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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Associate Professor in the School of Information John Lauermann co-organized the GIS+LIS Workshop, which brought together 46 attendees, including 27 grad students from Pratt and Queens College CUNY. The program featured Pratt School of Information faculty, including Visiting Assistant Professor Claudia Berger, Assistant Professor Kathy Carbone, Electronic Resources Librarian Matt Garklavs, and Visiting Assistant Professor Will Geary, as well as recent alum Gabby Evergreen, MSLIS ’24.
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Lecturer in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies Dominik Heinrich discusses his use of artificial intelligence as the global head of AI Design at Coca-Cola and the future of AI design in an interview with Payload ahead of his participation in the 2nd annual Space Economy Summit. “I have the strong belief that designers lead and AI follows. AI in design supercharges human creativity and enables us to create real magic at scale.”
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The Architect’s Newspaper covered the School of Architecture’s recent exhibition Her Practice: the Architecture of Debora Reiser, including the opening night’s celebration, which can be viewed on Pratt Talks. “In contrast to the ‘singular genius’ of the so-called Modern Masters, Reiser’s practice of Total Design always embraced the heterogeneous and the open and always built upon a continuous dialogue between architect and client – form and space,” the exhibition’s curatorial statement read.
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The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley, associate professor of social science and cultural studies, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books, which calls it a “powerful manifesto for the shared artistic visions and cross-cultural pollinations of artists driven by a fearless anti-commercial desire to tinker and explore.”
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