Research hailing from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences is as diverse and wide-ranging as the disciplines contained within the school itself. Projects seek to explain complex subjects through interactive learning, the study of colors sourced from nature, and a residency at a Zen monastery that informed a novel.
Eleonora Del Federico
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Mathematics and Science
This research shows our comparison studies of natural dyed textiles and modern synthetic textiles, which include color stability and durability, as well as how the color hue can be manipulated using natural additives.
Mark Rosin
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Math and Science
How would colors appear if you had animal eyes or super-human vision? Color Blind explores the mind-blowing world of metamerisms, in which scientifically designed mixtures of light and color expose the limitations and potential of human vision.
STEAMPLANT INITIATIVE
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Math and Science
Emancipatory Urban Futures is a STEAMPlant Initiative project at the intersection of art, technology, and research aimed at envisioning a more inclusive and just city for the next generation.
Claire Donato
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Writing
Seed Grantee 2019-2020
Was Not Sexual in the Zendo: A Novel is a meditation on Zen renunciation told through the perspective of a 33-year old adjunct professor living in a Buddhist monastery.
Helio Takai and Mary Lempres
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Math and Science
We deviate from the traditional museum setting of informal learning, instead bringing interactive art to teach science where there is a public and communicate it in a multisensory fashion that could easily be replicated in virtually any space.
Melissa Eidson
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Humanities and Media Studies
Slow Fashion is a feature length documentary in three parts. Issues of cultural appropriation, the commodifying of culture, and relationships between weavers/block printers and designers are examined, as well as solutions provided by new business practices.
Francis Bradley
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Social Science and Cultural Studies
Seed Grantee 2019-2020
The Global South Center Oceans Project activates a working group comprised of Pratt faculty, bridging the Global South Center with the Center for Materials and Science to bring interdisciplinary perspectives to one of the most vital problems facing the world today: the degradation of the world’s oceans.
Martha Wilson
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Seed Grantee 2019-2020
Transcending Tradition: The Role of Performance Art in Elementary Education aims to study how time-based performance art is uniquely effective in the elementary school classroom and makes available various methods we observe to promoting equity in educational settings.
