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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

  • Adam Friedman​​, chief strategy officer of research and strategic partnerships, was interviewed for the City & State article “New York City’s uphill battle to save manufacturing”: “People need heat pumps, people need probably dry wells to handle the downpours, people need a whole bunch of existing technology … If we can channel more of that to be produced in the city, I think that there’s some real job creation opportunities there.”

  • Leslie, a Non-Fiction II project by Lisa Dodell, BFA Film ’25, is showing at DOC NYC. It will be playing at the Angelica on November 21.

  • Rebekah Morris-Gonzalez, director of climate initiatives at the Pratt Center, wrote a piece for City Limits about New York’s $5 billion climate opportunity. “With $5 billion at our disposal and the climate and housing crises looming, we can’t afford to continue the energy efficiency redlining that is currently built into the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) incentive design,” she writes. “It’s time to address long-standing inequities and make investments that will deliver clean energy technology to LMI communities hardest hit by historical disinvestments and the climate crisis.”

  • An exhibition by William Kim, MFA Fine Arts ’25, was featured as a “Must See” in Artforum.

  • Assistant Professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies Jan Dutkiewicz wrote an article for Vox about PETA. “Its controversial tactics are not above critique,” writes Dutkiewicz. “But the key to PETA’s success has been its very refusal to be well-behaved, forcing us to look at what we might rather ignore: humanity’s mass exploitation of the animal world.”