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The IDC Foundation-funded PRAX_IS Innovation Incubator announced its inaugural awardees from the School of Architecture’s graduate programs. The incubator supports start-up funds, mentorship, and workspace to develop a business that amplifies climate literacy in the construction industry.

Graduate architecture students Ersan Illktan and Dani Abella designed “Ascendant Habitat” to explore the idea of a heightened connection to nature through sensory spirituality and a sense of materiality. Read more @prattsoa.

Elizabeth Bridges, MFA Interior Design ’18, and Garrett Benisch, MID ’19, were interviewed by Material Source on how they are transforming waste into new materials. Their work will be featured in the From the Ground Up biomaterials exhibition at Material Source Studio in Manchester.

Foundation faculty members Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson were shortlisted finalists in the Art and Science category of the 2021 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year for “Delay Lines” which explores relations between the environment, computing, robotics, and artificial life forms.

For Black Artstory Month on Myrtle Avenue, Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, created an interactive work in the windows of the Film/Video Building. Learn more @prattinstitute and on the Pratt.edu news page.

“Work” by April Maxey, BFA Film ’12, was part of the Short Film section at the 2022 Sundance Festival. In an interview with the San Antonio Current, Maxey discussed her work and the decision to change her focus from graphic design to film and video at Pratt: “I still think there is so much room for different voices in queer storytelling.”

Brook Boughton, MArch ’22, designed “Ulterior Ruins” in the Crisicity studio led by Alexandra Barker. The project centers on a disused coal power plant and its potential for oyster and algae ecology and climate justice. See more @prattsoa.

Coinciding with Black History Month, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion published a Black Resource Guide with links to resources, articles, books, films, podcasts, and other materials for the Pratt community.

In the Another Earth Integrative Course led by Visiting Instructor Victoria Wagner students explore the design of imaginary worlds. See some of their work from fall 2021 at @pratt_integrative_courses.