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School of Design

DIY Robots that Share Storytelling and STEM Learning

Using circuit boards, coding, and stories from fairy tales and fantasy, Ģ����ý 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…

Fashion

Alumna Jane Nord Creates Pratt’s First Named Professorship to Cultivate the Next Generation of Fashion Designers

Through the generosity of alumna Jane B. Nord, Ģ����ý announces its first named professorship. The $3.5 million-dollar rotating endowed professorship position will be for a faculty member in the School of Design’s Department of Fashion. It will…

Graduate Communications Design

Associate Professor Gaia Hwang Named Chair of Graduate Communications Design

Gaia Hwang has been appointed chair of graduate communications design in Ģ����ý’s School of Design. She assumed the role in January 2022. Hwang’s accomplished work in design and education is complemented by a focus on interdisciplinary practices.

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…

School of Design

A Campus Garden Flourishes with Flowers for Natural Dyes

Cultivating beds of indigo, marigolds, dahlias, hibiscus, and goldenrod, Ģ����ý 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…

School of Design

Capturing the Ephemeral Beauty of a Fall Day in Central Park

On a fall day in Central Park, Ģ����ý students got hands-on experience using illustration to communicate a time and place. As an extension of the Drawing on Location class led by Veronica Lawlor, adjunct professor-CCE of undergraduate…

Film/Video

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

Mentorship can offer guidance, connections, and encouragement for students to go forward with their ambitions and visions for the future. Across Ģ����ý, students are taking leadership roles in creating and developing mentoring programs that support their needs,…

Foundation

Students Bring Public Art to Myrtle Avenue with an Oversized Welcome Mat, Animations, and More

Ģ����ý students rolled out a colossal welcome mat for the kickoff weekend of the fall 2021 Foundation Expanded, an ongoing initiative to bring public art to Myrtle Avenue. With “Keep Going!” spelled out in large letters,…

Graduate Industrial Design

Diverting Waste from Food, Textiles, and Packaging into New Designs

In the worldwide crisis of waste, there is a need to rethink what we are casting off into the landfills that could have a second life. Ģ����ý students are exploring how the excess materials and one-use items…

Graduate Industrial Design

Industrial Design Alumni Karen Stone, Chen Chen, and Kai Williams Honored at 2021 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards

The 2021 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards held virtually on August 12 honored the outstanding achievements and design leadership of three Ģ����ý alumni. Karen Stone, MID ’94 and adjunct associate professor-CCE of industrial design, received the 2021 Rowena…