This collection of student work collected for the Spring ’23 Pratt Earth Action Week is centered around issues of sustainability. Students explored a broad range of design strategies from thoughtful form-making to playful education approaches. Projects focusing on the built environment explored the integration of sustainable materials and the application of circular design strategies. The projects were gathered from across the Institute and were completed within the last year.
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Symbiosis with Interiors
This project develops a manifesto with four points of creating sustainable interior design, by evaluating the influence of design interventions on embodied carbon and carbon offset. The interior is designed in a manner that it is a living organism that can respond to its environment, therefore forms a symbiosis with plants and fungi. School of…
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The Wading City
The Wading City comes out of the indeterminacy prevalent in the 2020s, particularly the idea of the city and the building not only as a changing entity but as an adaptable entity addressing rising sea levels, food insecurity, ecological degradation, and local economic downtrends around postindustrial waterfronts. Thus generating an architecture which could respond to…
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TuneIn:52/17
To promote sustainability, it’s crucial to remember that there are no fully sustainable materials. As such, we should focus on developing solutions that align with users’ needs and values. This approach was exemplified in this project that replaced a physical object with a simple Spotify playlist, which encouraged healthy behaviors such as reducing eye strain.…
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Urban Farmer Cohousing
Historically, Bedford-Stuyvesant has been considered a food desert. Typically, initiatives that aim to reduce food insecurity are led by outside groups without input from the community, this project proposes increasing quality food access through urban farming at a commercial scale run by and for residents of Bed-Stuy. Our design proposes a ground floor commercial farmer’s…
