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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AIA New York awarded Pratt School of Architecture alumni Ayesha Agha, MArch ’22, and Courtney Elizabeth Ferguson, BArch ’10, among six 2030 Fund Awardees. The award helps aspiring BIPOC architects pay off their student loans.
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A picture book illustrated by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, is a 2024 Kirkus Prize finalist in young readers’ literature. Phingbodhipakkiya’s solo exhibition was also reviewed in Broadway World.
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Leslie, a Non-Fiction II project by Lisa Dodell, BFA Film ’25, is showing at DOC NYC. It will be playing at the Angelica on November 21.
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Quilian Riano, dean of the School of Architecture, was a featured panelist on the nycoba|NOMA This is How We Built This! educators roundtable, which provided “the opportunity to explore what it means to be an architect and educator.”
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Estefania Velez Rodriguez was awarded a 2024 UCROSS Fellowship.
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Rebekah Morris-Gonzalez, director of climate initiatives at the Pratt Center, wrote a piece for City Limits about New York’s $5 billion climate opportunity. “With $5 billion at our disposal and the climate and housing crises looming, we can’t afford to continue the energy efficiency redlining that is currently built into the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) incentive design,” she writes. “It’s time to address long-standing inequities and make investments that will deliver clean energy technology to LMI communities hardest hit by historical disinvestments and the climate crisis.”
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The Seas by Professor of Writing Samantha Hunt was featured on Electric Literature’s list of “7 Books Channeling the Mythic Horror of Girlhood.”
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