InfoShow25 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow25 is taking place Friday May 16 5:00-7:30pm in-person at Pratt Manhattan Center, followed by the SI Graduation Party (7:30-9:30pm).
More information and to RSVP can be found on Pratt.edu.
A PDF version of this program is forthcoming.
Session 1 – 5:05pm – 5:45pm
Room 606 – Supporting Academic Communities
Moderator: Prof. Romel Espinel
Empowering the Next Generation of VR Creators (S1606a)
Manjot Kaur
A Reflection on the Murky Water of Copyright Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Libraries (S1606b)
Annalise Domenighini
The Environmental Sustainability Implications of Emerging Digital Technologies and the Academic Library (S1606c)
Saille Caia Murray
Room 609 – Designing for Inclusion
Moderator: Prof. Katie Temrowski
Design Across Borders: Reflections on International Collaboration with Kerala Museum (S1609a)
Pujan Thaker, Manvi Tandon, Srishti Bhawal, and Youlu Xu
Image Description, Alt-Text and Accessibility in Zine Libraries and Special Collections (S1609b)
Hanna Sheehan
Room 610 – Archives & Communities
Moderator: Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
Guerilla Archival: How Internet Collaboration can Contribute to Digital Archival (S1610a)
Pom Ann Giordano
Digitizing Women’s Radio (S1610b)
Emily Kokotajlo and James Coleman
Our Streets, Our Stories: Post-Custodial Collecting at the Center for Brooklyn History (S1610c)
Jake Gibson
Room 611, 612 and Hallway In-Between – Archives and Art-making Student Works (S1612)
Moderator: Dr. Kathy Carbone
Rica Borich, Lexis Horvath, Adina Karp (612), Allegra Mathew (611) and Elijah Spiegel
Room 704 – Information and Society
Moderator: Dr. John Lauermann
AI, but Make it Cute: How Cute Design Fosters Trust between Human-to-Machine Relationships (S1704a)
Gerard Andrei Samson
Packs – A Card Game Of Wolf Survival (S1704b)
John Veon
Hudson Valley Gentrification and Changes in Farming (S1704c)
Darcy Krasne
Room 712 – Panel: Easy Appointments, Clear Expectations – Scheduling and Beyond with NYC’s Financial Empowerment Center (S1712)
Jiyoung Jimin Hongm, Chu Yuan Chiu and Richa Shah
Room 714 – Museums & Design
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith
The Brooklyn Museum Project (S1714a)
Nidhi Gowda
My Product Design Fellowship at the Museum of Modern Art (S1714b)
Richa Shah
Designing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art (S1714c)
Nimisha Malreddy
Room 608a – Translating Heritage into Virtual Spaces: Designing the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum Virtual Tour (S1608a)
Cathelyna Suherman, Qiaochu Zhang, and Shrividya Kushalnagar
Break – 5:45 – 5:55pm
Session 2 – 5:55pm – 6:35pm
Room 606 – Working with Data
Moderator: Dr. Chris Alen Sula
Digital Humanities for Reality TV Fans: A Speculative Dataset for CBS’ Big Brother (S2606a)
Zoe Wilson
Visualizing Collection Insights: A Case Study Using Goodreads Metadata (S2606b)
Madeleine Casey
Data Science at the Brooklyn Museum (S2606c)
Ríain Fitzsimons
Room 609 – Service Design: Synthesis Wall Gallery Walks (S2609)
Moderator: Dr. Shruthi Chivukula
Sakshi Sonawani, Shivani Mehta, Michelle Sinofsky, Owen Meng, Rohan Boda, Liwen Chang, Sarah Geiz, Wenjia Liu, Nicolas Lord, Lillian MacGuire, Pujan Thaker and Betty Yang
Room 610 – Media and Art
Moderator: Dr. Filipa Calado
Digitizing Bettina (S2610a)
Shy Adelman
Critical Analysis: Archivo Franco Angeli (S2610b)
Jairo Samuda Mia Brice
Bursting the Bubble: Examining the role of algorithmic filter bubbles in the spread of misinformation amongst Gen-Z on TikTok (S2610c)
Pujan Thaker
Room 702 – Internet of Things (IoT) Class project demos (S2702)
Moderator: Dr. Monica Maceli
Natalie Cheng, Jeffrey Delacruz, Riley Knowles, Chieh Lei, Xueying Liu, Qasim Malik, Yuri Minami, Indrani Thool, John Veon and Pete Wise
Room 704 – Design & Social Dynamics
Moderator: Dr. Nancy Smith
Hatemap.io – Accessible UX for Complex, Credible, and Community-Focused Data (S2704a)
Rohan Boda, Jeffrey DelaCruz, Manjot Kaur, and Lillian MacGuire
School shootings and the manosphere: spatially correlated or moral panic? (S2704b)
Jocelyn Fung
My Work at Pratt Center: Integrating Data Skills into Non-Profit Impact (S2704c)
Yuanhao Wu
Room 705a – Food and Wellness
Moderator: Prof. Pam Pavliscak
Chef’d: Perfect your cooking journey (S2705a)
Rohini Raj Rajan, Gloria Yang, Conner Meek and Claire Paisley
expressoh! (S2705b)
Shreesa Shrestha, Minh Nguyen, Jasmine Chen and Myra Chen
AuraTura: The smarter way to track your Emotional Health (S2705c)
Manjot Kaur
Room 712 – Music & Design
Moderator: Prof. Ambreen Molitor
Meet Me in the Data (S2712a)
Scarlett Moldovan and Veneranda Aguirre
BeatDrop—Amazon Music Challenge (S2712b)
Simran Kaur, Manvi Tandon, Rohini Raj, and Uraiba Zafar
Hold On! (S2712c)
Srishti Bhawal
Room 714 – Curatorial Experience
Moderator: Prof. Cara Dellatte
Pratt’s Department of Exhibitions Fellowship (S2714a)
Nicolas Lord
Love’s Labour: Loss – a mini-exhibition on grief from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collections (S2714b)
Freddy Thompson
Allegory of Misfortune: Transsexuality In Between Identification and Transition (S2714c)
charlie chayyim shaw
Break – 6:35pm – 6:45pm
Session 3 – 6:45pm – 7:25pm
Room 613 – Metadata & Cataloging
Moderator: Molly Schoen
Cataloging for Representation – Considering Identity in Digital Collections at Thomas J. Watson Library (S3613a)
Aisha Khan
The NOSH Project: Copy Cataloguing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (S3613b)
Sylvie Freedman
LHA Fellowship Presentation & the Case for Metadata Remediation (S3613c)
Meg Carroll
Room 606 – Panel: Moral Panic, Practical Use: The Student GenAI Paradox (S3606)
Room 610 – Panel: Books as Art, Art as Data: A DH project in Collaboration with the Center for Book Arts (S3610)
Room 201 – Posters and (Digital) Objects Session (6:45-7:45pm)
Info Trees: Participatory Data Physicalization for the Info School Community (S3201a)
Fengqi Long
The Home of Tomorrow (S3201b)
Students in Speculative Design course: Reyna Yang, Maanya Agarwal, Radhika Balaji, Shriya Chipde, Roshni Ganesh, Yuexi Hua, Chelsea Mai, Owen Meng, Hridya Nadappattel, Anvita Shah and Ananya Yadav
The Amplification Project (S3201c)
Navya Thakkar, Nimisha Malreddy, and Kate Rowland
Charlie Chayyim Shaw, MSLIS: a portfolio (S3201d)
charlie chayyim shaw
Word Portraits Project (S3201e)
Christine Da Cruz
My Time at MoMA Library (S3201f)
Shy Adelman
How Much Do We Share? A Hathitrust v. Pratt Libraries Collection Comparison (S3201g)
Ellery Bruns
Beyond the Western Gaze (S3201h)
Simran Kaur
Franklin Furnace: Centering Ephemera in the Archive (S3201i)
Mia Greenberg
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Records Finding Aid (S3201j)
Maddy Heller, Gabe Valenzuela and Micah Donovick
Accessibility Project at Leslie Lohman Museum (S3201k)
Azka Qasim, Freddy Thompson and Grace Croken
Keywords and Thesauri at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (S3201l)
Alana Maisel
Five Activities for Navigating Ethics, Business, and User Needs using the Anti-Hero Card Deck (S3201m)
Shikha Mehta and Aayushi Bharadwaj
James Bond: Did All Of Those Martinis Impact His Performance? (S3201n)
Sara Zucker
VR Starter Kit: Reimagining VR for Pratt Students (S3201o)
Yuri Minami and Manjot Kaur
Visualizing Cognitive Health: Data Viz in Healthcare (S3201p)
Shreedhar Verma
Introducing the Leslie Lohman Museum (S3201q)
Zoe Kaperonis and Emily Drachman
BURO: Building Trust in Community Borrowing and Lending (S3201r)
Zhining Gu, Liwen Chang and Anita Liao
Motherhood effects on women’s labor force (S3201s)
Alice Viggiani
What Make NYC Hotter: A Data Visualization Project (S3201t)
Yuanhao Wu
Archiving the Web (S3201u)
Lila Milgrom
Playing the Humanities: Computer Games & History (S3201v)
Brendan O’Hagen
Archiving Fast Fashion: Considerations and Perspectives (S3201w)
Nick Brenner and Adonis Fuentes
Big Data – boon or bane? (S3201x)
Shrividya Shrihari
Global Cybersecurity Threats – Information Visualization (S3201y)
Shayla Singh
Reception and School of Information Graduation Party – 2nd Floor Lobby and Room 201 – 7:30-9:30pm
Around 8pm we will announce the award winners for best individual and group project, as well as the People’s Choice Award.
Awards
Thanks to a generous gift from the Estate of Robertina Campbell (MSLIS ’66), we are able to offer cash Prizes to Best Projects at InfoShow25. These include:
- Best Individual Project – $500
- Best Group Project – $1,000 (divided evenly among group members)
- Best Poster Award – $500
- People’s Choice Award – $500
The winner of the first three awards will be decided by a jury of faculty. The People’s Choice award will be selected by secret ballot by attendees to InfoShow.
Also On Display at Pratt Manhattan Center
The following exhibitions are not part of InfoShow25 but are on display here at Pratt Manhattan Center. They include:
- Black | Box: Dona Ann McAdams
Abby Robinson: AutoWorks & WaterWorks
1st Floor Gallery – 11AM to 6PM only - Associates Degrees School of Art (AAS) Graduating Student Exhibition
2nd Floor Lobby - Stand Up Straight, Girl!: Jamie Powell
Hiroko Nakamoto Pratt Manhattan Lobby
Thank you to…
Thank you to the Estate of Robertina Campbell (MSLIS ’66) for making possible the awards. Thank you to our faculty for nominating and shepherding student work all the way through InfoShow and to graduation. A special thank you to our awards jury: Profs. John Decker, Leanne Bowler and Craig MacDonald, and to Assistant Dean Quinn Lai for tallying the People’s Choice Award. Thank you to our session moderators for keeping our sessions moving smoothly this evening. Thank you to School of Information staff, including Nene Villalobos and Meredith Brull, as well as staff from across the Institute for their hard work in making this event possible. Thank you to our food staff for serving us this evening: Chartwells, Westside Market and J’s Pizza.
Lastly, thank you to all our student presenters and our 2025 graduating class!
To learn more about Pratt Shows and see more Pratt student work, please visit: pratt.edu/prattshows/