Amanda Huynh, assistant professor of industrial design, contributed the article “Fostering a Multilingual Design Studio Classroom” to the spring 2021 issue of INNOVATION magazine, the quarterly publication of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA): “The future of industrial design looks like the increasingly diverse students in our classrooms. It is essential that our studio classroom environments allow them to be their full selves and affirm their lived experiences.”
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In its new Behind the Business series, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is spotlighting member stories each Monday through the summer. A recent video features Visiting Assistant Professor of Interior Design Ashira Israel, BArch ’11. Her Brooklyn-based design studio IN.SEK promotes sustainability in its furniture and challenges a culture of disposability and wastefulness.
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MID 2021 graduates are being highlighted on @prattindustrial, such as Zilan Chen whose Mixo-suit home rehabilitation system is a lower-body exoskeleton for children with cerebral palsy, focusing on knee and ankle-foot rehabilitation training.
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Students in the spring 2021 Projects in Digital Archives class worked with School of Information Dean Anthony Cocciolo on revamping the Lesbian Herstory Archives Audio/Visual Collections website with updates including better mobile device accessibility. School of Information students have previously digitized material including radio programs for the grassroots archive dedicated to preserving Lesbian history.
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In its Interviews with Esteemed Faculty series, the School of Architecture shared a conversation with Scott Ruff, adjunct associate professor of undergraduate architecture, and Jeffrey Hogrefe, professor of humanities and media studies, on how they have collaborated on engaging students in issues such as gentrification, working with local communities, and seeing architecture and design as ways to protect places.
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Recently for Mental Health Awareness Month, Pratt SGA, Pratt Health Promotion, Pratt Public Safety, the Office of Student Involvement, and ResLife created care packages for students living in Willoughby Residence Hall. “Each bag contained a pair of ear plugs, a sleep mask, face mask, Pratt journal, cat stress reliever, artwork postcard, and a letter from me,” said SGA President Danni Qu, BFA Communications Design ’21. “The artworks for the postcards were collected from Pratt students across all departments and years.”
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The Cannes Film Festival begins on July 6 and the Directors’ Fortnight lineup includes the short Sycorax by Lois Patiño and Matías Piñeiro, assistant professor of film and video.
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For the final week of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, artist and illustrator Nicole Rifkin, BFA Communications Design (Illustration) ’14, contributed cover art for The New Yorker depicting a reflective, intimate moment of self-presentation and pride: “When I was at Pratt, I visited Desert Island, a gallery/store where I first saw the work of Charles Burns, Jordan Crane, Adrian Tomine, and the Hernandez brothers … I became deeply immersed in those comics, and in finding unique ways of telling stories.”
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The Prattler is hosting a summer web series with recent student stories including Lauren Jonaitis examining the strangeness of COVID time and Nicole Delp discussing the challenges and triumphs of raising Seeing Eye puppies.
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Eddie Bautista, alumnus and visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE), was featured in Crain’s New York Business for his work tackling environmental racism through green policies in underserved communities, something that goes back to his childhood in Red Hook: “I made the connection to race, class and our lack of political power and the way our neighborhood was neglected.”
