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  • Pratt pair Claire McKinney and Sophie Andes Gascon, both BFA Fashion Design ’15, were included in The New York Times Style Magazines article on new and emerging designers on the rise. “The pair, who met while studying at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, also design clothing. This season, after taking a break from it, they returned to a runway format and were included on the CFDA’s official New York calendar for the first time.” They also received coverage in i-D.

  • “Last Year…”, an animated short by Emmett Goodman, adjunct instructor of Digital Arts and Animation, will be included in the 2025 Woodstock Film Fest, an Oscar-qualifying competition showcasing 112 films, including 28 animated shorts. “An animator creates one second of animation every day for a whole year, resulting in a visual stream-of-consciousness that is funny, colorful and whimsical.”

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Art and Design Kate Sekules was featured in the Costume Society of America’s Dialogues on Dress series. “I stand behind the term ‘visible mending’ because it conveys the general idea, but it can also sound a bit too trendy. Which is a problem, because trends end,” said Sekules. “An alternative way to frame it is perhaps ‘codesign.’ There are infinite ways to fix and alter something and add to it, to make it a collaborative process between you and the item. […] We need to innovate in style and design, and this is a design form. Fashion is fairly moribund and profit-driven, but mending can step in and disrupt that.”

  • Pratt Institute has been subcontracted by Aalto University to support their efforts on a project titled UTOPIZE project, Urban Transformation Through Open Participation and Inclusivity for Citizen Empowerment, funded under Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-02). The originating grant, led by the Comunidade Intermunicipal de Coimbra, UTOPIZE is a €3.9 million, 36-month project piloting UTOPIA Labs to co-design and co-govern public spaces in communities across Portugal, Italy, and Sweden. Pratt’s project lead, David Erdman, associate professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design (GA/LA/UD), has been subcontracted to co-develop workshops that use artificial intelligence and machine learning to examine climate threats and strategies for adaptation.

  • Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Jason Vigneri-Beane is participating in a panel on Designing with Intelligence: An AI Collection of Speculative Objects hosted by the Lawrence Technological University’s College of Architecture and Design. Experts will discuss AI’s impact on art and design, how it can be used in design work, and more.

  • Syllogism, an exhibition by Lisa Corinne Davis, BFA ’80, received a glowing review in Hyperallergic. “Davis has stretched the possibilities of geometric abstraction into a territory defined by digital systems, algorithms, flow charts, and diagrams—a visual realm that alludes to the measurement and prediction of our behavior.” The exhibition was also named one of the five New York shows to see this season by Hyperallergic. 

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