Pratt has been recognized as a Fulbright Top Producing Institute for 2024–2025, marking the sixth consecutive year that it has ranked in the top ten of four-year special-focus institutions.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Associate Professor of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Founding Director of the Center for Climate Adaptation David Erdman gave a lecture titled “Archipelagic Infrastructures; a planetary perspective” for the spring 2025 public lecture series The Good Life, organized by architecture faculty at the University of Hong Kong and the US Consulate in Hong Kong.
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Jaye Moon, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’94, and former Visiting Assistant Professor of Arts and Cultural Management Laurie Cumbo will be honored at the 2025 NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit, celebrating their induction into the NYFA Hall of Fame.
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WWD featured the news that Nicholas Daley will be honored with this year’s Pratt Fashion Visionary Award at the “2025 Pratt Shows: Fashion” event on May 16. Fashion Chair Lisa Z. Morgan acknowledged Daley’s “dedication to storytelling through design, commitment to responsible practices and ability to reimagine cultural narratives within contemporary fashion.”
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice Carlos Motta’s mid-career retrospective exhibition Pleas of Resistance is running at MACBA. The exhibition covers over 25 years of work, exploring “the magnitude of Motta’s artistic research and its implacable rigor in relation to the archive, interrogating its violence, its silencing and its desires.”
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Lady Gaga wore a custom hat designed by Sarah Sokol, BFA Interior Design ’11, during her performance at the 2025 Super Bowl.
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Mylo Butler, BFA Film ’21, shot a motion cover for Ebony Magazine.
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Yimeng Zhang, MS Packaging, Identities, and Systems Design ’25, was interviewed in Canvas Rebel. “Many of my ideas come in flashes of inspiration—sometimes within a day or two—but the real challenge lies in prototyping, refining, and modifying them repeatedly. The final product must be visually compelling, practical, and, most importantly, cost-effective.”
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Assistant Professor in the School of Information Shruthi Chivukula published a paper with colleagues “Tracing the History and Evolution of Dark Patterns on Twitter from 2010–2021” in ACM Transactions on Social Computing.
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Tomokazu Matsuyama, MFA Communications Design ’04, who is exhibiting at LA Frieze Week, was profiled in Observer. “Matsuyama’s densely layered compositions capture the full complexity of today’s cultural and aesthetic landscape, integrating a wide spectrum of visual languages,” writes Elisa Carollo. “His work freely merges globally pervasive elements of American consumer culture with sophisticated references to Japanese prints and centuries-old artistic traditions, alongside nods to key moments in art history.”
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Pratt Names Courtney Knapp New Chair of the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
From Pratt Institute News
An award-winning scholar and professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment’s Urban and Community Planning program, Knapp will assume the role on July 1, 2025, succeeding Eve Baron, who is stepping down to join the full-time faculty.