Students

School of Design

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…

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…

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…

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…