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Pratt/Echo’s inaugural edition: Journey

This semester marked an exciting milestone as we launched Echo, a new online zine spearheaded by the Pratt UXPA, dedicated to showcasing Pratt’s UX community. For the inaugural…

Inclusive Futures: Personalization of User Interfaces Through Systematized Design

The concept of personalization in digital product design is becoming increasingly important as we spend more of our time in the digital world. Traditional design practices have focused…

Archives Weren’t Built In a Day: Artist Archives in Rome-New York

We are pleased to present Archives Weren’t Built In a Day: Artist Archives Rome-New York. Our presentation will cover our findings from the archival visits  conducted with the…

Nourishing People and Policy: Revisiting Fresh Food Access in NYC’s FRESH Program

This thesis project examines the role of NYC’s grocery store infrastructure and alternative food retail in promoting fresh food consumption within vulnerable communities. My work looks into the…

My Experience as a Fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development 2023-2024

This project looks into the growth of the PCCD’s partner, Made in NYC which is an organization that works to help local New York businesses. Having started in…

MixLive – Improve the live concert experience for Amazon Music App by using AI technology.

MixLive brings AI-powered mixed-reality concerts to Amazon Music Live, enhancing the experience. Personalized interactions with artist avatars and customizable scenes via Alexa offer immersion. Real-time AI optimization improves…

Militarization of Big Data

By Ellery Bruns, Tatum Cordy, and Erica Weidner Militarization of Big Data assesses and investigates the United States military’s use of big data to identify Generation Z individuals…

Fidelity in Web Archives: The Luxury of Quality Assurance

Concluding a year-long web archiving fellowship at The Frick Collection, this project investigates the value of high fidelity web archives against institutional budget and staffing concerns. Using survey…

Mapping Mental Health Interconnections

Exploring mental health patterns, this project discusses two main questions: ‘How do different mental health disorders interconnect?’, and ‘What factors influence mental health disorders?’ Utilizing data visualization and…

The color analysis of Artistic Giants at Art institute of Chicago

The project that I will be presenting is the color analysis by Python of the five artistic giants picked from the artist’s collection at the Art Institution of…

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…