In addition to lectures and presentations taking place in classrooms, studios, and lecture halls there are events happening across the Institute dedicated to informing the Pratt community about all things sustainability. These include the bi-annual Pratt Earth Action Week which takes place in the Fall and Spring of each academic year.
The Pratt Sustainability Center is delighted to announce the upcoming Pratt Earth Action Week (PEAW) for Spring 2025, scheduled to run from March 31 – April 6. PEAW is a celebration of the innovative and impactful sustainability work happening across our community of artists, designers, and architects. This week-long series of events highlights the critical role of creative practice in tackling local and global environmental and social challenges.
This week is an opportunity to showcase the ideas, research, and projects that are shaping a more sustainable future within and beyond our campus. Through exhibitions, hands-on workshops, panel discussions, and collaborative design interventions, PEAW fosters cross-disciplinary conversations and solutions that push the boundaries of art, design, and architecture.
The Pratt Sustainability Center is delighted to announce that this Fall’s Pratt Earth Action Week (PEAW) took place from October 23-29, 2023. This week-long series of sustainability events celebrated the creative collaborations of the Pratt sustainability community and networks, and helped us connect, in person and remotely, across groups, disciplines, and initiatives. The week’s programming continued to address the intersecting crises of climate change and the racial and social justice issues that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems, but also sought to highlight successes and ongoing progress made by our students, faculty, staff, and partners in response to these challenges. Events throughout the week provided an architecture for conversation, debate, and the development of art and design solutions that can be best accomplished when we reconnect and work together.
The Pratt Sustainability Center is delighted to announce this Spring’s Pratt Earth Action Week (PEAW), which will take place from March 27 – April 2, 2023. This week-long series of sustainability events will celebrate the creative collaborations of the Pratt sustainability community and networks and help us connect, in person and remotely, across groups, disciplines, and initiatives. The week’s programming will continue to address intersecting crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and racial and social injustice that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems but seek to highlight successes and ongoing progress made by our students, faculty, staff, and partners in response to these challenges. Events throughout the week will provide an architecture for conversation, debate, and the development of art and design solutions to these complex problems.
The Fall’s Pratt Earth Action Week (PEAW) took place from October 17-23, 2022. This week-long series of sustainability events celebrated the creative collaborations of the Pratt sustainability community and networks and helped us connect, in person and remotely, across groups, disciplines, and initiatives. The week’s programming continued to address the intersecting crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the racial and social justice protests that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems but also sought to highlight successes and ongoing progress made by our students, faculty, staff, and partners in response to these challenges. Events throughout the week provided an architecture for conversation, debate, and the development of art and design solutions that can be best accomplished when we reconnect and work together.
Pratt Earth Action Week, Spring ’22
Pratt Institute celebrated the creative collaborations of the Pratt sustainability community and networks and helped us reconnect, in person and remotely, across groups, disciplines, and initiatives. The week’s programming continued to address the intersecting crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the racial and social justice protests that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems, but seek to highlight successes and ongoing progress made by our students, faculty, staff, and partners in response to these challenges. Events throughout the week provided an architecture for conversation, debate, and development of art and design solutions that can be best accomplished when we reconnect and work together. (under reconstruction)
Reflecting on our community’s experiences and response during the most recent climate events, this semester’s Pratt Earth Action Week centered around a public forum that reckoned with our current systems for disaster response and imagined how we could collectively build better and more resilient frameworks for future climate events. The week’s programming continued to address the intersecting crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the racial and social justice protests that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems. Coordinated events throughout the week provided an architecture for conversation, debate, and development of design solutions toward change with a focus on the relationship between climate change and mental health.
Pratt Earth Action Week, Spring ’21
This Spring’s Pratt Earth Action Week continued to focus on the ongoing and intersecting crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the racial and social justice protests that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems. This Earth Action Week aligned with the creative, forward-thinking, and solutions-driven spirit of the Pratt community to focus the theme on a just, sustainable, and prosperous recovery. The Spring event’s theme was Recover Renew Reconnect.(under reconstruction)
Pratt Earth Action Week, Fall ’20
The Fall 2020 Pratt Earth Action Week focused on the ongoing and intersecting crises of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the racial and social justice protests that have brought into relief systemic inequalities and unsustainable systems. An archive of the events can be found here. (under reconstruction)
