Pratt Institute has earned a STARS Gold rating in the 2024 Sustainable Campus Index by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). For the second consecutive year, Pratt has ranked in the top 10 of masters degree-awarding institutions for overall performance, with especially high scores in curriculum, research, and campus engagement. STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System) measures and encourages sustainability in all aspects of higher education.
The Daily Hub
A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute
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Jojo Buchmann, BFA Fine Arts (Painting) ’28, was among GrowHouse NYC’s 2024 Youth Design Competition winners for her piece Know Who You Are. “If we can see art as a gateway to transforming our perspectives, imagine how much change can happen in one individual, and then imagine society as a whole,” said Buchmann.
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Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin, academic director of the landscape architecture program, won The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize. “The purpose of this prize is to reward contributors to the intellectual vitality of garden history and landscape studies.”
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Ik-Joong Kang, MFA Fine Arts ’88, is the first Korean artist to participate in Forever Is Now, an exhibition set amidst the Pyramids of Giza. The exhibition news is featured in Hypebeast, Design Boom, The Art Newspaper, and Korea.net. Kang is also featured in Fad Magazine for his 700-foot-tall work at the Korean Cultural Center New York.
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Dr. Yuliya Dzyuban, assistant professor in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, has been appointed to the Fifth New York Panel on Climate Change, “an independent advisory body that synthesizes scientific information on climate change and advises city policymakers on local resiliency and adaptation strategies that protect against extreme heat, heavy rain, coastal storm surge, and other climate hazards.” Dzyuban, the first full-time faculty member in the Sustainable Environmental Systems program, specializes in studying the impacts of rising temperatures in cities and helps to develop nature-based solutions that improve climate resilience.
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Yihang (Edward) Xu, BID ’25, has been recognized with a Red Dot Concept Award for his project AirFarm, a self-sustainable mobile solution for modern nomads that he began in a studio taught by Chamille Thayer, professor of industrial design. Red Dot aims to celebrate the best ideas in design and business.
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A new exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, BFA Photography ’83, was featured in Smithsonian Magazine. The exhibition is presented by the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art.
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Duke Riley, MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’06, was featured in a Forbes roundup of artists embracing environmentalism or sustainability at Paris Art Week. Riley was recognized for his “sustainable artistic practice” that “explores the dichotomy between powerful institutions and the natural world, and addresses environmental issues raised by an overwhelmingly consumerist, capitalist society.”
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Michael Maltzan, founder of Michael Maltzan Architects, gave the The Arnold Syrop, BArch ’61, and Joanne Syrop Annual Lecture to students spanning design disciplines at Pratt. Following the lecture, Maltzan was interviewed for STIRworld.
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A team of recent Pratt alumni, including Ziyan Wu, Yushu Zhuang, Yirong Zhang, and Yunyu Huang, all BFA Interior Design ’24, was among the top 10 finalists and won the People’s Choice Award at the Accor Design Awards 2024 for their project Sofitel Shanghai: The Light Beyond.
