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Pratt students from Turkey and Pratt do_ (the Pratt chapter of IDSA) are partnering to raise awareness and relief following the Turkey–Syria earthquakes. Find details on donations and where to share physical items.

The 2022-23 Taconic Fellows have been announced, including a Pratt phenology trail, public history of transportation access, and a food justice project. Awarded annually by the Pratt Center for Community Development, the fellowships support Pratt’s contribution to civic engagement by supporting partnerships with community groups and organizations across New York City.

The Pratt Community Engagement Board is hosting the second annual Books to Prisons book drive. Books can be donated to different libraries for the incarcerated in New York City through the Prison Library Support Network’s Wishlists.

Participation by Anna Moschovakis, adjunct associate professor-CCE of writing, was reviewed in Bookforum and The Capilano Review. The novel is out now from Coffee House Press.

Layla Zami, adjunct associate professor of humanities and media studies, hosts the new Sonic Interventions podcast that explores the poetics of sound and its power to disrupt norms and transform society. The first episode is timed with Black History Month and features Mendi + Keith Obadike (a duo which includes Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies Mendi Obadike).

Pratt Center released “Creating Corner Stores and Cornerstones: How NYC Can Help Mission-Driven Housing Developers Create and Sustain Commercial & Community Spaces,” a report responding to the growing problem of commercial vacancies in New York City. It provides solutions that both the City and State can take to protect commercial businesses in a rental market that is pricing them out.

Luka Lucic, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was interviewed for Nature’s story “COVID school closures cost children one-third of a year’s learning”: “Kids were getting super familiarized with the cyberspace and technological context, and will in the future be much more native to the digital world.”

George Ranalli, BArch ’72, was profiled in the Bronx Times about his decades-long architecture practice and its connection to growing up in the Bronx: “It’s been a long relationship with the architecture of the borough.”

Fashionista’s story “How Fashion Schools Are Teaching the Metaverse” highlighted technology electives at Pratt like AI and interactive installations. Assistant Chair of Fashion Tessa Maffucci told the publication: “We felt it was important to introduce curriculum exploring ethical questions and considerations about how this technology is restructuring the relationship between fashion creation and consumption.”

Alumnus Roxy Paine was interviewed by Artforum about his recent work on time, technology, and how we perceive the world: “I want to take what is so instantaneous about machine learning and slow it through making.”