Illuminating a History of Action
An interdisciplinary research initiative brings visibility to the Pratt community’s historical work toward equity, access, and just futures.
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Pratt faculty, students, and alumni are thinking, researching, and creating toward a transformed world

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,”…

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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In Conversation with the President: From a Moment of Disruption, Building with Optimism
Moving through this transformational time, how we engage with the world is significant to how the future takes shape. At Pratt, our students and graduates… -
Practice: From Swale Lab on Governors Island, with Mary Mattingly, Fine Arts Civic Engagement Fellow
On a sundrenched Saturday in July, the windows and doors of Building 11 at Governors Island’s Nolan Park were flung open, rooms humming with activity.… -
New and Noteworthy Fall 2022
Mickalene Thomas, with texts by Roxane Gay and Kellie Jones (Phaidon)Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00 The first monograph on Mickalene Thomas, created in collaboration… -
Spotlight: Best Recipe from the 2085 New York Paw Paw Festival
For residents of New York City decades from now, technology may permeate daily life, engineering even the animals and plants that dwell alongside them, but…