The Daily Hub

Works from the Student Choice Exhibition are being shared on @prattfoundation. The pieces were selected by students as their favorites from their Foundation year.

Dezeen interviewed Stephen Slaughter about his plans as the new chair of undergraduate architecture at Pratt: “I hope that we’ll be graduating smart, intelligent, caring, compassionate activist students.”

Student work from the 3D design class led by Adjunct Professor – CCE Kathryn Filla is on view in the Engineering Building. See more @prattindustrial.

The IDC Foundation-funded PRAX_IS Innovation Incubator announced its inaugural awardees from the School of Architecture’s graduate programs. The incubator supports start-up funds, mentorship, and workspace to develop a business that amplifies climate literacy in the construction industry.

Graduate architecture students Ersan Illktan and Dani Abella designed “Ascendant Habitat” to explore the idea of a heightened connection to nature through sensory spirituality and a sense of materiality. Read more @prattsoa.

Elizabeth Bridges, MFA Interior Design ’18, and Garrett Benisch, MID ’19, were interviewed by Material Source on how they are transforming waste into new materials. Their work will be featured in the From the Ground Up biomaterials exhibition at Material Source Studio in Manchester.

Foundation faculty members Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson were shortlisted finalists in the Art and Science category of the 2021 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year for “Delay Lines” which explores relations between the environment, computing, robotics, and artificial life forms.

For Black Artstory Month on Myrtle Avenue, Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, created an interactive work in the windows of the Film/Video Building. Learn more @prattinstitute and on the Pratt.edu news page.

“Work” by April Maxey, BFA Film ’12, was part of the Short Film section at the 2022 Sundance Festival. In an interview with the San Antonio Current, Maxey discussed her work and the decision to change her focus from graphic design to film and video at Pratt: “I still think there is so much room for different voices in queer storytelling.”