Opening Reception Monday, March 24, 6:00 – 10:00 pm Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus 200 Willoughby Avenue Juliana Curran Terian Design Center Steuben Gallery Clinton-Washington stop on the G train There is a growing landscape of discarded plastic. In many urban cities this accumulation of plastic, particularly bottles, gets picked through and collected by Canners, who […]
Category Archives: Thesis Projects
The Malinalco Project
In May of this year, 12 Master of Industrial Design (MID) candidates from the Pratt Institute led by Professor Rebecca Welz, had the opportunity to spend two weeks in the town of Malinalco, Mexico, where they collaborated with 13 local artisans to design and fabricate their projects. Each artisan/student pair spent full working days brainstorming, […]
Sustainability for the Contemporary Nomad Thesis
Molly Sherman is a student in Deborah Schneiderman’s Graduate Thesis class. As it stands now, the prospects for migrants are bleak. The poverty rate among farm workers is two times that of other occupations and the average farm worker only has a 7th grade education. Additionally, 80% of workers are foreign-born, 53% are undocumented and […]
Bodegomatic Thesis
Kyung Cha is an interior design student in Deborah Schneiderman’s Graduate Thesis class. Our society is in the midst of a paradigm shift in which environmental and economic criteria are being reappraised. Issues such as climate protection and conservation of resources have resulted in a change in the image of our built environment. Interior design, […]
MID Thesis: Circumstancia
Asli Ozcivelek is a 3rd year graduate student in Bruce Hannah’s Thesis class. Circumstancia is about looking at products within the context of their circumstances. As a result, it aims to try to adapt them to their environment just like species adapt to theirs in nature. It tries to produce better suited products that not […]
Heidy Garay – PATTERNS IN TECHNOLOGY
EXPLANATION OF WORK: The PATTERNS IN TECHNOLOGY collection is about creating a narrative centered on technological products in our present and recent past. As consumers we are often preoccupied with the newest and most advanced gadget. Additionally, many electronics are made to have a very short life span. With the rapid change in technology products […]
Aderyn Wood – Walls in the Head
My interventions with pre-existing architecture arise from my critical dialogue with self, other, and whole. Insofar as architecture creates an exoskeletal social structure, it becomes an extension of the self, orienting one’s surroundings. As I occupy my body, so too I occupy my direct circumstances. By exposing the internal framework I can further understand how architecture […]
Kevin William Reed – The Behemoth
This is the largest and most successfully executed of all of my large-scale trash installation projects I completed for my thesis exhibition as a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts Degree at Pratt and its reincarnation was the first of a couple different projects I completed post-grad with the trash installation materials I had […]
Trash Quilt – Elizabeth New
Explanation Of Work: Recently Exhibited in the Core77 Open during 2012 Design Week, “Trash Quilt” is patterned after a classic double wedding ring quilt. From far away you can see the beautiful earth tones moving in and out of the one another, but as you get closer you begin to realize that all the textures […]
Lina Fedirko – Sustainable Fashion Designer
Lina Fedirko – Sustainable Fashion Designer from Pratt CSDS on Vimeo. Lina Fedirko, senior fashion design major at Pratt Institute, talks with us about the concept for her senior thesis, a sustainable fashion line.
Campus Area Biking
Kamdyn Moore, Environmental Systems Management Program Alternative transportation has been one of the City’s leading initiatives, highlighting bike transit as one of the most “environmentally-friendly and space-efficient” ways of traveling around the five boroughs. New York City’s Mayor, Michael Bloomberg’s PlaNYC acknowledges and supports opportunities for improving education on the benefits of bicycling, safety issues, […]