Mission and Vision
Students of the Pratt Institute will work in professions that shape the built environment, influence material culture, and affect everyday life for millions of people. In the face of growing awareness about issues such as air and water pollution, health risks from chemicals, fossil fuel depletion and climate change, innovations are underway in a burgeoning revolution in design. These innovations include carbon-neutral buildings, landscapes that promote water conservation and stormwater management, design for recycling, products with recycled content, and fabrication and construction processes that minimize waste and energy consumption. Graduates of art, design and architecture programs should be exposed to the practices associated with this transformation.
Objectives Curriculum & Teaching
- Facilitate communication among faculty and students interested in sustainability issues.
- Develop avenues for cross-departmental interaction.
- Through a website and accessible databases, provide the Pratt community and others faculty students with information about curricular and operations-related initiatives across the Pratt campus and on other campuses that relate to the goal of reducing humans’ ecological footprint.
- Integrate sustainability principles into existing courses and curricula and encourage new courses that further the organization’s mission.
- Identify and pursue funding opportunities for interdisciplinary and collaborative projects.
Campus - Generate awareness of sustainability issues among faculty, students and staff.
- Create and publicize public events on campus that will provide information and spark enthusiasm concerning sustainable design and planning.
- Identify and publicize sustainable initiatives currently taking place in campus operations and facilities and encourage the incorporation of additional sustainable practices.
- Facilitate collaboration with community organizations.
Who We Are
Sustainable Pratt is a group of faculty, administrators, students and staff of Pratt Institute from a variety of disciplines including art, design, architecture, planning, and science who have been meeting monthly since October 2005. Sustainable Pratt is dedicated to identifying, interpreting, inspiring, incorporating and instituting ecologically responsible practices into curricula, operations and programs at Pratt Institute. The group meets monthly – in 2007-08, on the first Wednesday of each month in the small faculty dining room in North Hall. The 2007-2008 coordinator is Damon Chaky, a faculty member in the Department of Math and Science and a faculty affiliate in the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. Sustainable Pratt has been supported through the Faculty Development Fund and the Academic Senate.
Members
Cathey Billian,Adjunct Professor, Billianstudio, environmental structures and photographic works; Director, Wild America- initiatives in environmental interpretation & public art for parks
Meta Brunzema, Adjunct Assistant Professor & Coordinator of the Graduate Urban Design Program and Principal, Meta Brunzema Architect P.C.
Joan Byron, Director, Sustainability & Environmental Justice Initiative, Pratt Center for Community Development
Anthony Caradonna, Design and History Professor and Architect/Co-founder AC2 Studio Inc / NYC-Roma
Myrel Chernick, Adjunct Associate Professor, 4-D (Foundation)
Annie Clark, Student, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment Amanda Clelland, Senior Art Direction Student, Dorm Reycling Program
Dr. Damon Chaky, Assistant Professor, Department of Math and Science
Carol Crawford, Adj. Asst. Prof. Interior Design and Principal at Carol Crawford Environments, Inc. www.ccenvironments.com
Joelle Danant, Academic Director and Visiting Instructor the Center for Continuing and Professional Studies
Tony Gelber, Co-Chair of Sustainability at Pratt Institute Eva Hanhardt, Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and Coordinator of the Environmental Systems Management Program
Debera Johnson, Director, Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable/ Social Enterprise and Academic Director of Sustainability at Pratt Institute
Preston Johnson, NYC Outreach Coordinator - NYSERDA ENERGY $mart Communities at the Pratt Center for Community Development
Jenny Lee, Professor of Art and President of the Pratt Faculty Senate
Francine Monaco, Associate Professor of Design and Prinicipal, D'AquinoMonaco
Dr. Chuck Münster, Director of the Pratt Center for Continuing and Professional Studies Mark C. Parsons, Director of Production and Technology for Pratt Institute Architecture
Richard Scherr, Director of Facilities Planning and Design, Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture
Jaime Stein Sustainable Pratt Webmaster. Masters Candidate in Urban Environmental Management Systems E. Perry Winston, R.A., LEED TM AP, Architectural Director at the Pratt Center for Community Development
Ayse Yonder, Professor, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
Contact us at info@sustainablepratt.org
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