Sustainability Archives

School of Architecture Advocates for Climate Education with Pavilions & Projects on Governors Island

A “slice” of Harrison Atelier’s Pollinators Pavilion at the Bee Conservancy on Governors Island (photo by Adam Elstein) As New York City rebuilds in the aftermath of a long pandemic year, Pratt students are partnering in…

A Brooklyn native looks to fight environmental racism through green policies in underserved communities

13 new public art installations in NYC June 2021

Pratt Institute interior design students showcase end-of-year projects

Pratt is launching a new Master’s in Landscape Architecture program

Pratt brings climate advocacy projects to Governors Island

Work by Xiaoqing Rong, Cathy Zhang, Melissa Tu, and Angel Zhang, all BFA Jewelry ’21

School of Art

Recycling Silver & Using Glass Eyes as Gems, Students Instill Sustainability in their Jewelry Designs

Whether investigating the supply chain of rare metals or considering the waste of excess materials, Pratt Institute jewelry students are engaging with how to make environmental and ethical practices central to their work. Each year as part of the senior…

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…

A stereoscopic camera mounted on a robot arm

Research Accelerates

Throughout its history, Pratt Institute has been a fertile site for research—from the earliest drawing classes that helped students explore the visible world through their own hands, to technological study that shaped emerging manufacturing fields during the early 20th century,…

Habitat for the Bees

Think bees and one familiar set of images, habits, and behaviors likely comes to mind. But this is scratching the surface of all that could be understood about some of nature’s most industrious workers—vital knowledge that architect Ariane Lourie Harrison,…