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Maryam Turkey, BID ’17, was featured in Architectural Digest’s One to Watch series. Turkey creates mirrors, lamps, and tables inspired by the earth structures of homes she grew up seeing in Baghdad as well as the towering architecture of Lower Manhattan: “I’ve really developed a relationship with these buildings.”

In his new book Coney Island Waterdance, Peter Kayafas, adjunct associate professor of photography, explores the New York summer days spent on the Brooklyn beach. The photographs were featured on LENSCRATCH with Kayafas stating: “These images are, for me, like passages from some primal, beautiful ballet—the energy, gesture, and emotion of the narrative rising and falling with the subjects on the waves.”

Students in the Conscious Home studio led by Meredith Erickson, visiting assistant professor of industrial design, explored thoughtful home decor, from a working tray for creative individuals to customizable music amplifiers. See more @PrattIndustrial.

Emiko McCoy, MPS Design Management ’10, is part of the Serena Williams Design Crew, a platform established by the tennis star to involve young designers from communities of color to design pieces for her Nike collection. As McCoy told FastCompany: “To see the greatest athlete of all time—someone who looks like me and has brought so many young girls into sport—inspired me to finally pursue my own crazy dream of becoming a Nike designer.”

The photography BFA and MFA students are on campus learning how to use large format cameras. See more @prattphotography.

In honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the award-winning film 9/12: From Chaos to Community by Jacki Ochs, adjunct professor-CCE of film and video, is streaming online for free through September 13. The documentary tells the story of a group of dedicated New Yorkers who volunteered at Ground Zero and formed unexpected bonds with first responders and each other.

This Wednesday, the statue of Robert E. Lee was removed from its pedestal in Richmond, Virginia. Back in 2019, Pratt students in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) explored how this statue and the surrounding avenue of Confederate monuments could be reimagined as community space. Revisit the story on their proposals for inclusivity in places of collective memory.

Nan Zhou, MID ’21, is exhibiting work in the The Lost Graduation Show – Class of 2020/21 at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Zhou designed a set of storytelling toys to help Chinese children living overseas learn Chinese characters. See more @thelostgraduationshow.

Matthew Leifheit, visiting assistant professor of photography, was recently interviewed on the photography podcast Nearest Truth. The discussion explored his boundary-pushing photography of the LGBTQ+ community as well as his work on the magazine Matte.

Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for “Those Flooded Basement Apartments are a Deadly Part of the Housing Crisis” on Curbed: “These units are a key part of the housing ecosystem in New York City. They’re not going to go away, so we need to test and pilot and figure out a pathway to make them safe.”