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GCPE Events

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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

  1. Snack Chat with Sarah Sher – Historic Maritime Buildings as Vital Public Spaces: The Adaptive Reuse of NYC’s Pier 57

    November 14, 2024 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

    Online and HH211 (and zoom)

    Image of Pier 57

  2. Public Realm Design Strategies with Marissa Garcia (UPM ’22) & Tara Green of OJB Landscape Architects

    November 15, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

    Online and Higgins Hall 211

    An evening aerial view of Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas, with a large crowd gathered on the lawn, enjoying an outdoor event. The cityscape features modern high-rise buildings illuminated by lights, including a vibrant red building and structures with colorful lighting effects. Trees line the park, and cars fill the adjacent streets, contributing to the lively urban atmosphere.

  3. GCPE Graduate Admissions Info Session (1 on 1’s)

    November 21, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    GCPE student presenting their studio work.

  4. GCPE Graduate Admissions Info Session

    February 18, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    Students creating urban landscapes using found materials and a

  5. Pratt Institute’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony

    May 20, 2025 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    Radio City Music Hall

Past Events

  1. GCPE Graduate Admissions Info Session

    November 12, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Three students walking through tall grasses at a remediated environmental site.

  2. Book Talk – Creative Instigation: The Art and Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement

    November 11, 2024 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

    ARC E-02 TEC Lecture Hall

    Cover of the book

  3. Event Series with Artist, Architect, & Urban Planner Sabine Malebranche

    November 7 – November 9, 2024 5:30 PM – 2:00 PM

    Multiple locations

    Close-up portrait of Sabine Malebranche, smiling warmly. She has curly hair with a bandana tied around her head, and a green leafy background is visible behind her.

  4. Pratt Earth Action Week: Delta Cities Deep Dive – Participatory Science & Education on the Water

    November 7, 2024 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
    Graphic promoting the Pratt Institute's event

  5. Preservation in a Time of Precarity: Intersecting Indigenous Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence

    October 29, 2024 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Online and Pratt Manhattan Campus

    Forensic Architecture / Forensis. Guided by ‘inherited’ oral testimonies, the settlement of ||Nâ ‡ gâs (Hornkranz) is reconstructed house by house using Unreal Engine.

  6. Franklin Kirimi: Rivers + People – Nature-Based Resilience and Co-Production With Informal East African Communities

    October 16, 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

    Virtual/Zoom

    Event poster titled

  7. GCPE Graduate Admissions Info Session

    October 10, 2024 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Higgins Hall, Pratt Brooklyn Campus

    GCPE student presenting their thesis research

  8. Snack Chat with Mei Ling Chua – Visceral Knowing & Embodied Aesthetics

    October 3, 2024 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

    Online and HH211 ( and zoom)

    Event flyer artwork by Mei Ling Chua titled

  9. Climate Week NYC: Environmental Justice Through Block By Block Microclimates In North Brooklyn

    September 28, 2024 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn (exact tour route TBA)

  10. GCPE at Climate Week NYC: Environmental Justice Through Block By Block Microclimates In North

    September 28, 2024 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

    Williamsburg, Brooklyn (tour route TBA)

  11. Wellbeing Through Climate Adaptation

    September 24, 2024 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

    Online and Pratt Manhattan, 144 14th Street, room 201

    Event flyer titled

  12. SEP 24 – GCPE at Climate Week NYC: Wellbeing Through Climate Adaptation

    September 24, 2024 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

    Online and Zoom + Pratt Manhattan Campus, 144 West 14th Street, 10011, NYC

  13. Climate Week NYC: Global and Local Perspectives on a Just Energy Transition

    September 23, 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

  14. SEP 23 – GCPE at Climate Week NYC: Global and Local Perspectives on a Just Energy Transition

    September 23, 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

  15. GCPE Graduate Admissions Info Session

    September 12, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Two students completing a worksheet together for the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment.

  16. GCPE Advanced Certificate Info Session

    September 10, 2024 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
    GCPE student sharing sketches made during an Historic Preservation class.

  17. GCPE Student Orientation and networking

    August 23, 2024 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Engineering Building, room 307

  18. PlacemakingUS: Public Realm Roundtable

    June 13 – June 16, 2024 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

    Online and Pratt Institute (Higgins Hall) + NYC locations

    group photo of placemaking practitioners together on a tour of public space in New York City

  19. 2024 Commencement Ceremony

    May 15, 2024 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    Radio City Music Hall

    graphic for commencment 2024

  20. Friends and Family Reception

    May 14, 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Lawn

  21. Awards Convocation

    May 14, 2024 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Emmanuel Baptist Church

  22. Spring 2024 GCPE Super Thursday Semester Share

    May 2, 2024 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    Online and Higgins Hall Auditorium

    A digital collage created by students in GCPE's Spring 2024 studio research. It shows a big-screened auditorium in a public space along a path, with several people walking, cycling, and standing for a picture. The path disappears into some trees, with the background of a city's harbour.

  23. Exhibition Opening of “Down to Earth: Indigenous Building Technologies”

    April 30 – May 7, 2024 7:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Higgins Hall, Leo J. Kuhn Lobby Gallery

    Event Flyer with images of people working with green walls and construction with soil.4

  24. PAINTING, PLANTING AND PESTO: Dye Garden Open House with Field Meridians Nature School

    April 27, 2024 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Textile Dye Garden in Cannoneer Courtyard

    Event poster titled

  25. Public Space Challenges Symposium & Workshop

    April 25 – April 27, 2024 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

    Pratt Institute, School of Architecture, Higgins Hall

    Event poster titled

  26. GCPE 2024 Thesis / Capstone / DPC Presentations

    April 19 – May 3, 2024 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Online and Virtual, Hybrid, and In Person at several locations

    student hunched in front of a board with information on research, student wearing hat and denim shirt

  27. GCPE Admissions Info Session

    April 11, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Students looking over schematics

  28. Neighborhood Clean Up

    April 6, 2024 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

    Starting at the Rose Garden, travelling the neighborhood throughout the event.

    Image of a brooklyn neighbourhood, with the title

  29. Fungi Fabrication

    April 4, 2024 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

    The workshop will be hosted in the Pratt Sustainability Center (Engineering Building, Room 001)

    image fo a fungus, with the title

  30. Pratt BioBlitz 2024

    April 1 – April 5, 2024 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM

    ARC LL E-09

    Poster titled

  31. Pratt Earth Action Week

    April 1 – April 6, 2024 All Day

    Pratt Institute

    flyer for event that reads

  32. ARCHIVAL ACTIVISM disruptive dialogue on decolonizing the canon

    March 28, 2024 6:15 PM – 8:00 PM

    Pratt Studios 200 Gallery

    graphic with event description

  33. GCPE Snack Chat! Yuliya Dzyuban

    March 27, 2024 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

    Higgins Hall 406B

    photo of Yulia Dzyuban, standing in forest, with foilage and trees in background, subject in foreground, smiling, wearing collared dress shirt

  34. Place Dialogues Volume IV Release Party

    March 26, 2024 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Higgins Hall 1st floor lobby

    graphic of the cover for Place Dialogues IV, with a paper bag background, and event info in foreground

  35. GCPE Accepted Students Day

    March 21, 2024 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM

    Online and Higgins Hall

    photo of students gathering in Higgins Hall for an info session

  36. Guest Lecture: Francesc Magrinyà, Barcelona Resilience & The “Superblocks” Evolution Concept

    March 20, 2024 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    ARC E-13

    headshot of Francesc Magrinyà Torner

  37. Engaging Communities Pedagogy and Practice Symposium

    February 29, 2024 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    Higgins Hall Auditorium 61 St James Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238

    Image of a crowd holding their fist up.

  38. Lessons from Havana: Documenting the “Architecture of Necessity”

    February 23, 2024 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
    Event flyer titled

  39. CONNECTING THE DOTS: SUSTAINABILITY, DESIGN AND COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE PET LAMP AND PLASTIC RIVERS PROJECTS

    February 20, 2024 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Higgins Hall Auditorium

    Event poster titled

  40. Spring Career Day

    February 9, 2024 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    ARC

    Spring Career Day Poster, Friday, February 9th from 2pm-5pm in the ARC. 100 Companies, 100 Opportunities. Images shows pictures of artist tools such as paint brushes, cameras, laptops, rulers, hammer, scissors

  41. Nikki Lindt merges painting and ecological art

    February 1, 2024 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

    Maine 503

    students making a sound recording on Pratt's campus using a professional microphone.

  42. Super Saturday Semester Share

    December 16, 2023 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM

    Online and ENG 307 + zoom

  43. Screening & Q/A: HOW TO with John Wilson – in person!

    December 8, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Kathering L. McKenna Screening Room

    promotional image of the HBO show

  44. Faculty Spotlight: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Theory and Practice

    December 1, 2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

  45. GCPE Student Thesis/Capstone/DPC Presentations

    November 27 – December 12, 2023 4:30 PM – 9:00 PM
    schedule of thesis presentations

  46. IEW: Study Abroad Fair

    November 14 – November 16, 2023 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM

    Student union

    List of all summer programs with dates and location.

  47. GCPE Admissions Info Session (virtual + application Q&A)

    November 14, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Member of the Pratt community, speaking to a group of students on a stoop

  48. Snack Chats! The Price of Beauty – Yvette Vasourkova (Fulbright Visiting Scholar)

    November 7, 2023 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Higgins Hall, 406B

    A portrait photograph of Yvette Vasourkova.

  49. Film Screening + Panel: Rabble Rousers

    November 3, 2023 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

    Higgins Hall Auditorium

    A black and white image of a protest, where one of the large banners read the phrase

  50. Repurposing Post-Apartheid Architectures: Discursive Formations and Practices of Representation in Johannesburg

    October 30, 2023 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library (Brooklyn campus)

    Poster for the event. There is a white background with a picture of each speaker and event information on top. There are violet details throughout.

  51. Coney Island Creek Park Beach Cleanup

    October 28, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Coney Island Creek Park Shore

    Image of the event poster, with a trashed beach as the backdrop.

  52. Community Gardens as Critical Environmental Areas

    October 27, 2023 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Higgins Hall North 406B

    An image of the event poster. As the backdrop image, it has a garden in the foreground, with many flowering plants. Behind the garden are several houses.

  53. Pratt Trail Network – Hike to Tour Brooklyn Grange Farm

    October 27, 2023 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM

    Meet in front of the Engineering Building

    Image of the event poster, the backdrop being a picture of the Grange farm with a view of the manhattan skyline in the back.

  54. Re-Cycling Pratt Public Sphere

    October 27, 2023 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

    The Rose Garden

    Image of the event poster, with the background as rocky shore-side cliffs during sunset

  55. Shaping the 21st Century: MPS Design Management and MPS Arts and Cultural Management Integrated Capstone Discover&Define Mid-Review

    October 27, 2023 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM

    Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus 7th Floor Lobby

    Image of the event poster, where the background is of fall foliage trees with mountains in the far back.

  56. Making Architecture — the work of John McAslan + Partners

    October 26, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238

    image of the event poster, with a black and white image of an architectural structure as the backdrop.

  57. Language Plants

    October 26, 2023 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM

    The Dye Garden Cannoneer Courtyard

    Event poster with the background image of the paper making mould with green solution in it.

  58. “CULTIVATIONS: Ritual, Discussion and Action for a Livable Future.”

    October 26, 2023 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    South Hall Rm 001, Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus

  59. Trans-Awareness Week Clothing Swap

    October 26, 2023 9:30 AM – 9:00 PM

    Student Union

    flyer for event

  60. Creative Enterprise Leadership Program Award-Winning Project Webinar

    October 25, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
    Event poster, with the background image of lush green mountains with a waterfall in the middle.

  61. Plant Propagation Workshop

    October 25, 2023 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    Foundations Lab, Main 401

    Event poster with a potted aloe vera plant, and 2 other smaller potted plants in the backdrop.

  62. Alaska Indigenous Quinhagak Community Resilience Thinking Workshop

    October 25, 2023 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Online and Alumni Reading Room

    Event poster, with the background image of the alaskan snowcapped mountains.

  63. Contemporary Art and Ecological Sustainability

    October 25, 2023 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Alumni Reading Room, Pratt’s Brooklyn Campus

    Event poster with the backdrop of a man working on a wall covered in lots of small paintings

  64. Non-Binary Ecologies and Heritage

    October 25, 2023 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

    Higgins Lobby Gallery

    Image of the event poster, with the backdrop as the backyard house surrounded by lots of trees, a of volunteers sitting in the chair in the yard.

  65. Roundtable: Non-Binary Ecologies and Hertiage

    October 25, 2023 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

    Higgins Hall, 1st floor lobby

    A collage of 3 images, one of the moderator and the other two of the event speakers.

  66. Embodied Practices: Difficult Conversations

    October 25, 2023 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

  67. Environmental Social Governance (ESG) framework in the Built Environment

    October 24, 2023 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
    The image of the event poster. the backdrop is of a building with all floors having garden terraces.

  68. EcoMark: Craft Your Own Recycled Paper Bookmark

    October 24, 2023 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

    Student Union

    Image of the event poster. The background is a stack of textbooks, with some post-its sticking out of each book.

  69. Pop-Up Student Exhibition: How To Water

    October 24 – October 25, 2023 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM

    Higgins Hall, 1st floor lobby

    A person tending to an aquaculture setup on a body of water.

  70. PechaKucha Night with COMD

    October 23, 2023 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

    Online and ARC E-02

    Event poster with background as a a rock cliff by the ocean at sunset

  71. Style over SHEIN: Choosing Memories Over Materialism

    October 23, 2023 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

    Engineering, Room 001

    Image of the event poster, with the background as a warehouse filled with textile waste.

  72. Sustainability is a Racial Justice Issue

    October 23, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

    Online and Alumni Reading Room

  73. Pratt Earth Action Week

    October 23 – October 29, 2023 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    Online and Multiple locations

    Image of the event poster, featuring green trees in the backdrop, with event information on the forefront.

  74. Pratt Earth Action Week – Fall 2023

    October 23 – October 29, 2023 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM

    Online and Various Locations

    A group of people posing for the photo on the deck of the Coney Island Beach. There are a few trash bags in front of them, possibly implying that they were cleaning up the beach.

  75. GCPE Admissions Info Session (in-person + tour + studio visit)

    October 19, 2023 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Higgins Hall

    people using building blocks, at a table, two sets of hands working

  76. Learning with the RETI Center and the Gowanus Canal

    October 19, 2023 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    RETI Center at 701 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, NY

  77. Architecture & Design Film Festival

    October 12, 2023 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM

    Village East by Angelika -189 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003

    Poster for ADFF: New York. There is an abstract orange background, with the title on top and a collage of images and drawings.

  78. Snack Chats! The Price of Beauty: Yvette Vasourkova (Visiting Fulbright Scholar)

    October 12, 2023 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

    Higgins Hall 406B

    Poster for the Snack Chats event put on by the school of architecture. The events description and title are place on an orange background with a white outline.

  79. Highlights from the 2023 Material Lab Prize

    October 5 – October 18, 2023 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM

    Juliana Curran Design Center Gallery, Steuben Hall #200

    An abstract design poster with the text

  80. Book Talk: Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

    September 29, 2023 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

    ENG 307, Pratt Brooklyn

    Poster for Disrupting D.C

  81. IA: Island(ing) Adaptations

    September 22, 2023 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

    The Admiral’s House; Governors Island
    Ferry Instructions HERE

    An infographic that lists the following items: Canadian Arctic, Archipelago, 36563 islands; Norwegian Archipelago, 24000 islands; Mediterranean Basin, 512M pop. (approx.); Japanese Archipelago, 104M pop. (approx.); Caribbean Basin, 44.4M pop. (approx.); Maldives Islands, .5M pop (approx.); Malay Archipelago, 380M pop. (approx.); Patagonian Archipelagoes 43471 islands. The graphic includes other information about the event which is also included on the event listing.

  82. GCPE Admissions Info Session (virtual)

    September 12, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    a large group of people, on a red carpet, in front of an event, aerial or crane shot

  83. PIPSA Student Group Kickoff & Happy Hour

    September 8, 2023 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

    Doris, 1088 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA

    Poster for the Pratt PIPSA happy hour event on September 8th. This information is typed on top of a yellow background.

  84. “Adaptation(s)” Exhibition(s)

    September 1 – October 29, 2023 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

    Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays ONLY
    Governor’s Island

    A poster for the Adaptation(s) exhibitions. There is content on the poster which is also included in the event description.

  85. GCPE Super Saturday Semester Share

    May 6, 2023 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM

    Online and ENG 307

  86. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, DPC Presentations

    May 1, 2023 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

  87. April is Fulbright Month

    April 1 – April 25, 2023 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

  88. Lake Pigments and Natural Dyes workshop

    March 30, 2023 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

    Foundations Lab

  89. Pratt Earth Action Week

    March 27 – April 2, 2023 9:00 PM – 6:00 PM

    Multiple Locations

  90. Graduate Admissions Info Session

    March 9, 2023 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
    Banner for a graduate admissions info sessions on Thursday March 9.

  91. All Campus Spring Career Day 2023

    March 3, 2023 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Online and ARC Upper Level

  92. Building with Mycelium

    March 2, 2023 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

    Pratt Public Sphere: Dome near Dekalb

  93. Investing in Black Brooklyn: From Colonization to Gentrification in District 35

    February 27, 2023 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

    Higgins Hall, Pratt School of Architecture

  94. Paper Making

    February 23, 2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

    Pratt Public Sphere: Geodesic Dome near Dekalb

  95. What Makes An Exhibition Design Stand Out: The Role Of The Designer

    January 18, 2023 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    A 3d rendering of a future city street with a large globe with words project in the outside in the center of the image

  96. Making Sustainability Central in Design–Pratt SCPS Info Session

    January 13, 2023 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

  97. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING – Thesis 2

    December 13, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

  98. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS Capstone

    December 9, 2022 5:00 PM – 6:40 PM

  99. GCPE Open House

    December 7, 2022 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

  100. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING – Thesis 2

    December 6, 2022 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

  101. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: URBAN PLACEMAKING AND MANAGEMENT

    December 5, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

  102. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: HISTORIC PRESERVATION

    November 30, 2022 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

  103. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING – Thesis 1

    November 29, 2022 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

  104. GCPE Thesis, Capstone, and DPC Presentations: URBAN PLACEMAKING AND MANAGEMENT

    November 28, 2022 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

  105. Design Workshop with Greg Lindquist and Willis Elkins

    November 18, 2022 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

    Pratt Institute’s Foundations Lab, 4th floor of 406 Main, Brooklyn campus

  106. Historic Preservation, MS Information Session

    November 2, 2022 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM