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A virtual tour of Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view through April 6 in Pratt’s Brooklyn campus library, is available online. The exhibition is based on the materials related to ephemeral and avant-garde art in the Franklin Furnace Archive, which relocated to Pratt in 2014.

Interview magazine featured a conversation that includes Anika Levy, BFA Writing ’17, about Forever, the literary magazine she co-founded: “I think the idea of publishing feels so formal and institutional that we had this moment like, ‘Oh, we can actually just print this out and call it a magazine and it is.’”

DesignWanted interviewed studio ANDEAN founder Alejandro Moyano, MID ’19, on how the designer is promoting Ecuadorian material heritage. Moyano shared how studying at Pratt influenced an “ongoing interest in reaching solutions that directly impact a demographics’ need.”

Pratt students from Turkey and Pratt do_ (the Pratt chapter of IDSA) are partnering to raise awareness and relief following the Turkey–Syria earthquakes. Find details on donations and where to share physical items.

The 2022-23 Taconic Fellows have been announced, including a Pratt phenology trail, public history of transportation access, and a food justice project. Awarded annually by the Pratt Center for Community Development, the fellowships support Pratt’s contribution to civic engagement by supporting partnerships with community groups and organizations across New York City.

The Pratt Community Engagement Board is hosting the second annual Books to Prisons book drive. Books can be donated to different libraries for the incarcerated in New York City through the Prison Library Support Network’s Wishlists.

Participation by Anna Moschovakis, adjunct associate professor-CCE of writing, was reviewed in Bookforum and The Capilano Review. The novel is out now from Coffee House Press.

Layla Zami, adjunct associate professor of humanities and media studies, hosts the new Sonic Interventions podcast that explores the poetics of sound and its power to disrupt norms and transform society. The first episode is timed with Black History Month and features Mendi + Keith Obadike (a duo which includes Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies Mendi Obadike).

Pratt Center released “Creating Corner Stores and Cornerstones: How NYC Can Help Mission-Driven Housing Developers Create and Sustain Commercial & Community Spaces,” a report responding to the growing problem of commercial vacancies in New York City. It provides solutions that both the City and State can take to protect commercial businesses in a rental market that is pricing them out.

Luka Lucic, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was interviewed for Nature’s story “COVID school closures cost children one-third of a year’s learning”: “Kids were getting super familiarized with the cyberspace and technological context, and will in the future be much more native to the digital world.”