Sustainability

For Ian Montgomery, MS Package Design ’18, Mentorship in Sustainable Design Is a Two-Way Street

“Education isn’t just sitting in a classroom and reading or taking in knowledge and completing your assignments,” says Ian Montgomery, MS Package Design ’18, principal of the San Francisco-based design firm Guacamole Airplane. “It’s about relationships with people…

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…

Passive House, Climate Action

As a practice, New York-based architecture studio ChoShields has always been interested in environmental and social sustainability. But it wasn’t until founding principal In Cho, visiting assistant professor in the undergraduate architecture program at Pratt Institute, became concerned about mold…

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…

Graduate Industrial Design

Inflatable from Waste in Times Square

The 10th year of NYCxDesign, an annual festival showcasing design across New York City, was held from May 10 to 20. It included several events featuring the creativity of the Pratt community. Amid the bustle of crowds and costumed characters,…

From Climate Change to Social Justice, Earth Action Week Showcases How Pratt Engages with Sustainability Challenges

From a walk along a Brooklyn Superfund site to planting sidewalk gardens, the spring 2022 Pratt Earth Action Week (PEAW) brought together creative actions from across campus that are engaging with local, national, and international issues impacting the world.