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Illuminating a History of Action

An interdisciplinary research initiative brings visibility to the Pratt community’s historical work toward equity, access, and just futures.

Start Here

Pratt faculty, students, and alumni are thinking, researching, and creating toward a transformed world

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Faculty Books of 2022

This year, publishers released more than 30 diverse, innovative works of creativity, scholarship, and research authored, edited, and featuring contributions by Pratt Institute faculty. Artists…
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Rematerializing a Thriving Black Commons

Invisible Realities of Future-Past, the degree project of Cierra Francillon and Caleb-Joshua Spring, both BArch ’22, won the Pratt Institute School of Architecture Degree Project…
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Perspective: With Cheryl D. Miller, MS Communications Design ’85

“Cheryl D. Miller, president of Cheryl D. Miller Design, had no idea that her 1987 Print magazine article, ‘Black Designers: Missing in Action,’ would catapult…
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Prism of Perspective

In moments of cultural change, when the hard work of shifting perspectives is essential to benevolent forms of human evolution, leaders who have long prepared…
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Crit: Pits, Peels, and Packaging

Two decades ago, the influential design text Cradle to Cradle asked how we as a species could leave a footprint “to delight in, not lament,”…
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Class Notes

Prattfolio Class Notes highlights Pratt alumni news and updates on work and life. Read on for the Fall 2022 issue’s dispatches, and see below for…
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Fall 2022

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Summer 2021

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Spring/Summer 2020
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