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Research Accelerates

Throughout its history, Pratt Institute has been a fertile site for research—from the earliest drawing classes that helped students explore the visible world through their own hands, to technological study that shaped emerging manufacturing fields during the early 20th century,…

Prattfolio Asked Pratt Students: What Question Can You Not Stop Thinking About?

As last academic year came to a close, Prattfolio interviewed dozens of students around the Brooklyn campus to find out what questions were on their minds and what lines of inquiry they were pursuing in their work—from sculpture to architecture…

Critical and Visual Studies

Community Science: Taconic Fellows and Youth Activists Research the Needs of a Neighborhood

Bridging the expertise of Pratt students and faculty with communities beyond the gates begins with strong partnerships. For six years, the Taconic Fellowship, a program of the Pratt Center for Community Development, has…

Graduate Industrial Design

Building Bridges: Pratt Students Partner to Address the Experience of Undocumented People

How do designers design toward the right questions? In the case of students in Pratt’s industrial design studio Undocumented Design, zoning in on problems they could tackle—nested within a complex and far-reaching issue—meant connecting directly with…

The World in Young Eyes: Alumni Work Shines a Light on the Perspectives of Today’s Youth

Pratt graduates are confronting today’s most intractable challenges—from war and displacement, to poverty and neglect, to racial and gender-based hostility. Seen through the experiences of young people, these issues take on clarified resonance. Pratt alumna Maria Gabriele Baker,…