PCOMM partnered with New York City Council Member Lincoln Restler where he wrote an op-ed in Crain’s New York Business celebrating the partnership between Pratt Institute and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation as “an exciting example of how academic institutions can continue driving innovation, leading to the creation of new businesses that help fuel our local economy.” In the article, Restler explores the creative synergies at the Research Yard and Dock 72, writing that “by linking young creatives directly to the businesses that can help bring their ideas to life, Dock 72 is not only nurturing the next generation of creatives, but modeling how research institutions and businesses can collaborate to generate real-world impact on a local and potentially global scale.”
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Archinect covered the Lever Long Enough to Move the World: Sketches in Contemporary Architecture exhibition on display in Higgins Hall. “The curatorial framework proposes that sketches act as ‘levers,’ enabling architects to assert the physical and material dimensions of architecture within an increasingly digital and dematerialized design environment. Despite their small scale and provisional nature, sketches are presented as tools capable of exerting influence disproportionate to their size.”
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Rickie Gao, Ray Chen, Anniella Pettingill, and Rachel Genito, all BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’26, were shortlisted for the 2026 Communication Arts: Illustration Annual.
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Avery Norman, BFA Photography ’22, participated in a panel on “girlhood as an inner landscape where identity is imagined, tested, and continuously reshaped” for Vogue. She will also be showing work at the upcoming PhotoVogue Festival during Milan Fashion week.
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David McFadden, BArch ’79, shares his reflections on two competing schools of thought that shaped postmodernist architecture in the US with Archinect. “As a student, I found this position intellectually compelling. It offered rigor during a period of disciplinary instability. It suggested that architecture could preserve coherence through formal logic even when cultural consensus was fragmented.”
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Visiting Instructor of Industrial Design Jacob Turetsky was selected to be the jury captain for the Speculative Design category in Core77’s Design Awards, for which he will be “evaluating work that operates in the space between what is and what could be. His guidance to entrants acknowledges the category’s unique demands while emphasizing a crucial anchor point.”
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Information Jennifer Hubert Swan has a book review published in The New York Times. “In two newly published children’s books — one an English translation of an Italian classic and the other an exploration of the tragic consequences of the Nazi occupation of France — bravery arrives in a pint-size package and is all the better for it,” writes Swan.
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The firms of Ashely Kuo, BFA Interior Design ’14, and Harry Chadha, BArch ’17, are featured on The Architect’s Newspaper’s 20 to Watch list of rising residential architecture design talent in New York. Kuo’s firm is A+A+A, while Chadha’s is Chadha Ranch.
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La MaMa will present the world premiere of FOOTNOTES, created, designed, and directed by Emerita Professor of Art and Design Education Theodora Skipitares.
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Rhys Dreeszen Bowman co-authored a new article, “Contesting Queer Books: Analyzing the Discourses in Public Comment Sections at School Board Meetings,” which has been published in The Library Quarterly.
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