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The 2025–2026 Taconic Fellows have been hard at work with community partners across New York City, advancing projects on housing justice, environmental resilience, and community planning. 🏙️

Over the next few weeks, we’ll highlight their work, starting with these three teams and the organizations they’re collaborating with. Their projects range from a public exhibition to community organizing initiatives.

Learn more about the Taconic Fellowship at prattcenter.net/taconic or through the link in our bio.

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We went on a mission today 💚🗽🌏 Is that time of the year! Switching to reusable totes is a small step with big results, helping reduce plastic waste and protect natural habitats. Let’s make sustainable choices together for a cleaner, greener future. 🌱👌🏼🤩 Shout out to our volunteers who make this happen!💚💙

@leap.prattinstitute @pratt_ses 💚

@prattgcpe
@prattinstitute
#prattearthactionweek #greenlife #raingardens #nyc #sustainabilitymatters

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Thank you to the MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems class of 2023-2024!

Fall 2023:
Jassi Anand
Alli DiGiacomo
Dhwani Bipinkumar Patel (not pictured)
Nia Starr (not pictured)

Spring 2024:
Ricky Bourke (not pictured)
Melissa Chow (not pictured)
Shibani Debnath
Aditi Galande
Raísa Lin Garden-Lucerna
Apurva Jhamb
Yassmin Lawzi
Bansri Makadiya
Syed Chand Nabil
Radhika Patel (not pictured)
Shruti Rathi (not pictured)
Nicole Saul Nigri (not pictured)
Omer Topaz

We look forward to seeing you walk across the stage tomorrow at @radiocitymusichall for the @prattinstitute Commencement ceremony, and to your bright careers in sustainability. Congratulations!

#PrattGrad2024 #Graduation #GradSchool #SustainableEnvironmentalSystems #SustainabilityCareers #celebration

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Join @prattsoa @pratt_ua @prattgcpe @cornellaap and @ccecornell for this week’s #EngagingCommunities Symposium. We will be hosting two in-person discussions on the roles and responsibilities of academic institutions and urbanist professionals when engaging with community organizations, leaders, and stakeholders on projects of varying scales, scopes, and approaches.

February 29th: Engagement as Practice
March 1st: UNPacking the Practice_ Public(Gardens, Health, & Education)

MS in SES’s own Gita Nandan will share the approach and work of our #DeltaCities #CoastalResilience #studio, and how it has informed her practice, projects, and way of working at @thread_design and @reti_center .

**No RSVP needed; bring your photo ID for registration at the door.**

#CommunityEngagement #Praxis #ParticipatoryPlanning #CoDesign #JustRelationships #ServiceLearning #PublicPanel #event #free #Pratt

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Pratt SoA Spring 2024 Events
https://architecture.pratt.edu/articles/soa-spring-2024-events

This semester, we continue to explore the theme of cohabitations—a school-wide provocation to bring together the work of our community—across our four departments of the School of Architecture—around this question. cohabitations is both a descriptive adjective, a qualifying adverb, and a transitive verb that calls us all to action.

We look forward to the exciting lineup that includes lectures and conversations with GAUD alums, Abra Lee and Thaïsa Way, Michael Maltzan (the Syrop Annual Lecture), Pratt SoA Professor Giuliano Fiorenzoli, James Wines of SITE, Joshua Ramus, Reports from the Discipline convened by Pratt SoA Professor Catherine Ingraham, and a book talk for Architecture, Film, and the In-Between by Pratt SoA Faculty members Eva Perez de Vega, MJ Sieira, and Jason Vigneri-Beane. There will also be a symposium co-organized by UA and GCPE titled Engaging Communities: Pedagogy and Practice.

Join us!

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The first three days of #inktoberarchitecture have been pretty amazing!

There have already been so many great drawings to inspire creativity! Remember to follow both @lines.and.lettering and @buildingscape for a chance to win a sketchbook from @baronfig

Also remember to jump over to baronfig.com and get yourself a 20% discount with the code Inktober… good for the whole month of October!

#inktober #inktoberarchitecture #sketchbook #drawingarchitecture #architecture

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This past June, the Pratt School of Architecture Dean’s office announced the appointment of Leonel Lima Ponce to the role of Academic Director of the Sustainable Environmental Systems program. Leonel has been the Acting Academic Director for the past four years and will continue to lead the efforts in the program.

Leonel is a Registered Architect in the State of New York, with a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin and over a decade of architectural work. His certifications include a LEED GA, Safety Assessment Program Inspector, and WEDG Professional. Leonel holds a Master of Science in Urban Environmental Systems Management (now MS in SES) from Pratt.

At the GCPE, he teaches the SES Demonstration of Professional Competence course, Advanced Studios, and an International Sustainability Exchange. Leonel participates in several boards, committees, and oalitions, including the SWIM Coalition, LES Ecology Center, US Network for Democracy in Brazil, and the Sustainable Favela Network.

As Academic Director, Leonel looks to build on the legacy of the MS in SES, GCPE, SoA, and Pratt Institute, focusing on community-engaged, sustainable design and development work. At our crossroads of climate and sociopolitical crises, Leonel sees his role as supporting SES faculty and students in facilitating a necessary and Just Transition to more sustainable, collaborative, inclusive, and regenerative futures.

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#BlueCity is a place that embraces the #water. #ThankYou @reti_center for a great #party! #GowanusBay #GBX #pratt #HarborSchool. #SeaweedButter #KelpFarming for a #sustainablefuture

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One of our favorite events during Spring 2023 was walking the Pratt Trail Network lead by Taconic Fellows Professor Ira Stern and our fellow @pratt_ses classmates Harrison Nesbit and Aditi Galande.

Awarded a Taconic Fellowship Grant in Fall 2022, the Pratt Trail Network designed a circular 3.5 mile trail linking Pratt's Brooklyn campus with Fort Greene Park and the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative's (BGI) Naval Cemetery Landscape. The trail invite participants to walk, relax and, if they wish, make observations and collect ecological life-cycle (phenology) data.

This Thursday April 20, Taconic fellows will gather for a design charrette discussing different aspects of the trail. Please join us if you are available and swipe for the details!

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CREATING A COMMUNITY POLLINATION ART PLANTER 🌿🎨🌈💚🤩

We created our first Community Planter in partnership with Apple Art Supplies and in collaboration with ECO-minded grad students from @leap.prattinstitute. We aim to create more Community Planters in the coming year. WE WELCOME ALL STUDENTS! 🌿💚🌿

Check out the full post, as well as the previous building posts on this planter, to find out more about this project. More to come in early 2023 with phase 2 of the painting that will also include a mural that will cover the red brick wall behind the planter. BEAUTIFUL WORK EVERYONE! 🎨💚👏🏽

THANK YOU FOR FOLLOWING 💚😊🙌🏽🌿

GROW FOOD🥬🌶🥦FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE🌍🌄LOVE YOUR PLANTS🌱😍
@samuelsfoodgardens @greengardentruck @pratt_ses @prattgcpe @prattinstitute
#leap.prattinstitute #pratt_ses #prattgcpe #prattinstitute #communitygarden #ecofriendly #sustainableliving #communityunity #healthylifestyle #ecocommunity #youngoriginalgardeners #foodgarden #diy #sustainability #pollination #plants #nature #bees #savethebees #biodiversity #sustainabilityeducation #climateaction #studentled #smallbusiness #art #ecoart #greenspace #brooklyn #nyc

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Join ORLI+ and @liprogress this Saturday, for a reflection workshop on the evolving role or the architect in climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience, and how we might truly support Just Transitions.

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Saturday, 11/05/22
11:00AM - 5:00 PM
LINK IN BIO
Up to 5 AIA LU/HSW/AXP available with registration.

Green Leaders is a half-day education program hosted by AIA Brooklyn, AIA Long Island and AIA Queens—held at the award-winning Jones Beach Energy and Nature Center—explores the ways in which architects can design surroundings to be smarter, healthier, more prosperous, and sustainable. #GreenLeaders2022 #AIA #AIABrooklyn #AIALongIsland #AIAQueens #collaboration

This program is sponsored by Victor, the CNA Insurance Companies, and The AIA Trust, providers of the AIA Trust Professional Liability. Presenting sponsors include: Green Logic, Sherwin Williams, Acuity, Hansgrohe, and Feather Friendly

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It’s been 10 years since #HurricaneSandy. Recent hurricanes make it clear: the time to protect New Yorkers from the effects of future storms in NOW! Use @nyrenews 1-click tool to send a message to @govkathyhochul !

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