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Archives and Art-making class exhibition

The exhibition will comprise the students’ final projects—artworks that integrate or draw inspiration from digital or analog materials from the Pratt Institute Archives.

R.A.T.’s Nest: A Case Study in Archival Bonds, Orphan Image Research & Applying Radical Empathy

As archivists, how do the stories that we tell ourselves affect our work? Over the course of several months, I investigated a mysterious donation of photographs to the…

Perversity in Paris: Eugène Atget and La Belle Époque

Uncanny is a good word for much of the aesthetic of the Belle Époque, whether it captured the fever pitch of raucous nightlife in psychedelic color lithographs, or…

Taylor Swift, Music Masters, and the Ownership of Ideas: A U.S. Copyright Regime Examination

In a thought-provoking exploration of the evolution of U.S. copyright law, this presentation unveils the paradoxical reality that the very system designed to incentivize creativity has become a…

MOCA Tucson Stay Gold: Digital

Moving Queer Community to Virtual Space During COVID-19: Lessons from Stay Gold When the COVID-19 pandemic forced museums to shut their doors in 2020, the Stay Gold program…

A Citation Study on the Interdisciplinary Field of Fat Studies

This citation study analyzes the journal “Fat Studies” as a representative of the emergent interdisciplinary field of the same name. This study seeks to provide an initial map…

Meet JJ: A Fun and Effective Design System for Jamba Juice

JJ is a design system, complete with UI kit and documentation website, that captures the creativity and delight of the Jamba Juice brand. Incorporating consistency, accessibility, and efficiency,…

Designing a Sustainable Operating System with Biomimicry and Green Design Strategies

This project speculates how digital products could help users reduce the overconsumption of information and carbon emissions by examining and applying strategies from the natural world. Principles of…

Modeling MoMA’s traveling exhibition history in Wikidata

The focus of Samie Konet’s 2023-2024 Pratt-MoMA Linked Open Data Fellowship project focused specifically on identifying and modeling the relationships between traveling exhibitions originating out of MoMA’s exhibition…

The Interconnectedness of All Things: Automatic Discovery for Digital Archives

Digital archivists often have to contend with the difficulties of processing messy collections. They may have to deal with thousands of files on different media, which may cost…

Preservation of Cultural Sites and Artifacts During Wartimes

This article and presentation are an overview of some of the foreign policies implemented regarding cultural heritage protection during wartimes. With specific focus on the Gulf Wars in…

Recreating Edgemere Farm’s magic in the digital landscape : Website Redesign for a non-profit community farm

Edgemere Farm, situated in Rockaway, NY, is a volunteer-run, zero-profit urban farm committed to offering produce, open space, and education to the historically low-income community. Our project involved…

InfoShow23 Awards

We are pleased to announce the winners of the InfoShow23 Awards: Best Group Project First Place ($1,000 divided evenly) Manhattan Helicopter map (S1R606c)Ziqi Wang and Jiacheng Chen Second Place…

InfoShow23 Program

Infoshow23 is the annual showcase and celebration of Pratt School of Information student work, and is part of Pratt Shows. InfoShow is taking place on Thursday, May 11th…

An Argument for Graphic Novel Collections in Libraries

Comics are books and deserve an equal place on our shelves and in our digital resources. Come view my presentation and find out why both public and academic…

Women & Revolution: Unveiling the Struggles of Women’s Rights to Life and Freedom in Iran

This infographic poster was created for my Information & Human Rights course (INFO-619). It calls attention to the modern history of women’s rights movement in Iran, highlighting the…

New York City Green Spaces

Marc Molta The New York City Green Spaces web map connects people to publicly accessible green spaces in New York City. Community Gardens, selected Parks Properties, and Block-level…

Spiritual Technology

This project is a visual exploration of graphic design and commercial artwork depicting technology embedded with spiritual, esoteric and transcendental themes, mainly from American and Japanese publications. Advertisements researched…

Data-Driven Personas

Abstract This project runs a demographic analysis from the survey results on revitalization preferences at A Philip Randolph Square to see if and what patterns emerge in the…