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Undergraduate Industrial Design
Pratt students weave ideas of sustainability and care into their Industrial Design capstone projects.
Graduate Industrial Design
Ignacio Urbina Polo has been appointed chair of industrial design in Pratt Institute’s School of Design. He assumes the role on July 1, 2022. Urbina is a distinguished industrial designer and a tenured professor at Pratt where he has taught…
School of Design
Using circuit boards, coding, and stories from fairy tales and fantasy, Pratt Institute undergraduate industrial design students recently engaged middle school students in robotics through STEM learning kits. One by Thyan Zou, BID ’22, references Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Ida’s…
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Mentorship can offer guidance, connections, and encouragement for students to go forward with their ambitions and visions for the future. Across Pratt Institute, students are taking leadership roles in creating and developing mentoring programs that support their needs, whether it’s…
The 2021 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards held virtually on August 12 honored the outstanding achievements and design leadership of three Pratt Institute alumni. Karen Stone, MID ’94 and adjunct associate professor-CCE of industrial design, received the 2021 Rowena Reed Kostellow…
The shortcomings of medical care and potential improvements for health services are the challenges investigated by Pratt Institute students in the medical prototypes class led by Jeffrey Kapec, adjunct professor of industrial design. Each student considers a product in health…
A year of the pandemic has transformed an unprecedented number of homes across the globe into studios, offices, and places of study, and the adaptations of remote work are likely here to stay in a more flexible professional and creative…
As president of the Pratt Community Engagement Board (CBoard), Ellen Ren, BID ’21, reaches beyond the gates of Pratt in service of our neighbors. CBoard leads service, civic engagement, and social justice events both on- and off-campus tailored to the…
Designs for the Portable Environments Studio by Thomas Chen, Leo Zhang, and Daniel Jones Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and questions about how to best design for health and safety remain, such as how to advance…
With the US presidential election just weeks away, members of the Pratt Institute community have been finding creative ways to get out the vote and rethink how elections can be more inclusive and accessible. From reimagining voting in an age…
