Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment

Pratt Sustainable Environmental Systems and Pratt Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment are proud to have supported the planning and organization of the first #SustainableFavelaNetwork #InternationalExchange, bringing together grassroots leaders from Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and the United States. Participants will present their community-led #SustainableDevelopment, #EnvironmentalJustice, #EconomicDevelopment and other projects and campaigns, discuss their to public health and political contexts, and share their cultural programs. See below to register and attend!

Introducing our Alumni Spotlight series where we’ll highlight achievements and aspirations of our GCPE alumni. In our first spotlight, we spoke with Sarah Eccles (she/her), a Historic Preservation (@prattpreservation) graduate of Spring 2021. Sarah’s work has focused on the connection between people and the built environment. She is currently searching for a role in Village Preservation and discussed her thesis and studio work at GCPE. I think when we worked in the studios, ...particularly in Sunset Park, documenting Bush Terminal examining how an industrial site can relate to a community it was a real turning point in how I looked at historic preservation and how it shapes communities. I still keep tabs on what happens at Bush Terminal today. You can learn more about Sarah in the link in our bio.

Introducing our Alumni Spotlight series where we’ll highlight achievements and aspirations of our GCPE alumni. In our first spotlight, we spoke with Sarah Eccles (she/her), a Historic Preservation (@prattpreservation) graduate of Spring 2021. Sarah’s work has focused on the connection between people and the built environment. She is currently searching for a role in Village Preservation and discussed her thesis and studio work at GCPE. I think when we worked in the studios, ...particularly in Sunset Park, documenting Bush Terminal examining how an industrial site can relate to a community it was a real turning point in how I looked at historic preservation and how it shapes communities. I still keep tabs on what happens at Bush Terminal today. You can learn more about Sarah in the link in our bio.

Students, faculty, and staff of Pratt GCPE invite you to presentations of the Spring 2021 studios this Saturday, May 8th at 1:00 PM ET via Zoom! In teams, students worked with clients to tackle contemporary urban issues in preservation, placemaking, and sustainable communities across New York City. Students will also present the winning Pratt + NYU studio project for the HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Competition, designed for a community in California. We look ...forward to sharing their work with you and would like to thank our students for their perseverance throughout the virtual semester. Join us on Saturday! RSVP with Sandra Hetzel for Zoom info: [email protected] @prattsoa @prattpreservation @pratt_ses #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #CommunityPlanning #ParticipatoryActionResearch #UrbanPlacemaking #SustainableCommunities #HistoricPreservation #Sustainability #RegionalPlanning #JustTransitions #HeritageDocumentation #PublicSpaces #HUDAffordableHousing

Join us on Tues. 5/4 for an interactive discussion about place, race, and collective freedom. Registration link in bio. How do Abolitionism and Afrofuturism unlock emancipatory ways of thinking about, and transforming, communities? What is the significance of history to the present moment, and to how we think about the future? What are the paradoxes and possibilities of abolitionist planning?... This event features visionary practitioners from across the country, including: Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN Free Bangura, Founder and CEO of Untold RVA, Chair of Richmond's History and Culture Commission, Co-Chair of BLK RVA Sherri Franklin, CEO of the Urban Design Center in Los Angeles Terry Scott, Creative Producer with Leimert Park, Inc. in South Los Angeles Roland Wiley, Founder and Principal of RAW International Inc in Los Angeles jazsalyn, Creative Director of @blackbeyond_ Dr. Lisa Bates, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Portland State University Hope to see you there! #afrofuturism #abolitionplanning #abolition

Students, faculty, and staff of Pratt GCPE invite you to presentations of the Spring 2021 studios this Saturday, May 8th at 1:00 PM ET via Zoom! In teams, students worked with clients to tackle contemporary urban issues in preservation, placemaking, and sustainable communities across New York City. Students will also present the winning Pratt + NYU studio project for the HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Competition, designed for a community in California. We look ...forward to sharing their work with you and would like to thank our students for their perseverance throughout the virtual semester. Join us on Saturday! RSVP with Sandra Hetzel for Zoom info: [email protected] @prattsoa @prattpreservation @pratt_ses #UrbanPlanning #CityPlanning #CommunityPlanning #ParticipatoryActionResearch #UrbanPlacemaking #SustainableCommunities #HistoricPreservation #Sustainability #RegionalPlanning #JustTransitions #HeritageDocumentation #PublicSpaces #HUDAffordableHousing

Join us on Tues. 5/4 for an interactive discussion about place, race, and collective freedom. Registration link in bio. How do Abolitionism and Afrofuturism unlock emancipatory ways of thinking about, and transforming, communities? What is the significance of history to the present moment, and to how we think about the future? What are the paradoxes and possibilities of abolitionist planning?... This event features visionary practitioners from across the country, including: Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director of the Highlander Research & Education Center in New Market, TN Free Bangura, Founder and CEO of Untold RVA, Chair of Richmond's History and Culture Commission, Co-Chair of BLK RVA Sherri Franklin, CEO of the Urban Design Center in Los Angeles Terry Scott, Creative Producer with Leimert Park, Inc. in South Los Angeles Roland Wiley, Founder and Principal of RAW International Inc in Los Angeles jazsalyn, Creative Director of @blackbeyond_ Dr. Lisa Bates, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Portland State University Hope to see you there! #afrofuturism #abolitionplanning #abolition

We’re delighted to share the Pratt + NYU winning team’s project for the 2021 HUD Innovation in Affordable Housing student competition! A team of Pratt GCPE, Pratt Interior Design, and NYU Real Estate students have won the 2021 US Housing and Urban Development's Innovation in Affordable Housing national competition, receiving an award of $20,000! The winning team includes:... Pankti Mehta @pankti_13, Pratt Institute MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems Nella Schools, Pratt Institute MFA in Interior Design Browne Sebright @brownesebright, Pratt Institute MS in City and Regional Planning Kats Tamanaha, Pratt Institute MFA in Interior Design, MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems Sabyasachi Das, NYU Real Estate program The competition encourages research and innovation in affordable housing, to raise practitioner and future practitioner capacity, and to foster cross-cutting teamwork within design and community development processes. The proposed concept embeds breathability and permeability into the site by creating self-sustaining energy, water, and waste systems, promoting long-term social and economic growth, and encouraging connections and community building through active placemaking. The site of the housing authority is connected by a multi-modal corridor that links the entire housing authority site across what were originally five separate complexes. From its initial participatory planning to the eventual ownership of units by their residents, this community will not only meet the needs of Firebaugh’s low and moderate-income population, but enable the residents themselves to build a more equitable, sustainable, and vibrant neighborhood in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. @prattsoa @pratt_ses @prattinteriors @nyuniversity @hudgov See more

Happy Earth Day! Join us TONIGHT at 6:00 PM EDT for our fifth and final #CommunitiesBeyondCrisis event: Nourishing Communities of Life - Indigenous Resurgence beyond Syndemic Violence and Earth Crisis. RSVP link in bio. This panel gathers exemplary Indigenous Resurgence projects from across Abya Yala and Turtle Island (‘the Americas’). Committed to the defense, rematriation and nurturance of territories of life, these projects advance communal reciprocity through cosmovis...ions of Indigenous land-based sovereignty and self-determination. Such projects are real, decolonizing solutions to intersection syndemic crises of health, environment/climate, food and systemic violence (including state and corporate violence.) Join us in this panel as they share their complementary visions, strategies and pathways for systemic change. This speaker series, is a partnership with @pratt_drn and the Environment and the Indigeneity and Decolonization Initiative of the @tishmancenter, and by the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management program (EPSM) at The New School. #earthday #indigenoussovereignty #decolonization #landsovereignty #climatechange #disasterresponse

Our GCPE Spring Lecture Series concludes on Friday 4/30 with our final interactive panel on Decolonizing the Planning & Development Sector. Moderated by Professor Emeritus Ron Shiffman and NYC-EJA Executive Director Eddie Bautista, and co-sponsored by @PlannersNetworkNYC. Open to the public. Registration link in bio. Hope to see you there!

The Spring 2021 GCPE Lecture series is coming! Mark your calendars. Curated by Emeritus Professor Ronald Shiffman and NYC-EJA Executive Director Eddie Bautista, the series of panels brings together activists, educators, labor leaders, advocates and elected to officials to lay the path toward equitable recovery. Stay tuned for details.

International connections: sharing student and alumni research between GCPE, @scsa.ac.in and @anantuniversity!

As part of Pratt Institute's virtual Fall2020 #EarthActionWeek, Pratt Sustainability Center invites you to a panel on the GCPE's ongoing #PlanningBeyondCovid19 efforts, This Friday at 3:30pm! GCPE presenters include Ron Shiffman, Professor Emeritus; Juan Camilo Osorio, Assistant Professor; Eve Baron, Chair; and event moderators Delaney Morris and Browne Sebright, students and Pratt Disaster Resilience Network (PDRN) co-facilitators. The panel will focus on this Summer’s work ...by GCPE and partners to understand and conceptualize responses to the COVID-19 crisis, as it affects urbanist and design professions. We will discuss investigations to date by working groups on (1) #community constituency #connections; (2) comprehensive community #EconomicDevelopment; and (3) #resilient, #equitable, #redundant, and #regenerative #infrastructures. PDRN will then present on the student group’s emerging discussions around #HealthEquity, #MutualAid, #Density and #Overcrowding, and intersecting #race, #health, and #climate crises. An open discussion will follow. We’ll see you then!

Join this opportunity to learn about mapping and how it relates to questions of urban journalism, housing, equity, environment, housing, and drone technology.

GCPE alumni working with community garden activists and legal technical assistance to preserve these neighborhood hubs!