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Wasted x Van Alen – with Pratt Institute

Name: Wasted x Van Alen – with Pratt Institute
Start: 2026-04-07T18:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-04-07T20:00:00.000-04:00
Location: Van Alen Institute

Urban Room @ Van Alen

Van Alen Institute

Kings County, New York

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About Event

Each year, Pratt Institute hosts a public conversation about the status of waste in architecture. This year will focus on the idea of reuse with a maximum economy of means. How can waste be re-thought as architecture with the very least amount of expenditure in terms of energy, labor, and capital? Is there even a zero-degree waste-to-architecture conversion, where the transition from one state to another is almost purely a mental reframing?

Students will exhibit recent work on material re-use at Pratt, including a series of stools used for event seating.

Event Schedule

6 pm: Doors open

6:15 pm: Introduction by Andrew Holder, Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design, Pratt Institute School of Architecture

6:30 pm: Presentations by Xavi Aguirre, Stock-a-Studio; Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb, New Affiliates; and Michael Ortiz Jiménez and Paula Stoddard Sotomayor, Estudio [PM].

7:15 pm: Panel discussion moderated by Pratt Associate Professor Stephanie Bayard

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