Emmanuel Pratt
Emmanuel Pratt is cofounder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation. His professional and academic work has involved investigations in architecture, urbanization, race/identity, gentrification, and most recently transformative processes of community economic development through intersections of food security and sustainable design innovation. While most of his early work was anchored in the fields of architecture and art, Pratt’s work has since explored the role of art and social praxis as key components of urban design, urban farming, and sustainability with a particular concentration on the creation of a new paradigms for regenerative neighborhood development. Pratt is currently a visiting lecturer at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.