Pratt Institute

Unsettling the case study in gentrification research: Leveraging data science for new geographies of urban theory

Case studies have long been the dominant methodological approach in critical urban theory. But reliance on case studies limits the ability to do systematically comparative research. One alternative is a turn toward data science in critical urban research. Such emerging methods ca...

NeuroChrono: Dissociated Neural Encoding with ChronoGate for Brain-to-Video Diffusion

Reconstructing natural video viewed by a subject from non-invasive neural recordings is a challenging problem at the intersection of computational neuroscience and generative modelling. Existing brain-to-video methods encode multi-modal neural signals (typically fMRI together wit...

Det‐ LIME : Detector‐Aware, Multi‐Instance Local Interpretable Model‐Agnostic Explanations for Automated Marine Mammal Detection

ABSTRACT Despite the rapid uptake of black‐box object detectors in marine mammal research and monitoring, explainability techniques are rarely integrated into conservation workflows. Furthermore, most classification‐oriented explainability tools are ill‐suited to detection tasks...

From Digital Documentation to Rule-Based Regeneration: A Shape Grammar Approach to Decorative Patterns Derived from a Huizhou Chastity Archway, China

The digital preservation of architectural heritage often remains limited to static documentation, with insufficient support for the structured analysis and contemporary reuse of decorative patterns. This study proposes a shape grammar-based digital approach for analyzing, generat...

Review: The Casual: Downplaying Art Since California Conceptualism

Book review of The Casual: Downplaying Art Since California Conceptualism by Jacob Stewart-Halevy. University of Chicago Press, January 2026. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-84394-0 (h/c), $47.50. https://bookshop.org/a/107144/9780226843940.* Reviewed July 2026 by Sophia Albanis; MLIS...

AutoEDA: Enabling EDA Flow Automation through Microservice-Based LLM Agents

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) remains heavily reliant on tool command language (Tcl) scripting to drive complex RTL-to-GDSII flows. This scripting-based paradigm is labor-intensive, error-prone, and difficult to scale across large design projects. Recent advances in large la...