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Category Archives: Industry Projects
Tumi Project
What’s the eco-footprint of a piece of luggage? This past Fall, CSDS partnered with TUMI, the high-end luggage designer, to conduct an assessment of the environmental impact of a rolling bag and a computer bag. Four Pratt interns from the … Continue reading
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Urbarn – The Great Googamooga
A group of seven Pratt undergraduate and graduate students, under the guidance of Mark Parsons, production director and adjunct assistant professor in the undergraduate architecture program, collaborated to design one of the showpiece exhibition spaces for last month’s Great GoogaMooga … Continue reading
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UN Millennium Village Project
The CSDS partnered with the Earth Institute and the UN Millennium Village Project (UNMV) to develop a set of training tools for a new “strata” of community health care worker – local high school graduates. The goal was to train … Continue reading
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west elm Technology in the Home
2012-west elm along with designing hope studio and a team from Pratt Institute worked to develop furniture concepts for the way people use and live with technology. Students conducted research to better understand existing and emerging trends around technology use … Continue reading
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Sustainable South Bronx
Sustainable South Bronx Project Documentary from Pratt CSDS on Vimeo. September, 2009 The Pratt Design Incubator (a division of CSDS) partnered with Sustainable South Bronx (SSBX), a community organization dedicated to Environmental Justice solutions, to design a series of street … Continue reading
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LAB on a Chip
Client: Dr. Samuel Sia; School of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University Project: To design a processor for a high tech HIV testing device for clinical diagnostics in rural areas. Design research team worked in multiple areas in Rwanda with clinic doctors … Continue reading
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west elm Sustainable Office Project
In May 2009, the Pratt Design Incubator partnered with the home furnishing company west elm to design and produce a line of sustainable home office furniture. For eight weeks during June and July, a 12 recent graduates, led by Pratt … Continue reading
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