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Ron Shiffman, professor emeritus in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), joined the Daily Show webcast for a discussion on gentrification in Brooklyn, how it impacts the displacement of people and culture, and how people moving into neighborhoods can contribute to responsible change. Watch the full conversation on YouTube.

A new digital exhibition celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Pratt Libraries building on the Brooklyn campus which opened in 1896. It was designed by William B. Tubby with interiors by Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company.

To mark a year since Hurricane Ida, Sylvia Morse, program manager for policy at the Pratt Center for Community Development, wrote about the ongoing need for action amidst a new hurricane season. NYC Comptroller Brad Lander also cited Pratt Center’s research and advocacy in a proposed regulatory framework. Further coverage highlighting this issue and Pratt Center’s work includes CityLab, Pix11, and The City.

Last Seen by Nathan Ginter,  BFA Film ’23, is screening at the New York Indie Shorts Awards happening September 8-10 at Cinépolis Chelsea in Manhattan. 

Why We Can’t Have Nice Things by Minh-Ha T. Pham, associate professor of humanities and media studies, being published this month by Duke University Press, was featured in Vulture’s “Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall.”  The book explores the influence of social media on fashion, ethics, and property.

This year’s New York Film Festival includes the short film It Smells Like Springtime by Mackie Mallison, BFA Film/Video ’23, which will be part of the Currents lineup. White Noise, part of the Main Slate program, has post-production work by Morgan Miller, adjunct assistant professor of digital arts and animation, and Jennifer Klockner, BFA Digital Arts ’18. The festival presented by Film at Lincoln Center runs from September 30 to October 16.

As covered by Artnet, artwork for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck by Pratt alumna Pamela Colman Smith is on view through February 26, 2023, in At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Smith enrolled at Pratt in 1893 and studied under artist Arthur Wesley Dow.

Through a Documentary Heritage Program grant from the New York State Archives, over 60 linear feet of records from the Pratt Center for Community Development have been processed and are now held and preserved by the Pratt Institute Archives. Pratt Center’s Archives Administration Fellow Jack O’Malley, MLIS ’22, wrote about the project on the Pratt Libraries Iron & Glass blog.

Olivia Meehan, MLIS ’22, contributed a guest post to the Library of Congress blog the Signal on “Diving into Digital Ephemera: Identifying Defunct URLs in the Web Archives.” She is a 2022 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress where her work has been overseen by Lauren Baker, MSLIS ’18.

Emily Ridings, BFA Fashion ’18, was featured in Garden & Gun magazine for her use of basket weaving in her designs. The story relates how she started experimenting with weaving while a student at Pratt: “I weave my heart through everything.”