Visiting Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Meg Kalinowski was named a 2024 Forefront Fellow by the Urban Design Forum. Over the next year, the Forefront Fellow for Urban Design Forum’s Lifelong cohort will explore how to build a more age-friendly city and imagine a New York City where older adults can thrive with support and dignity.
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Alex Provo helped create a new resource from Digital Library Federation (DLF), the Inclusive Metadata Toolkit.
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Pratt was listed #34 on the 2024 list of the top film schools in the U.S. by The Wrap. “The art school ethos permeates the film program, emphasizing that students can learn nontraditional forms of exhibition alongside the usual filmmaking courses.”
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Kylie McLaughlin, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’25, was named a finalist for the 2024 AXA Art prize.
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Associate Professor in the School of Information Nancy Smith will be presenting a data physicalization project called Ghost Futures at the 2024 virtual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, which represents global warming and coral bleaching data from the past 40 years. The piece uses fabric to represent rising temperatures over time and color-coded beads to represent major coral bleaching events during each year. It is designed to evoke the ocean, and the piece is made from recycled materials, including a found radiator cover.
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AVP for Student Success, Assessment, and Strategic Initiatives Rhonda Schaller was quoted in the New York Times about the closure of the Rubin Museum. “It’s been such a physical oasis…You could come in and leave the city behind, enter into a contemplative beautiful environment that encouraged you to slow down, take a breath and revisit what mattered and why.”
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Pratt sealed its second straight regular season title with a 9-0 win at Sarah Lawrence College in men’s tennis. The team was featured in New York Tennis Magazine.
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The School of Information’s Semantic Lab teamed up with Wikimedia NYC and Girls Who Code to host Wikidata Day, celebrating Wikidata’s 12th anniversary. The event was filled with workshops, lightning talks, keynote presentations, and networking sessions, covering topics ranging from using data to fight election misinformation to Wikidata’s applications in education.
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A hotel design project by Pratt students was shortlisted for the 2024 Accor Design Awards x Sofitel, a global competition that challenged participants to “imagine the luxury hotel of tomorrow.” Nearly 100 applications were submitted from students at 20 schools. Pratt’s submission, Sofitel, The Light Beyond, takes “joie de vivre as its creative guiding light” in order to “create a memorable experience for guests and employees alike.”
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A film by Christina Sancho-Spore, BFA Film ‘24, was awarded Best College Documentary by Reel East Texas.
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