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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.

Keira Phillips, BFA Painting ’23, shared a day in the studio as part of Student Takeover Week on the @PrattInstitute Instagram. See more @PrattInstitute.

The film Habitually written, directed, and edited by Ama Buzo, Film ’24, was nominated for best thriller at the Paris Film Festival, won best thriller at the Florence Film Awards, and was an official selection in the Cannes World Film Festival. The short film examining the ways habits shape our lives can be viewed on YouTube.

The School of Information is organizing events to get their community offline and out in NYC, with a recent trip featuring foraging in Central Park with naturalist Steve Brill. See more @prattischool.

Interior Design magazine interviewed Alexandra Barker, assistant chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), about her work on projects like City Kids, a new Brooklyn preschool, and Design Advocates, which helped design outdoor retail and learning spaces, that have promoted wellness through design during the pandemic: “With public projects, you can’t know every single person who will experience a space, but hopefully there’s something in the design that will resonate.”