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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Adjunct Professor of Undergraduate Architecture Signe Nielsen was interviewed for Architectural Record about transforming a former industrial site on Manhattan’s East River into a new pier park. “I was deeply moved by being able to design a park that I really felt would resonate with the community,” said Nielsen.
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You Burn Me by Associate Professor of Film/Video Matías Piñeiro was a Currents selection at the 62nd New York Film Festival. The film also played at Berlinale and has been reviewed in The Guardian and BFI.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Rachel Daniell, MS Data Analytics and Visualization ’19, co-presented “Visualizing a Contemporary Humanitarian Crisis: Exploratory Mapping of Migrant Deaths from the Unstructured Text of Newspaper Accounts” at the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) annual meeting. A recording of the presentation is also available on the NACIS YouTube channel.
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Karina Sharif, BFA Fashion Design ’08, was featured in Curbed. “Her peacock-like chair is captivating; it fans out dyed cotton paper along its solid steel frame; those delicate shell shapes in deep blues allude to the water that the artist (a former fashion designer) wanted to reference.”
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A new report by the Pratt Center for Community Development was cited in an article about public housing repairs in The City. “Real estate investors flipped nearly 12,000 New York City homes between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from the Pratt Center for Community Development. Flipping is a practice in which investors buy properties, sometimes fix them up, then sell them for a profit. Pratt’s analysis considers a flip to happen in two years, from purchase to sale.”
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Speedy Romeo, a short film by Owen Matson, BFA Film ’25, was selected for the Crystal Camera competition and the Chicago Horror Fest.
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Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Information Claudia Berger, MSLIS ’21, has been selected as the virtual artist-in-residence at the Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Libraries. Berger is also co-leading the working group session on “DH in Libraries” and is part of the panel “Crafting Digital Humanities: Data Physicalizations with Textiles,” at the 2024 virtual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Gabby Evergreen, MSLIS ’24, is also on the aforementioned panel.
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An excerpt from An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, a new novel by Adjunct Associate Professor – CCE of Writing Anna Moschovakis, was featured in Literary Hub. The book was also reviewed in the LA Times.
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Associate Professor of Film/Video Eliza Hittman is listed among the 10 movies that define contemporary America by Far Out Magazine. Her film Beach Rats was featured on Collider’s list of “10 Queer Movies That Are Perfect From Start to Finish.” She is also set to direct a new series on Peacock.