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Woody Wei, BID ’22, sharing his Robot in a Box-inspired kit with middle school students at NYC FIRST (photo by Steve Turbek)

DIY Robots that Share Storytelling and STEM Learning

Using circuit boards, coding, and stories from fairy tales and fantasy, Pratt Institute undergraduate industrial design students recently engaged middle school students in robotics through STEM learning kits. One by Thyan Zou, BID ’22, references Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Ida’s…

“Reflections of Resistance” by Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24 (photo by Kate Therrian Barron)

School of Art

An Augmented Reality Installation Celebrates Black Women’s Leadership in Activism

Using augmented reality and bold illustrations, Ananda Ray, BFA Digital Arts ’24, is bringing awareness to the stories of three generations of Black women whose activism for equality made a lasting impact. Called “Reflections of Resistance,” the vibrant art…

It’s Been 66 Years, and Young Men are Still Obsessed With the Eames Lounger

Google and Biodesign Challenge Pick Winning Student Ideas in Biotech

Architecture

Inflatable Structures Visualize the Plastic Waste Crisis

The world is overwhelmed with plastic waste, a material that has the potential and need for reuse. In an undergraduate architecture studio, Pratt Institute students created large-scale inflatable structures from recycled plastic to both visualize this environmental issue and present…

Camille Pissarro, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie” (1897), oil on canvas (via Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum/Wikimedia)

Library and Information Science

Mapping the Recovery of Nazi-Looted Artworks

Almost eight decades since the end of World War II, art looted by the Nazis from the homes of Jewish collectors and others persecuted under the Third Reich continues to be recovered. Camille Pissarro’s “Rue Saint-Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de…

From Together While Apart: Maia to Brynn (left), Brynn to Emily (center), Emily to Maia (right)

Graduate Communications Design

Exploring Togetherness through Design

Finding ways to be with others has been a challenge throughout this period of pandemic isolation and social distancing, and an important reminder of the value that individuals and communities place on being together. How do we overcome not only…

The Textile Dye Garden on the Pratt Brooklyn campus (all images courtesy the Textile Dye Garden)

Fashion

A Campus Garden Flourishes with Flowers for Natural Dyes

Cultivating beds of indigo, marigolds, dahlias, hibiscus, and goldenrod, Pratt Institute students are exploring how to make natural dyes from seed to harvest. The Textile Dye Garden was planted in Cannoneer Court on the Brooklyn campus this year, and…

Image from the “Land Given Back to Water” scenario from the Sustainable Communities Studio (all images courtesy Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE))

City and Regional Planning

Empowering Coastal Communities in a Future of Rising Shorelines

With the world’s sea levels projected to rise due to global warming, much of the New York City coastline could be underwater by 2100. Planning for these changes is essential and in a recent studio, Pratt Institute students…