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Dean of the School of Architecture Quilian Riano discusses his goals, inspirations, and views on leadership in an interview with The Architect’s Newspaper. “Leadership becomes easier when there is a grassroots desire for it, which I see right now to tackle rigorously with labor, environmental, and social justice issues,” he said.

Sylvia Morse, a program manager for policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development, recently spoke about local efforts to establish community land trusts and affordable housing at a public event hosted by Pratt Institute. “Why is it that the majority of CLTs are still fighting for land even as the city mentions CLTs as an important model in its current housing plan?” Morse asked the audience. “We’re seeing forms of vocal support, but there isn’t a comprehensive approach yet to how the city is looking at building out community land trusts.”

Ryan Pauly, BID ’02, and Cody Stonerock of Kuzco Lighting have been awarded a Prize Design for Modern Furniture + Lighting 2023 by Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum for Architecture and Design as Best Lighting of the Year for their work Collide that took inspiration from ocean waves.

Pratt Institute has earned a STARS Gold rating in the 2023 Sustainable Campus Index, ranking in the top 10 of masters degree-awarding institutions for overall performance. Pratt received particularly high marks for curriculum, research, and campus engagement. STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.

Aura Rosenberg, adjunct professor-CCE of photography, discusses her work and career in a wide-ranging interview with writer and filmmaker Veronica Gonzalez Peña for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rosenberg and Peña also talk about the film that they have been working on for the past year and a half.

Alexandra Barker, interim chair of Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), will have her project, City Kids Education Center, toured as part of the upcoming Archtober series. The two-story, 11,000 square-foot learning center provides preschool and after-school programs.

Little Wing Lee, MS Interior Design ’06, shares her thoughts on five of her most important works in advance of the Dezeen Awards, for which she will serve as a judge. “My designs are always informed by context, location, and function,” she said. “I always think about the project’s story and connect that to the design decisions I make.”

This year’s New York Film Festival, which is presented by Film at Lincoln Center, includes a short film by Mackie Mallison, BFA Film ’23. Live From the Clouds, which was Mallison’s senior thesis film, will be screened on October 7 and 8 as part of the Currents lineup.

Amanda Huynh, assistant professor of industrial design, received the IDSA Young Educator Award for 2023 for her “noteworthy impact on industrial design education within the early years of [her] academic career.” Huynh said she hopes to inspire students to “pursue industrial design as your whole selves, the same way I have come to.”

Maggie Brennan, MFA Digital Arts ’19, wrote and animated a new show as part of The Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim SMALLS program. Agoraphilia follows a woman named Brenda working as a nonprofit street canvasser. “This was the first time I had to think about making the animation process more streamlined and iterative while balancing my own preferences for how things look and move,” Brennan said.