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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.

The School of Information received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to support a partnership with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center National Archive; Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc; and the Lesbian Herstory Archives to expand its graduate fellowship program for emerging LAM (library, archive, and museum) professionals to better serve diverse communities and collections.

This semester’s Pratt Earth Action Week kicks off today with programming that examines our current systems for disaster response and considers a more resilient future for climate events. Explore the full schedule of events for both in-person and virtual happenings such as exhibitions, discussions, design jams, workshops, mindfulness gatherings, and more.

On Monday, November 1, from 5 PM to 7 PM, join Tune in to Vote on the Pratt Brooklyn campus main lawn. The event will include music, button making, and more to encourage the Pratt community to make a voting plan and learn more about important measures on the ballot for November 2.

In an article on Domus, Harriet Harriss, dean of the School of Architecture, and Quilian Riano, assistant dean, discussed the shifts in education over the past months, the potential for technology in learning, and the future of architecture.

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