Pratt Institute

PROJECTS 2022

Revivre

Oksana Ciosek, Janneane Belvins

Revivre is a versatile material made from food and textile waste diverted from landfills.

Instructor 2022

Jean Brennan

Jean Brennan is a professor in the Graduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute. With her students she investigates horizontal structures for learning, making as a form of research, and ecological thinking in design.
As an interdisciplinary thinker, Jean works at the intersection of ecology, language, alchemy, and the body. Recurring themes include a fascination with atmospheric forces, plants, phenomenology, and color. Using the lyrical essay as method, she loosely assembles scientific research and historical and pop culture references with personal reflection to explore our relationship to the natural world, interspecies dependency, and models of resiliency. She uses design to publish, archive, and visually score projects that may include installation, video, sculpture, and performance. In 2021, Jean founded FRUIT&ROT to publish simple but thoughtful zines, broadsheets, field guides, syllabi, and chapbooks centered around art and ecology.

Eric O’Toole BID Industrial Design, MFA Interactive Digital Art