I Didn’t See You There by Reid Davenport, visiting assistant professor of film and video, is premiering in the US Documentary Competition section at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The film explores how as a visibly disabled person the filmmaker is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze or rendered invisible.
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Pratt’s Semantic Lab received a 2022 Equity in Action grant to work with the Asian American Arts Centre in New York (AAAC) to ensure online access to the resources documenting its work including a collection of around 100 exhibition flyers that will be available on Wikimedia Commons.
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Architecture student David Tucker’s “Disclosed” combines the usually insular police station with an open and public library to challenge the way police stations have been designed in the past. See more @prattsoa.
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The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 features artist Devin Johnson, MFA ’19, and co-founders of hyperlocal social network OneRoof Nikos Georgantas, BID ’16, and Selin Sonmez, BID ’16.
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With the potential for more wintry weather ahead, here’s a look back at the recent snow on the Brooklyn campus from @prattinstitute.
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In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism by faculty members Jeffrey Hogrefe and Scott Ruff received the 2022 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Book Award. The award recognizes state-of-the-art research in architecture and related design fields.
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Emma Hastil, BFA Fashion Design ’13, was featured in the New York Times story “For One Rockaways Couple, Lockdown Was a Creative Windfall” on the apparel and housewares brand she co-founded during the pandemic.
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Lena Afridi, acting director of the Pratt Center for Community Development, was interviewed for an AFP article on fires and low-income housing in the wake of the deadly Bronx fire: “It’s less about building new housing stock and more about making sure what we have is safe.”
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WWD featured the kelp-based yarn being created by the Brooklyn company AlgiKnit, co-founded by Aaron Nesser, MID ’17: “The yarn we’re producing today has the look and feel of the natural fibers consumers are familiar with, plus all the makings of a no-compromise conscious material.”
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Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser, adjunct assistant professor in the Writing Department, was included in Harper’s Bazaar’s “Best, Buzziest New Books of 2022.” The book will be published January 25 by Pantheon.