Pratt Sustainable Environmental Systems

About last night, and the last decade…

As we conclude the exhibit, “A Decade of Delta Cities Coastal Resilience: Lessons From Community Engaged Climate Visioning,” we reflect on these lessons, and look forward to addressing the strengths and challenges of this interdisciplinary, intersectional curriculum at the academic-community nexus.

Thank you to all of the past participants, faculty, students, staff, partners, inspirational leaders, and those who have contributed so much to this ongoing collective journey to imagine and implement more just and climate adaptive futures.

A special thank you to those of you who were able to engage in yesterday’s first Lessons from Delta Cities Studios workshop, as we seek to listen and learn from the experiences, impacts, and challenges of all involved in addressing the intractable challenges of climate change, sea level rise, coastal storms, and historic environmental and socioeconomic injustice in our waterfront communities.

Thank you to our incredible panelists and moderator Juan Camilo Osorio, who shared these lessons and their personal and collective experiences to a public audience.

Thank you to our guiding lights and originators of this initiative in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Ron Shiffman, Deborah Gans, and Jaime Stein.

Thank you to those who who produced and installed the exhibit, working tirelessly to bring together ten (and more) years of history and collaboration across silos - and archives!

And thank you to co-conspirators and coordinators of the Delta Cities Coastal Resilience Studio, Gita Nandan and Zehra Kuz. It is through their leadership and that of their co-instructors that this project can exist, and build upon our collective legacy of community-engaged, visionary climate responsive curriculum.

Join us and keep the conversation and collaboration going, for another decade, and decades of continuing struggle, creative collaboration, progress, and thriving waterfront communities.

On Monday, May 4th, join us for the second group of graduating MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems, degree-concluding client-engaged applied research Capstone presentations!

Monday, May 4th
5:30-7:30pm EDT

Sher Gallo Netto
Dhruvin Thakkar
Sam Asher

Presentations are open to the public and will be held in hybrid (in person + virtual) format. The presentations will be held in person at Higgins Hall (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11238), room HHN 406B, on our Pratt Brooklyn campus, and will be broadcast virtually through Zoom.

Zoom registration via links in bio. To register for in person attendance, email [email protected] .

Join us to see student research rooted in action, collaboration, and impact. Each project represents months of in-depth, client-connected exploration into sustainability challenges across affordable renewable energy financing, waterfront community development, floating structure permitting, sports infrastructure and community resilience, urban soil and street trees, and more.

As we celebrate Earth Day, we look forward to next Friday, when our first group of Spring 2026 graduating MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems students will present their degree-concluding, client-engaged applied research Capstone projects.

Friday, May 1st
5:30-8:00pm EDT

Anthony Pi’ikawenaokaua’i Cowell
Sanya Jain
Riya Shah
Jen Hung

Presentations are open to the public and will be held in hybrid (in person + virtual) format. The presentations will be held in person at Higgins Hall (61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY, 11238), room HHN 406B, on our Pratt Brooklyn campus, and broadcast virtually through Zoom.

See link in bio for Zoom registration, and contact [email protected] for in person attendance.

Join us to see student research rooted in action, collaboration, and impact. Each project represents months of in-depth, client-connected exploration into sustainability challenges across affordable renewable energy financing, waterfront community development, floating structure permitting, sports infrastructure and community resilience, urban soil and street tree , and more.

This Pratt Earth Action Week, join Leaders in Environmental Advocacy at Pratt and Pratt’s Sustainable Environmental Systems program for a timely documentary screening and discussion!
Abby Martin’s new documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy, shines an important light on the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions; and the huge global policy gap in addressing our climate crisis - the U.S. military. Throughout the UNFCCC’s annual conferences of the parties (COP), militaries have been exempt from our global climate accords. This has been the case from Berlin’s COP1 in 1995 to COP30 in Brazil this past December; and it has caused huge environmental impacts. Today, the United States military is the world’s largest military, it is also the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases. From the wars waged to the emissions from fighter jets, burn pits, aircraft carriers, tanks, and more. All these activities come with steep environmental and climate costs for local communities and us all.
The film will be screened, followed by a talk with the director. Light refreshments will be served.
Saturday, April 11th
3:00pm-6:00 EDT
Pratt Library - Alumni Reading Room
Pratt Institute - Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205

Registration required via the link in bio! Directions and campus map will be sent to registrants.

Thank you to the Pratt Sustainability Center for its support of this and every Pratt Earth Action Week!

This Pratt Earth Action Week, join Leaders in Environmental Advocacy at Pratt, City Atlas, Pratt’s Sustainable Environmental Systems program and its Alumni Council for a fun and Energetic Game Night!
We will introduce participants to the general principles and state of energy generation, transmission, regulation, advocacy and use in New York City, and then play a game of Energetic, a future-thinking board game where we navigate future scenarios for The City and region’s energy future, with a goal of reducing carbon emissions and improving access to power and the resilience of our grid.
Light refreshments will be served.
Friday, April 10th
5:00pm-8:00 EDT
Pratt Sustainability Center (ENG 001)
Pratt Institute - Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205

Registration required via the link in bio! Directions and campus map will be sent to registrants.

Thank you to the Pratt Sustainability Center for its support of this and every Pratt Earth Action Week!

This Pratt Earth Action Week, join Pratt’s Sustainable Environmental Systems program and its Microclimate Assessment for Urban Design class for a participatory walk in North Brooklyn, to uncover relationships between design, microclimate, heat, and health.
NYC summers are already hot and getting hotter; it is imperative that we design cities that are livable for everyone. Join North Brooklyn Parks Alliance and Pratt Institute’s MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems program to discover how city features—from the material used to pave a street to the paint color chosen for a wall—impact the microclimates we experience on just one neighborhood block. On this guided walk in and around McGolrick Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, we will measure and sense urban heat perceptions and reflect on how to design a habitable city for human and non-human residents. We will also explore how McGolrick Park’s tree canopy can support community wellbeing now and in the future. Participants will gain hands-on experience with thermal comfort assessment techniques.
Tuesday, April 7th
12:00pm-2:30pm EDT
Msgr. McGolrick Park
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY

Registration required via the link in bio!

This walkshop is references the work of a Taconic Fellowship grant from the Pratt Center for Community Development.

We are still accepting applications for Fall 2026 enrollment in the Masters of Science in Sustainable Environmental Systems at Pratt Institute, and for our Advanced Certificate.

📆 The next priority application deadline is Thursday, March 5th.

For more information about our programs and the application process, or to sign up for a meeting with the Academic Director to discuss your interests, see the links in bio.

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Registration is required. Link in bio!

📽️A film documentary screening — free and open to the public — followed by a panel discussion focused on the privatization of public housing. Panel discussion consists of public housing and land rights advocates.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
6:00 PM doors open
6:30 PM film screening

Higgins Hall Auditorium
61 Saint James Place
Brooklyn NY 11238

Panelists:
• Renee Keitt, President, Elliott-Chelsea Resident Association; FEC Tenants Against Demolition
• ​​Marquis Jenkins, District Leader, NYS Assembly District 74;
• ​​James Rodriguez, Public housing scholar; Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Moderated by Natasha Florentino, Filmmaker

A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea
Through the eyes of longtime residents fighting to save their homes, A Home Worth Fighting For, exposes a flawed political process that prioritizes private developers over the preservation of public housing and dismisses calls for transparency. While pitched as resident-driven, the proposed demolition clearly aims to clear valuable land in Chelsea to make way for market rate development on public land. Determined to defend their community, residents organize to resist a profit-driven plan aimed at privatizing public housing.

Natasha Florentino (director, producer, and co-director of photography), Oliver Metzler (co-director of photography), and Jason Alarcòn (editor). Run Time: 40 min.

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📽️A film documentary screening — free and open to the public — followed by a panel discussion focused on the financialization of public housing. Panel discussion consists of public housing and land rights advocates.

Thursday, February 19th, 2026,
6:00 PM doors open
6:30 PM film screening

Pratt Manhattan, room 201
144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 1001

Panelists :
Renee Keitt, President, Elliott-Chelsea Resident Association; FEC Tenants Against Demolition
Layla Law-Gisiko, District Leader, NYS Assembly District 75
Rob Robinson, Adjunct Professor of Urbanism, New School; Community Organizer & Advocate
Chris Marte, NYC Councilmember, Manhattan District 1

Moderated by Natasha Florentino, Filmmaker

Register via link in bio!

A HOME WORTH FIGHTING FOR: The Push to Stop the Demolition of Public Housing in Chelsea
Through the eyes of longtime residents fighting to save their homes, A Home Worth Fighting For, exposes a flawed political process that prioritizes private developers over the preservation of public housing and dismisses calls for transparency. While pitched as resident-driven, the proposed demolition clearly aims to clear valuable land in Chelsea to make way for market rate development on public land. Determined to defend their community, residents organize to resist a profit-driven plan aimed at privatizing public housing.
Natasha Florentino (director, producer, and co-director of photography), Oliver Metzler (co-director of photography), and Jason Alarcòn (editor). Run Time: 40 min.