Fay Ran, MFA’25 In Transit Temporary Community In Transit re-imagines CHARAS’s legacy through a design lens, balancing personal growth and communal renewal. Drawing from Puerto Rican informal living patterns, it proposes adaptive, flexible interiors that offer low-income youth transitional spaces, fostering self-identity and belonging. Thesis advisor: Frederic Levrat #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Moon Jung Choi, BFA’25 Color Equality renovates a pavilion in Chinatown’s Columbus Park into a space where survivors of anti-Asian hate crimes can heal. Spaces to therapeutically reenact and re-script trauma, share emotions with other survivors, and electronically monitor sites of previous attacks are designed to restore the agency taken during an attack. Thesis advisor: Alexander Schweder #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Ruoyan Wang, MFA’25 Hybrid Workspace Design for Enhanced Collaboration Integrating Digital Twins, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality in an AI and IoT Research Institute. This thesis explores creating a hybrid workspace that merges physical and virtual environments, utilizing digital twins, AR, and VR to support real-time interaction, collaboration, and seamless engagement between on-site and remote users. The design prioritizes flexibility, comfort, and sensory engagement, incorporating biophilic elements like green zones and adaptive lighting for well-being and productivity. Thesis advisor: Stefanie Werner #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Wenxuan (Primrose) Zhang, BFA’25 Rural Revitalization: ReForm, ReUse, ReImagine This thesis revitalizes Dongtai Village through spatial interventions that reconnect interior spaces to the Great Wall through adaptive reuse strategies. Addressing the challenges of rural revitalization, this project re-imagines the village’s architectural language to support contemporary rural life, ensuring the community will evolve and sustain itself rather than remaining a preserved relic. Thesis advisor: Sarah Lippmann #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Zixu Wang, MFA’25 Wired Encounter A study of elastic connection between people and space This thesis explores perception of spatial volume typically characterized by planes, surfaces, and containment, as deconstructed lines. The proposal analyzes experiential notions of elastic, dynamic and responsive boundary, zone, and program, which then contribute to alternative behavioral, ergonomic, contextual and relational connectivity. Thesis advisor: Nina Freedman #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Raksha Sanikam, MFA’25 The Storyteller: Where space becomes a narrative of Indian craft This thesis explores how immersive storytelling in retail and exhibition design fosters deeper engagement with craft. By reinterpreting Indian spatial elements, it proposes a journey that educates and prepositions the grandeur of Indian craftsmanship within the multicultural context of New York. Thesis advisor: Ji Young Kim #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Yichi Zhang, BFA’25 Frame: Information Cocoon This thesis uses critical design to visualize the information cocoon, an issue in the digital age. By creating an experiential trap, it draws people in to reveal the problem’s depth, encouraging them to reflect and use their own perspective (frame) to better understand and filter information. Thesis advisor: Melissa Cicetti #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Juan Miguel Rodriguez, MFA’25 The Architecture of Memory and Transformation: Revealing layers of human experience and intervention This thesis investigates how textural preservation, material contrast, and spatial choreography can re-frame architectural ruins into immersive spaces of sensory and cultural reflection. Through minimalist insertions, transparency, and tactile engagement, the design invites embodied movement and visual exploration - evoking a temporal dialogue with memory, decay, and impermanence. Thesis advisor: Stefanie Werner #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookmfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod

Haolan (Elvis) Zhang, BFA’25 Mycoo transforms a sewage processing tank in Gowanus’s Newton Creek into a zoo or aquarium for fungi. Designed to promote reflection on the complexity of people’s relationship with fungi, interior spaces allow visitors to interact with species that give humans life, cause their death, or propose new understandings of beauty. Thesis advisor: Alexander Schweder #prattint2025book #prattint2025bookbfa #pratt_sod #prattshows2025 #PrattGrad25 @prattinstitute @pratt_sod