Exhibit Opening - A Decade of Delta Cities: Lessons From Community Engaged Climate Visioning

Join Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Undergraduate Architecture departments, and School of Architecture for our opening reception! This exhibit commemorates and reflects on ten years of community-partnered climate action investigations through the Delta Cities Coastal Resilience [DCCR] studios. DCCR supports local visions that address multi-scalar and intersectional challenges associated with the short- to long-term social, built environment, and urban ecological adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in local and regional waterfront communities.

Hear from community partners, Pratt faculty and alumni, and other participants in this initiative. Remarks will begin at 7:30pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Speakers:

Zehra Kuz

Adjunct Professor - CCE, Pratt Institute Undergraduate Architecture

Co-founder and faculty, Delta Cities Coastal Resilience Studio

Gita Nandan

Adjunct Associate Professor, Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE)

Co-founder and faculty, Delta Cities Coastal Resilience Studio

Leonel Lima Ponce

Academic Director, Pratt Institute MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems

**Additional speakers to be announced. **

Co-Sponsors & Partners:

www.pratt.edu/gcpe

Faced with climate change, systemic racism, and growing inequity, communities need forward-thinking approaches to urbanism now more than ever. Practice-based and rooted deeply in the network of communities we serve, our alliance of four graduate-level programs works to address these evolving threats, working in partnership to build asset-based solutions at the intersection of environment, equity, culture, and economy.

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We see the design, planning, and management of the built environment as tools for addressing the critical issues of our time—from social justice to the climate crisis. As a student at the School of Architecture, you’ll build the skills and knowledge you need to respond to these complex and evolving challenges in a uniquely versatile, innovative, and ethical way. As you do, our goal is to prepare you to lead a life of consequence within each discipline, both today and beyond.

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https://ramp-pratt.org/

RAMP (Recover Adapt Mitigat and Plan) is a Pratt Institute School of Architecture Research Center. Pratt Institute designers, policymakers, and environmentalists are collaborating with front-line waterfront communities in New York City to co-create and accelerate values-based, equitable, innovative, and effective strategies to recover, adapt, mitigate, and plan for the impacts of the climate crisis.

This event is connected to an exhibit celebrating 10 years of Delta Cities Coastal Resilience Studios, partnered studios spanning graduate (GCPE) and undergraduate (UA) departments at Pratt's School of Architectuere.

The exhibit will be open from April 7th through April 24th, 2026 at:

Higgins Hall - Leo J. Kuhn Lobby Gallery

Pratt School of Architecture

61 St. James Place

Brooklyn, NY 11238

The Pratt Institute DCCR teaching team is led by:

Zehra Kuz

Adjunct Professor - CCE, Undergraduate Architecture

Co-founder & faculty, DCCR Studios

Gita Nandan

Adjunct Associate Professor, GCPE

Co-founder & faculty, DCCR Studios

We would also like to thank all of our past Delta Cities Coastal Resilience Studio community, industry, and government partners:

Bronx River Alliance

Evergreen Exchange

Guardians of Flushing Bay

Hackensack Riverkeeper

Newtown Creek Alliance

NYC Economic Development Corporation

NYS Governor’s Office of Resilient Homes and Communities

Resilient Red Hook

RETI Center

RISE (Rockaway)

Rocking the Boat

Science and Resilience Institute of Jamaica Bay

The Point CDC

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