Shuyu Qin, MFA’25 Re-framing Sacred and Profane: Interior Design Strategies for Dignified In-habitation By means of an analysis of the cognition of sacred interiors, design strategies can be developed to elevate profane interiors and establish a new baseline for dignified in-habitation of all spaces. Thesis advisor: Edwin Zawadzki #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Tong Zhao, MFA’25 Projected Shadow Explores how light and shadow influence our senses and deepen emotional connections to space. Through the design of a library and meditation area, it fosters mindfulness and reflection. The project also investigates how shifting perspectives of light and shadow create visual anomalies, challenging perceptions of depth and form. Thesis advisor: Frederic Levrat #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Charis (Jian Nuo) Tang, MFA’25 Unpacking Memories: Suitcase Circuit in Capsule Journeys A Scattered City Guide Via the context of a travel journey, this thesis maps the archival, layered narrative of memory; a non-chronological, compressed collage of sensory experiences, grafted into the present. Scattered across the city, memorial capsules allow visitors to collect tangible site-specific artifacts, capturing the ephemeral essence of experience. Thesis advisor: Nina Freedman #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Ying-Ching (Jin) Liao, BFA’25 Moving Night Market proposes that by installing platform safety farriers at the Court Square and Flushing stations on New York's 7 line, an opportunity to integrate small food stands between doors. Operated by local businesses, these stalls give riders a sample of the cultural experience available in the surrounding neighborhood. Thesis advisor: Alexander Schweder @jinliaoo #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Audrey Li, BFA’25 Tactile Futures: Craft, Sustainability, and the Afterlife of Marine Plastics This project investigates the potential of marine plastic recycling through creative reuse and artistic expression, transforming environmental waste into handcrafted works. The collage visually constructs the spatial narrative of the interior, where distinct textures and forms symbolize different types of plastic, emphasizing their material specificity and aesthetic possibilities. Collectively, these spatial moments communicate the project’s central ambition: to bridge sustainability, craftsmanship, and public engagement through the design of immersive, interactive environments. Thesis advisor: Rachel Paupeck #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Sara Gelber, BFA’25 Wrapping Up creates a space for the possibility of interpersonal exchange between self-sequestered Jewish and Caribbean women in Crown Heights. Building activities from shared cultural practices of head wrapping, fabrics here wrap both bodies and interiors in ways that suggest understanding might emerge from mutual experiences of gender. Thesis advisor: Alexander Schweder #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Qiuyi Yang, BFA’25 Sonic Cruise This thesis explores sound artists and their mobile creative processes. Four buses support music production, public interaction, and performance, forming a dynamic system of movement and collaboration. Real-time sensory feedback between sound, light, people, and space transforms mobility into both medium and message. Thesis advisor: Sarah Lippmann @qyi_qiuyi #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Xiaotong (Amy) He, BFA’25 The Other Place: An Amusement Park for Temporary Escape and Identity Release Moving through layered arcades and spaces articulated by shifting light and shadow, visitors embark on an immersive journey of temporary escape and the unbinding of identity. Castle Williams - a historic structure bearing witness to the passage of time - is re-imagined as an otherworldly amusement park that embodies themes of freedom and healing. Within this transformed environment, the relationship between self and world is gently reconstituted, offering visitors a renewed sense of orientation, agency, and possibility. Thesis advisor: Rachel Paupeck @xiaohe_amy #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Yirou Hong, MFA’25 Porous Living -A new typology of co-living This thesis investigates a co-living model driven by porous boundaries, focusing on the integration of privacy gradients and spatial flexibility. By experimenting with threshold strategies and adaptive spatial configurations, it aims to propose a co-living prototype within a historic industrial context, fostering a dynamic balance between privacy and flexibility in design. Thesis advisor: Ji Young Kim #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod