A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
Students in the Emerging Transport Studio led by Chamille Thayer, professor of industrial design, explored issues of transportation in emerging economies, with their projects including bikes for students in Ethiopia and low-cost travel alternatives for Afghanistan. See more @PrattIndustrial.
Annabelle Selldorf, BArch ’85, was selected to lead the restoration of London’s National Gallery: “Our work is quietly resonant. It is not an architecture, first and foremost, of a loud bang. I’d rather do less than more.”
Anashwara Mandalay, MFA Interior Design ’21, proposed a plan to activate spaces in New York City’s Garment District to foster collaboration and create awareness about the neighborhood’s culture of making. See more @PrattInstitute.
UPROSE and its partners, including Pratt’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), have been awarded a $600,000 Kresge Foundation, Climate Change, Health and Equity grant. The work will support the implementation of the community’s plan for the green reindustrialization of the Sunset Park waterfront. Read more.
Kayla Newnam, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’15, was featured by the Phoenix Independent for her project to paint a mural in all 50 states, beginning with her home state Arizona: “I just kicked off the project at Desert Ridge Marketplace in Phoenix and will be moving onto Colorado and Utah next. The goal for the project is to connect with different communities in a creative way.”
The School of Architecture Pi-FAB fabrication shops welcomed their latest addition: a large format pellet extruder robot that offers new possibilities for student model making. See more on @pi_fab.
The Pratt.edu story “How Pratt Students Met the Pandemic With Creativity and Reshaped Their Practices for the Future” was included in the Coronavirus Pandemic Creative Responses Archive organized by Cultural Programs of the National Academy Sciences. The archive is chronicling how creativity has flourished in a time that has demanded innovation.
Artnet featured the first solo museum show from Delano Dunn, BFA Communications Design ’01—Novelties now at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in Vermont—and how the food of his family has impacted his collage work, with Dunn sharing a recipe for gumbo made during his residency at Arts and Public Life in Chicago: “When I started the residency, I had just had some gumbo and was thinking about how important it was to me. I thought, ‘I’ll make a couple of works about gumbo—it will take me out of my comfort zone, because I don’t normally make work about food.’”
A 1910-11 church in Syracuse, New York, designed by Wallace Augustus Rayfield, one of Pratt’s first Black alumni and the second licensed Black American architect in the United States, was included in the recently announced African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Students in the Design for Emergency Studio led by Ignacio Urbina Polo, professor of industrial design, collaborated with students in Puerto Rico and Spain on projects including a handrail system for nursing homes and a flood risk communication system for urban communities. See more at @PrattIndustrial.
