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President Frances Bronet was appointed to the Future of Workers Task Force established this August by the NYC Mayor’s Office. The task force includes leaders from the city’s private, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors who are focusing on rebooting the city’s approach to talent and workforce development.

WWD featured the 30 Years of TenThousandThings retrospective of the jewelry designs of Ron Anderson and David Rees that is on view in the Pratt Institute Library on the Brooklyn campus through November 30.

Adam Friedman, chief strategy officer of research & strategic partnerships in the office of the provost, was quoted in the WWD story “G20 Summit Tackles How to ‘Recover,’ Fashion Tasked With the Same”: “The more we value better-made, better-quality and better-designed products that’s inevitably a good thing.”

The Architect’s Newspaper featured the reconstruction of Manhattan’s Hudson Street by MNLA, where Adjunct Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Signe Nielsen is founding principal, which expands sidewalks, adds trees and benches, and anticipates climate change: “Hudson Street had all the characteristics to become a place, not just a street.”

Students in Adaptations and Alterations of Historic Landmarks led by Kevin Wolfe, visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), visited the Roslyn Grist Mill in Roslyn, New York, as part of their exploration of the challenges of changing historic structures in a historic district. Photos from their visit are on the Roslyn Landmark Society site.

President Frances Bronet wrote an op-ed for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on how the Pratt community has responded to Hurricane Sandy by preparing for the future: “The next generation of students—supported by each other, their teachers, and mentors—has an incredible opportunity to problem solve with their neighborhoods, form unexpected partnerships across fields, and imagine new and restorative futures.”

The fall 2022 Pratt AAS/AOS Posters for a Cause exhibition is explorable online. Titled In Character: Visual Appeals in Text and Letterform, it is also on view through December 10 at Betty Bakery in Park Slope and features student work on reforestation, local street vendors, and more.

Ron Shiffman, professor emeritus in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), and Eddie Bautista, MS City and Regional Planning ’02, recently joined the Center for Brooklyn History for a conversation marking ten years since Hurricane Sandy. The program is available to watch on YouTube.

Britney Bautista, BFA Film ’23, was selected as a winner for Dolby Digital’s Finish The Script challenge, a nationwide competition in which filmmakers write scripts incorporating one ambiguous scene written by award-winning director Carlos López Estrada. The winners work with Dolby in LA on pre-production, roundtable writing workshops, and casting.

At the recent National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) annual conference, Pascale Sablan, BArch ’06, officially received the presidential staff and purple pin as NOMA’s fifth woman president. The event was covered by Architectural Record.