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  • Daiwen Mila Wang, BFA Fine Arts (Jewelry) ’23, was selected for inclusion in the So Fresh + So Clean Exhibition by Ethical Metalsmiths. Her Glass Vitamin Necklace from her 2023 thesis collection will be featured.

  • Mark Grattan, BID ’06, was featured in Elle Decor for designing the home of U.S. sports stars Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird. “I wanted to try a moment where it doesn’t work on paper,” Grattan said. “It works only in real life.”

  • The experimental play “Kinderkrankenhaus” by Jesi Bender, MSLIS ’12, will show at Brooklyn’s Brick Theater in September. The play “explores neurodiversity, the pathologizing of difference, and the complexity of labels in a world where the unspeaking are seen as unthinking.”

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • 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.”

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