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A Campus Garden Flourishes with Flowers for Natural Dyes

The Textile Dye Garden was planted in 2021 to offer a space for the Pratt community to join in discovering the beauty and sustainability of natural dyes.

November 29, 2021

Empowering Coastal Communities in a Future of Rising Shorelines

Graduate planning students in the Sustainable Communities Studio centered the residents of NYC’s Rockaway Peninsula in envisioning a place transformed by climate change.
November 17, 2021

Pratt to Launch Online Game Design and Interactive Media Associate Degree

The popular in-person Game Design and Interactive Media program will also be offered online starting in fall 2022.
November 15, 2021

Signe Nielsen on the New Horizons Now Possible for Landscape Architecture

The landscape architect and School of Architecture faculty member discussed the launch of Pratt’s Master of Landscape Architecture as well as her work on one of NYC’s newest parks, Little Island.
November 10, 2021

Where Are Pratt’s Most Recent Grads? Survey Shows Careers at Variety of Dynamic Companies

The latest first destination survey reports that Pratt graduates are above the national average in employment and job satisfaction.
November 9, 2021

Capturing the Ephemeral Beauty of a Fall Day in Central Park

Illustration students joined a reportage drawing gathering in the Manhattan park to sketch on-site and share their unique impressions of a busy autumn afternoon.
November 3, 2021

Pratt School of Architecture Launches Partnership with Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The new initiative will involve collaborative community partnerships, research, and classes in the graduate landscape architecture program.
October 27, 2021

Building a Unique Ecosystem for Creative Research at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Pratt, City Tech, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard partner on a cutting-edge new research facility.
October 26, 2021

The Importance of New York’s Urban Ecology Shared through Technology and Storytelling

New York-area high school students explored local nature with Pratt’s Consortium for Research & Robotics, creating a structure on Governors Island to share their stories with the public.

October 21, 2021

Made in NYC Week Reimagines the Future of Local Manufacturing

The 4th annual Made in NYC Week celebrated the vibrancy of New York makers with virtual discussions and in-person events at markets in all five boroughs.
October 13, 2021

In Mentoring Programs Students Learn to Support Each Other Now and in the Future

Across Pratt, students are spearheading mentoring initiatives bringing together classmates, alumni, and professionals to create community and connections.
October 13, 2021
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A roundup of ideas and projects from around the Institute

In America: A Lexicon of Fashion now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features several members of the Pratt community in its exploration of fashion in the United States. They include Sophie Andes-Gascon, BFA Fashion Design ’15, and Visiting Instructor Claire McKinney, BFA Fashion Design ’15, of SC103; Jeremy Scott, BFA Fashion Design ’95; fashion alumnus Norman Norell; Susan Cianciolo, assistant professor of fashion; and Mike Eckhaus, visiting associate professor of fashion design, of Eckhaus Latta.

December 2, 2021

The Pratt Institute Interior Design BFA and MFA digital exhibition that looks at how interiors can impact the world was highlighted in the “Ten most popular Dezeen School Shows of 2021.”

December 2, 2021

Pratt proudly announces its Living Land Acknowledgment, and encourages faculty, staff, and students to honor Lenape people and recognize occupied land by beginning all gatherings with it.

December 1, 2021

The latest issue of The Prattler, the student-run literary arts magazine, is available to read online. Themed on “(In)Visibility,” it includes interviews with Pratt students about how they view their work, a critique on the hypervisibility of gender in art and advertising, and an exploration of independent bookstores in Brooklyn.

December 1, 2021

Interior design students envisioned the future of a building in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side that has been closed to the public since the 1970s. Working with community members, they developed proposals for the revitalization of this urban community anchor, building on previous programming studies by community groups and former Pratt students. Read more @prattinteriors.

November 30, 2021

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The Magazine of Pratt Institute

Architecture for Rapid Response in a Health Crisis

How can architecture draw on technology and deep empathy to improve the clinic as we know it?

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Pratt’s 5th Annual Design Symposium ‘ReInvents Luxury’ At Whitney Museum

Pratt hosted the Pratt 2021 Design Symposium: Reinventing Luxury on November 17 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The annual symposium brings together the brightest minds from the fields of design, fashion, and architecture to address big topics about the future of design.

Film Daily

New York fashion designer Jiayue Ge launches her new menswear brand cerebrum

Jiayue Ge, BFA Fashion Design ’18 launched her new menswear brand “Cerebrum”.

i-D

Kristin Mallison’s tapestry corsets are a playful, punk take on femininity

Fashion designer Kristin Mallison, BFA Fashion/Apparel Design ’16, was interviewed by i-D about her latest collection ‘Le Jardin’.

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Community Garden To Be Revived In Bed-Stuy: Workshop This Week

Pratt, along with several nonprofits, has organized an event at John the Baptist Community Garden in Bed-Stuy. The event will celebrate the creation of a therapeutic community garden in the neighborhood.