Social Justice Archives

A black and white photograph of a bald man in a black turtleneck sitting behind a microphone. To his left is a piano holding splayed out sheet music.

Jazz Histories Reveal “Wisdom, Expertise, and Pure Genius”

Jazz historian Cisco Bradley’s new podcast shares stories from the form’s vanguard artists.

A spread from the book HERE: Where the Black Designers Are, featuring works of graphic design, including a book jacket for a novel titled “THE WILD WILD WEST” and record jackets for artists including Tyone Davis and Rune Gustafsson, among other illustrations.

Celebrating Black Graphic Designers in a Panoramic New Book

With 50 years of experience in design and scholarship, Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller, MS Communications Design ’85, spotlights the long history of Black creativity in design.

Front view of brick rowhouses with unique facade elements, window grates, and fences of different metals and designs

Spaces for Us to Live

Experts in Architecture and Development Examine Culture, Care, History, and Advocacy in Housing for Black Communities

Pratt President Frances Bronet and Dean Quilian Riano talking to one another in a naturally lit hallway in Pratt’s Higgins Hall

In Conversation with the President: Living Spaces

From my years teaching architecture, one studio in particular stays with me to this day. It focused on a concept for a multiunit living space that crossed generations and family makeups with the flexibility to accommodate inhabitants’ changing needs and…

Smiling young people and Pratt faculty and staff pose with Pratt President Frances Bronet in a brightly lit industrial loft space.

Letter from the President: Foundations for Creating the Future

Charles Pratt, just over a year after establishing Pratt Institute, delivered these words to some of our institution’s earliest students. In his address, he emphasized the progressive values that influenced him as he launched this grand project—satisfaction in work, the…

Group of students approaches white colonial house in tree-filled lot

Studio: Collaborative Futures at Lefferts Historic House

Students of City and Regional Planning, Historic Preservation, and Urban Placemaking and Management worked with Prospect Park Alliance to reconsider a Brooklyn historic site as a space for community care, empowerment, and healing.

A black and white photograph of three young boys in a classroom, all wearing shirts with the text “PRATT YOUTH SKILLS DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT” printed on the left chest, displaying their model rockets and accompanying launchers to the picture's photographer on a table.

Illuminating a History of Action

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

How Iranians in New York Are Helping the Protests Abroad.

Everything You Need to Know About the FABRIC Act, the First Federal Fashion Bill

Pratt Center

Pratt and Partners Awarded $1.9M in Federal Funds for Affordable Small Home Sustainability

The Pratt Center for Community Development and community partners Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, IMPACCT Brooklyn, and Kinetic Communities Consulting have been selected to receive $1,942,500 for an Affordable Small Home Sustainability (ASHS) Initiative as part of the federal government…