics need to be addressed in design education: “I want to encourage students to question the systems we follow and question where they came from.”

In a Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) Alumni Spotlight, Samuel S. T. Pressman, MS Sustainable Environmental Systems ’19, shared his current work in designing food systems and gardens for schools and community spaces: “When I do a community project, I am always eager to first find out as much as I can about what the real needs, challenges, and desires are in that given community or block.”

In its Factory Friday series, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is highlighting makers throughout the city featuring photographs by Pratt student Jacob Grumulaitis. See more @madeinnewyorkcity.

Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, illustrated the November 2021 cover of National Geographic. It depicts two centuries of excavations from six continents: “I’m very much interested in the human story and the journey of the hero. And much of what we see in ancient Egypt, through temples and the architecture and the story on the walls, is very much about the journey of the hero.”

The Pratt Staff Council commissioned Jordan Moss, BFA ’16, to create a print celebrating the staff who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic to ensure the continued success and safety of Pratt’s students and campus. Read more @prattinstitute.

Pratt is included in the 2022 Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges that features sustainability information from 420 schools.

The New York Review of Books featured The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During, associate professor of social science and cultural studies. The book examines the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity.

Yaokun Wu, BID ’21, was featured in the recent Lexus Design Award 2020/2021 Finalists Exhibition held in Tokyo. Wu was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Lexus Design Award for Flash Pak, a project aimed at protecting primary to high school students in parts of the world that experience flash floods.