WIP Collaborative—a New York-based design platform that includes Abigail Coover, adjunct associate professor of undergraduate architecture, Sera Ghadaki, MArch ’18, Sonya Gimon, MS Sustainable Environmental Systems ’18, and Elsa Ponce, MPS Design Management ’17—was honored with the New Perspectives Award at this year’s AIA New York Design Awards.
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Visit GoPrattGo.com for recent updates from Pratt Athletics, including junior Daniel Golub and senior Kinako Miyake being named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Basketball Teams, junior Patrick O’Gorman and sophomore Cameron Hatcher being named to the 2023 All-Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Second Team, and sophomore Kylie Grant being named to the 2023 All-Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Second Team.
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The annual Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) student placemaking publication MULTIPLICITY: Adaptation & Resilience is out now. Explore the digital version on ISSUU.
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Gen Z Mental Health: Climate Stories created by Stranded Astronaut Productions, a collective which includes Maxfield Biggs, BFA Film ’20, is screening on March 19 at the Socially Relevant Film Festival at Cinema Village in Manhattan. The short documentary explores the mental health impacts of the climate crisis on young adults worldwide.
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Eva Díaz, associate professor of history of art and design, contributed a suite of articles on Puerto Rico to Frieze magazine, including the cover article for the March issue on the San Juan-based collective Poncilí Creacíon.
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Jing Liu, visiting professor in Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) and program coordinator of the Master of Science in Architecture, and Karolina Czeczek, visiting assistant professor of undergraduate architecture, are exhibiting in Architecture Now: New York, New Publics at the Museum of Modern Art. On view through July 29, it explores projects for public-facing spaces across New York City and the role of architecture in fostering participation and belonging.
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Gina Gregorio, adjunct associate professor of fashion design, was interviewed for Fashionista’s story, “How Should Fashion Schools Address Sustainability?”: “There’s this incredible youth culture around thrifting and upcycling, but I think the role of the school is to show people how to scale.”
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Alyse Delaney, MLIS ’24, a special collections and archives graduate assistant at Pratt Libraries, explored the history of Pratt Manhattan’s four locations through her work on cataloging archival items from the Department of Exhibitions. Read more on the Iron & Glass blog.
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Alison Snyder, professor of interior design, was honored with the AMPS (Architecture Media Politics Society) UCL Press Journal Award for 2022 for her article “The designed and the ad hoc: dynamic remakings of street space in New York City” in the journal Architecture_MPS.
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Time Out New York featured the “Pratt Transit Art Tour” recently developed by Pratt’s communications team. The story includes quotes from Jane South, chair of fine arts: “The city is an extension of our campus. We educate on campus but also in museums—and now also on the subway.”
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