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Next Wednesday, June 16, at 12:30 PM EDT, the “Diversity in Design 2.0 Panel Discussion” is highlighting the importance of diverse voices in design and raising up individual experiences and advice from leaders in the field of design. The virtual conversation includes panelists Ayse Birsel, MID ’89, co-founder of Birsel + Seck; Arem Duplessis, MS Communications Design ’96, senior director and group creative director at Apple; and Greg Gresham, creative principal at the Switzer Group and will be moderated by Assistant Dean of Design Camille Martin-Thomsen. The event is timed with Juneteenth.

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion has updated its LGBTQ+ resource page which includes a guide to LGBTQ+ articles, books, films, podcasts, and other materials for the Pratt community. Follow @prattcei for more as, along with @prattinstitute, @prattlibraries, and @prattinstitutearchives, they celebrate Pride all month.

Monday, June 14, at 10:30 AM EDT, Pratt is joining “The Designs of Our Worlds: A conversation between three design schools” organized by the Industrial Design Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (DIPUCP) and also featuring ENSCI Les Ateliers. The online event will include presentations by students from each school?including MID alumni Alejandro Moyano and Paul Gulla?as well as discussions with faculty members including Ignacio Urbina Polo, professor of industrial design.

Paper magazine included Pratt fashion 2021 alumni Matina Kulusic, Madelen Nyau, and Bettina Wagner in its feature on “The Best Looks from This Year’s Graduating Fashion Students.”

Adam Friedman, director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for the Refinery 29 article “Want To Support Asian Americans In Fashion? Start In The Garment District.”

Recordings of recent Pratt Research Talks are now available to watch online. Presented by the Office of Research and Strategic Partnerships, the series shares the incredible work people at Pratt do every day, with sessions including “The Desegregation Think Tank” with Jerrod Delaine, “Animal-Computer Interaction and the Case of the Disappearing Bees” with Nancy Smith, “Sustainability Tools for Cultural Heritage Preservation” with Sarah Nunberg, “Participatory Research & Eating Together Again” with Amanda Huynh, and “Sound Pedagogy: Sound Art and Sound Installation” with Daniel Bergman and Ilayda Altuntas.

Jason Stopa, visiting assistant professor of fine arts, led a discussion with fellow artists Josephine Halvorson, Wells Chandler, and Didier William for Momus on the recent re-emergence of figurative painting: “We reflected on the influence of the market; how identity issues dovetail with issues of control; the ease and speed of social media and its ability to antagonize or minimize complexity in form; and what it means to represent experience in a moment of image saturation.”

BK Reader highlighted the preservation work of Zulmilena Then, BArch ’09, who founded Preserving East New York in 2015 to involve residents of East New York and Cypress Hills in preservation: “Our mission is to preserve and protect the unique spaces in the neighborhood that are connected to our history. We want to preserve the culture and social life of the neighborhood.”