Moving through this transformational time, how we engage with the world is significant to how the future takes shape. At Pratt, our students, faculty, and graduates are taking up the charge with agency and optimism, speaking into complex narratives, giving voice to the experience of the moment, and facing challenges with critical reflection and care to move conversations forward here in New York City and around the globe.
Dreamscapes
A network of paper flowers pulses on a wall and ethereal sounds hover in the air, issuing forth as you lift lids from tall clay…
Start Here
How are Pratt people imagining and making the future, as contributors to society and agents of change? How is their work grappling with issues of…
Prism of Perspective
In moments of cultural change, when the hard work of shifting perspectives is essential to benevolent forms of human evolution, leaders who have long prepared…
Practice: A Visit to Swale Lab with Artist Mary Mattingly
On a sundrenched Saturday in July, the windows and doors of Building 11 at Governors Island’s Nolan Park were flung open, rooms humming with activity.…
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Rematerializing a Thriving Black Commons
Invisible Realities of Future-Past, the degree project of Cierra Francillon and Caleb-Joshua Spring, both BArch ’22, won the Pratt Institute School of Architecture Degree Project… -
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Perspective: With Cheryl D. Miller, MS Communications Design ’85
“Cheryl D. Miller, president of Cheryl D. Miller Design, had no idea that her 1987 Print magazine article, ‘Black Designers: Missing in Action,’ would catapult… -
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Spotlight: Best Recipe from the 2085 New York Paw Paw Festival
For residents of New York City decades from now, technology may permeate daily life, engineering even the animals and plants that dwell alongside them, but… -
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New and Noteworthy Fall 2022
Mickalene Thomas, with texts by Roxane Gay and Kellie Jones (Phaidon)Mickalene Thomas, BFA Fine Arts ’00 The first monograph on Mickalene Thomas, created in collaboration… -
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In Conversation with the President: From a Moment of Disruption, Building with Optimism
Moving through this transformational time, how we engage with the world is significant to how the future takes shape. At Pratt, our students and graduates… -
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Pits, Peels, and Packaging
Two decades ago, the influential design text Cradle to Cradle asked how we as a species could leave a footprint “to delight in, not lament,”… -
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About the Cover
Hitarth Nandi and Thwisha Shah, both MS Architecture ’22 Territory Ground Material Tests, Physical Model, Eastern Development Zone, Governors Island, New York, from the project… -
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Class Notes
Prattfolio Class Notes highlights Pratt alumni news and updates on work and life. Read on for the Fall 2022 issue’s dispatches, and see below for…
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