Faculty

Filmmaker Eric Trenkamp ’18 on Defining Your Own Metrics of Success 

Eric Trenkamp, MA Media Studies ’18, has straddled career paths as an award-winning filmmaker and author, creating the feature-length film American Bomber (2013) and a monograph on Hollywood’s history of popularizing white supremacy, Race, War, and the Cinematic Myth of…

The Connections That Shape Us

“You are net weaving.” This is how Analia Segal, adjunct professor (CCE) of fine arts, describes building relationships as a student and beyond, in a mentor-mentee conversation with alumna Abbey Miller, BFA Fine Arts ’20, for this issue of…

A New Monograph Shines Light on John Pai’s Life in Sculpture

For decades, Pratt Institute School of Art and Design alumnus and professor emeritus John Pai, BID ’62; MFA Fine Arts (Sculpture) ’64, has been creating intricately welded sculptures. Pai has lived a varied life, moving at a young age from…

Provost

Investigating a New Approach to Teaching and Learning

Pratt faculty research transdisciplinary approaches to STEM teaching and learning through a project funded by the National Science Foundation.

For Taezoo Park, MFA Digital Arts ’12, the City Is His Circuit Board

Long before there were stores like Best Buy and RadioShack, if New Yorkers wanted to buy electronics, they would go to Radio Row, a 13-block stretch along the Lower West Side. That shuttered in the 1960s; today, overlooking that bygone…

Designing a Future in Self-Sustainable Housing

Living in cities offers tremendous rewards—proximity to culture and community, knowledge sharing and diversity, and density, posed as a solution to housing scarcity—but at what cost to the outskirts responsible for helping an urban center run? Meanwhile, densification outside the…

Faculty Books of 2023

Each year, professors from across Pratt Institute help reshape the world’s cultural and creative landscape through fresh publications of literature, art, and scholarship. The following is Prattfolio’s roundup of the latest titles including collections of architectural habitats, artistic experiments, poetry,…

Pratt Institute Centers Justice in Its First Cluster Hire

The “Diverse Voices Creating Just Futures” cluster hire will further grow and diversify Pratt’s faculty by creating five new tenure-track positions.

New and Noteworthy Fall 2023

Recent products and publications of Pratt Institute alumni and faculty include home decor, playful literature, and a new Forever stamp honoring a celebrated Pratt writer-illustrator. Ecophilia (Available Items)Constantin Boym, Professor of Industrial Design  Constantin Boym was…

The Making of the Objects We Live With

It was often called a furniture-making class, but instructor Gweny Jin both agreed and disagreed. “I would rather call it the class of ‘making things,’” Jin said in an overview of Family of Things, the Interior Options Lab she taught…