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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • In this summer’s Ecosystemic Drawing Interior Options Lab, students created compositions representing ecological environments using digital techniques. See more @prattinteriors.

  • Karina Sharif, BFA Fashion Design ’08, was featured in Vice’s i-D magazine as part of the BTF100, a list of Black creatives, artists, and tastemakers making an impact on art and media. The article highlights her artwork that involves wearable paper sculptures, photography, and set design: “I tend to think of Black womxn and our minds, [our] voices, as a map. All we need to do is connect in order to continually see and contribute to the vision.”

  • The Pratt Center for Community Development announced the 2021-22 Taconic Fellows. This year’s edition of the annual awards supports teams of Pratt faculty, staff, and students working on projects related to public health, from healthy food vending carts to reviving a neglected community garden. See all the fellows here.

  • The Pratt Textile Dye Garden located on the Brooklyn campus recently harvested fresh indigo leaves for bundle dyeing. The project explores collaboration, sustainability, and experimentation in using natural dyes. See more @prattdyegarden.

  • Architecture student Venice Patron⁠⁠ designed “Flip Learning,” a junior high school that challenges the idea of conventional classrooms by encouraging at-home learning. See more @prattsoa.

  • This Tuesday from 3 PM to 8 PM EST, Pratt’s Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program is joining a virtual and in-person event at the Center for Architecture with the AIANY Committee on the Environment, NJIT’s Hillier School of Architecture, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Wast(ED): Living with Trash will examine how waste is addressed in an urban context. The event includes work from Pratt and NJIT students. See a full schedule of panels and register for the free event online.

  • The Pratt Center for Community Development has released New York’s Housing Underground: 13 Years Later, an update to their 2008 analysis that found over 100,000 “informal” basement, cellar, and other unaccounted-for units across New York City. The report can be explored online.

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