Social Justice

Pratt Institute Living Land Acknowledgment

Pratt Institute is situated in Lenapehoking, the traditional and unceded homeland of the Lenape, past, present, and future. The Lenape have been living on this land long before the United States was established, and their wisdom is essential to our…

Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Putting the Community First in Planning for a Brooklyn Neighborhood’s Future

As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in the local Brooklyn community and beyond to support a better, more equitable future with innovative solutions. In the…

Arts and Cultural Management

Bridging the Digital Access Divide with Community-Run Internet

With much of life and learning moved online during the pandemic, access to high-speed internet has been more essential than ever. However major disparities persist in who has that access. According to a report from the University of Michigan’s…

A Personal Politics

As spring unfolded and New York City slowly awakened—ready to reconnect, reimagine, and rebuild life together in the metropolis—students in Pratt Institute’s Fine Arts Social Practice Studio course were imagining how to activate the city, from a political standpoint. Their…

With Farah Kafei and Valentina Vergara, both BFA Communications Design ’18

When entering a creative field, it’s only natural to seek out the wisdom and work of predecessors whose experiences resonate with our own. But what happens when those voices are more rare, hidden gems than the crown jewels…

Designing for Nourishment of People and Communities

This story highlights five student projects that touched on themes of adaptability and resilience, with excerpts from student and faculty conversations at this past spring’s final, virtual reviews. (Excerpts have been edited and condensed.) Even before the global pandemic and…

Art Activated

In a one-room art studio, young men gather around a table to make stone carvings—representations of “defense objects” used for physical, emotional, or psychological protection. Across the room, fellow creators record video portraits in front of a backdrop, their movements…

Voices of a Generation

For civically engaged students today, the years surrounding their college careers have held their share of challenges. As they began to chart the course of their lives—as high schoolers, undergraduates, and young professionals preparing to return to school as graduate…

Turn, Turn, Turn

Students across America were incensed. It was Monday, May 4, 1970, a cool, overcast morning on the Pratt Institute campus. Students were reading news reports about the weekend’s university protests: fires, vandalism, and general outrage from Harlem to Long Island…

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Team Featuring Writing Alumna Lina Misitzis Awarded Pulitzer Prize for This American Life Episode

This American Life, The Out Crowd, episode 688, by Lola Dupre Lina Misitzis, BFA Writing ’11, produced a story for “The Out Crowd,” an episode of public radio program This American Life that won the…