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Rebekah Morris, senior program manager at the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for a Gothamist story on the ongoing safety issues of New York City’s basement apartments as another hurricane season is underway. The story highlighted the Pratt Center’s years of advocacy on the issue.

Olivia Gorman, MID ’22, designed the Heer-oh desk for working from home with minimal space. The design creates a calm and focused environment. Read more on the Pratt MID site.

Quilian Riano, assistant dean of the School of Architecture, was elected vice-president for architecture of the Architectural League of New York. The announcement was covered by the Architect’s Newspaper.

Check out photos from 1976 and 1980 on @prattischool from when the School of Information was the Graduate School of Library & Information Science.

The 58th Carnegie International opening September 24, 2022, at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh includes work by Carlos Motta, associate professor of interdisciplinary practice in fine arts, and Félix González-Torres, BFA Photography ’83. Titled Is it morning for you yet?, the exhibition features historical and contemporary work to examine how artists respond to critical questions in the world.

Juan Camilo Osorio, assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), was named Brooklyn representative on the City Planning Commission by Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. Read more in the report from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Through August 20 in the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor is exhibiting drawings, photography, video, posters, and installations reflecting on queer and left activism. Read more @prattexhibits.

“Interplay” by Chen Zhong, MFA Interior Design ’22, reimagines an interior as an incubator for spontaneous encounters and unexpected interplay between strangers, seeking to re-establish interpersonal relationships lost during the pandemic. Read more @prattinteriors.

Ekam Singh, MArch ’23, contributed chapters on two queer spaces in New Delhi, India—one a nightclub and the other an elapsed community theater—to the new Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories publication by RIBA Books. In conjunction with its publication and Pride Month, Singh spoke at the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

DDA animation students created mini-bios of LGBTQ+ heroes in collaboration with VideoOut’s The Scope. See their work online, including Shane Cagney and Mali Javadi’s animation for Sister Rosetta Tharpe.