The Sustainable Pratt Committee is proud to announce Green Week 2009, Pratt Institute's third Annual information blitz on Sustainable Design, March 30-April 3. This year the event-packed week will be followed by a Biomimicry Workshop on Saturday April 4, 9:30-4, organized by Jenny Lee, and open to the public.
Student Eco-Reps and members of Envirolution are collaborating with Faculty volunteers to create the biggest and most varied campus-wide celebration of environmental action to date on the Brooklyn campus.
Highlights include displays, films, forums and lectures in Higgins Hall, the Terian Design Center in Pratt Studios, the Pratt Center/ ARC, as well as outdoor events throughout the campus. In addition, the recently formed program, CSDS /Curriculum Studies in Sustainable Design, directed by Debera Johnson, will launch its new sustainable materials research library in the Engineering Building.
Some of the many guest speakers include a design team from FXFOWLE and a representative of the Audubon Society; Bianca Ramsey of the US Green Building Council; designer Brian Collins and architect Kevin Bone, editor of Water-Works and professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union.
This Spring Pratt's greening campus will become an open forum and creative canvas for all who want to learn more and do more to protect our planet and our community.