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Raymond Figueroa Jr., visiting instructor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) and president of the New York City Community Garden Coalition, was interviewed for The New York Times article “Vital Places of Refuge in the Bronx, Community Gardens Gain Recognition.” The story describes how communities throughout NYC are adapting to climate change with the help of community gardens.

MoMA PS1 in Long Island City has revived its summer Warm Up series featuring a new stage designed by Raque Ford, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’10.

A Tortoise’s Year of Fate by Yi Xiong, BFA Film ’22, will have its world premiere at this year’s Locarno Film Festival, held from August 2 to 12 in Locarno, Switzerland. The short film, which depicts the journey of a factory worker longing for hope, has been selected for the Pardi di domani section of the festival. This section showcases emerging talent and promising works in the world of cinema. This short film was originally created as Xiong’s thesis project at Pratt.

Adam Friedman​​, chief strategy officer of research and strategic partnerships, was interviewed for the City & State article “New York City’s uphill battle to save manufacturing”: “People need heat pumps, people need probably dry wells to handle the downpours, people need a whole bunch of existing technology … If we can channel more of that to be produced in the city, I think that there’s some real job creation opportunities there.”

Eddie Bautista, MS City and Regional Planning ’02, was interviewed by Gothamist for the story “Is NYC ready for summer heat? An environmental watchdog doesn’t think so.”: “There appears to be, at least from our perspective, a real lack of urgency.”

Tim Richartz, adjunct assistant professor of industrial design, was interviewed for a Fast Company story on independent designers working within a furniture industry dominated by large companies: “You can find people who are willing to create products that are meaningful, and as creative people that’s what we want to do.”

Rudy Gutierrez, professor of undergraduate communications design, was commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its Poster Program to create work on view in New York City subway stations, subway cars, and buses.

Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, contributed an Independence Day-themed cover to The New Yorker. It depicts a young woman on roller skates in Times Square: “It’s iconic New York City, a unique spectacle that should be experienced by everyone at least once in a lifetime.”

The 2023 Core77 Design Awards honored several students and faculty, including Lauren Haag, MPS Design Management ’23, Peter Harvey, BID ’23; MArch ’26, fashion design and industrial design faculty member Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, and Xiner Zhang, MID ’23, for two projects. A team entry from an Arts and Cultural Management course won a Design for Social Impact Award.

MoMA Magazine featured an interview on trans politics and visibility over the last decade with Carlos Motta, associate professor of sculpture and integrated practices, who has an installation in the current exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World: “I will always retain hope in intergenerational organizing.”