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Pratt Institute
critic: Karl CHU with Michelle FOWLER

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Thomas LEE & Gillian SHAFFER: Kantian mysticism? Duality in mind dependence of the human subjectivity inside the absurdity of existence, or the monist, metaphysical fabric supported by the scientific method in search of Truth? Determinism or the stochastic system of choice?

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In this three-week intensive interdisciplinary research project students will work with experts in the fashion, art, architecture and computing to design and fabricate second skins for the human body. Students will develop computational systems alongside material systems that can be deployed as wearable objects.

“New Skins: An Interdisciplinary Research Project” with Francis BITONTI
07/22–08/08 / Digital Arts and Humanities Research Center (DAHRC)
Pratt Institute
61 St. James Place
Brooklyn, New York 10038

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Pratt Institute
critic: Ezio BLASETTI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Sofia XANTHAKOU, Greg LeMAIRE, & Dimitris MOUSTROUFIS: The project is an overall premise concerning an intervention into the conventional city fabric and the repeal of commonly acknowledged truths about urbanism. Arguably ideas about flow, ownership and occupation are the most closely guarded and regulated within a community and therefore are the most in need of confrontation. By imposing adverse conditions and forms on rigid expectations we hope to create a dialogue about an alternative to accepted norms.

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Often described as a neo-Miesian, but one who constantly strives for originality, Eduardo Souto de Moura has achieved much praise for his exquisite use of materials—granite, wood, marble, brick, steel, concrete—as well as his unexpected use of color. Souto de Moura was the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.

eduardo SOUTO DE MOURA
Tuesday, 11/27
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

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Charles Renfro, of the New York architecture firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, is behind New York projects such as the High Line and the recent redesigns for Lincoln Center, as well as Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.

charles RENFRO
Thursday, 11/15
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

Photo: Christopher Griffith.

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Pratt Institute will present a symposium titled “Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism Now,” a panel discussion for the exhibition “Designs for North American Cities Now” (on view at the Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery). The panel discussion will be moderated by Dagmar Richter and will feature Michael Chen, Toni Griffin, Jason Lee, Thom Mayne, Chris Perry, and Laurie Hawkinson.

Architecture and Contemporary Urbanism Now
Thursday, 11/08
6.00 pm / Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn, NY 11238

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

masha PEKUROVSKY: “EcoNET: Project_4 Incorporated” is a design thesis and research project produced during my time as M.Sc.Arch student at Pratt-GAUD. This thesis explores the changes that architecture might undergo in order to be both transformed and built-out into an antidote to the egregiously damaging environmental practices of large utility companies and the insidious pockets of civic planning that allow them.

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sP: Describe your project.

yoko SAIGO: After the nuclear power plant in Fukushima had hydrogen explosion, the land, the water and air include great amount of cesium. There is black fungus funded in Chernobyl which absorb cesium instead of carbon. The architecture device provides the certain condition to cultivate the relationship between fungus and cesium in the site of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. This project proposes a cultivation device that produces an environmental condition by understanding the potential for localized ecosystems.

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Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

hannibal NEWSOM: Shallow Depths is the conceptual development and exploration of possible environments. They exist beyond scale, they express depth without perspective, milieu without subject, and articulation without definition. These intricate displays are mere moments in time drawn from raging vortices of nascent worlds emerging from their primordial sludge. Life seems to lurk just beneath the aether.

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Critic: Ferda Kolatan, Pratt Institute GAUD
Seminar: “Design Finesse”

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

achilleas KAKKAVAS: “A Glimpse of Flow” is an investigation of materiality. Through a series of experimentations on arranging and mixing, material is forced to reveal its characteristics and produce patterns of flow, blending and transformation. Through different photographic technics the creation of ambiguity is achieved. The images are familiar to the eye but enhanced with a blur understanding of the material, process, scale, limit and time.

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