The prize seeks to celebrate and exhibit student work that engages materials in an innovative manner and considers waste streams as a springboard for new design thinking.

In collaboration with departments across, the Material Lab Prize challenges designers at Pratt to incorporate “waste”, salvaged material, re-purposed waste, or found objects to create a new material, design process, or project. We invite students from any department to submit work. Submissions may include, but are not limited to apparel, architectural models, furnishings, household goods, or speculative projects.