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Students and faculty are working together to get ready for Foundation Expanded on Myrtle Avenue Plaza, opening on September 24. @PrattFoundation shared their progress on student Shu Cheng Liu’s “Joy” that will be one of the public art installations.

Alanna Fields, MFA Photography ’19, created artwork for “The Dark Underside of Representations of Slavery” in the Atlantic, part of the publication’s “Inheritance” project about American history and Black life. The work is also on view in a presentation by the Atlantic at Photoville, now on view in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Students in the Design for Wellbeing studio led by Karol Murlak, professor of industrial design, explored how to support physical and mental health through products rooted in everyday existence. See examples of their projects @PrattIndustrial.

Brownstoner highlighted the Pratt Institute Archives Negatives Collection which has recently digitized materials taken between 1957 and 1973 on and around campus. A two-year project resulted in thousands of images being newly accessible online.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion published a Latinx and Undocumented Resource Guide with links to resources, articles, books, films, podcasts, and other materials for the Pratt community.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center for Community Development, joined the Brian Lehrer Show for a discussion on “How to Prevent More Deaths in NYC’s Basement Apartments”: “There is a need now to really reassess and look at what the safety measures are that can be done to keep these places safe during floods but the idea of not doing anything and just trying to keep people out, I think, is unrealistic because people live there, there’s just not enough housing in New York City.”

Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00, joined Whoopi Goldberg in a conversation on artistic freedom for Interview magazine: “I like to put Black women in the same positions as the subjects in Old Master paintings, because it’s about having that freedom to just be in the moment, to recline without doing work. Can’t we just recline?”

For Hispanic Heritage Month, the Latinx Student Alliance will be showcasing member’s work. See @PrattInstitute for a preview.

Jess deCourcy Hinds, MSLIS ’09, was featured in a segment of WNYC’s On the Media about bias in the library and the Dewey Decimal Classification System: “Books on Obama were in the 300s. They were separated from books on other presidents. And that was very disturbing to me. That was the beginning of changing Dewey, of rebelling against Dewey.”

The School of Architecture’s Interviews with Esteemed Faculty series featured a conversation with Meta Brunzema, adjunct associate professor in Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD), covering sustainability in the curriculum, community-based architecture, and working collaboratively: “I believe now that architecture has to be a collective, instead of an individual act.”