The graduate Interior Design program at Pratt, like its undergraduate counterpart, is an architecturally oriented program with emphasis on spatial design as well as surface articulation. All aspects of space-scale, proportion, configuration, and light sources, as well as textures, materials, and colors-are studied in relation to their effects on the life of its occupants. Our MFA enriches the academic experience through emphasis on cultural and technological innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and theoretical and applied research. It is a degree program for students who wish to study interior design as an academic discourse as well as a professional endeavor. The curriculum allows students to develop areas of specialization with concentration options that encourage interdisciplinary work and cross-disciplinary course relationships. Concentrations include emerging technologies, sustainability, exhibition design, theory, and self-directed topics. The MFA allows for expanding the graduate experience and enhancing the student's areas of interest. Students are encouraged to take advantage of the many courses offered at Pratt that will enable them to fully develop their talents. Electives may be chosen from virtually any department in the Institute where an extensive selection of courses is available for individual pursuit. The program culminates in a thesis project developed in the final year of study. Work is done under the direction of thesis advisers and is completed within one year. The thesis provides the greatest possible freedom and opportunity for a student to pursue a selected topic in depth, building on the studies they have undertaken during their time at Pratt.<br><br>By teaching skills, values, and professional knowledge to bright and motivated students from diverse cultural, professional, and educational backgrounds, the Interior Design Department's MFA program enriches the profession of Interior Design. The department's educational community encourages philosophical explorations, ethical responsibility, aesthetic expressions, and practical applications. Our graduates are consummate professionals and innovative practitioners as demonstrated in part by their ability to conceive, problem solve, develop, and complete any given project. With a firm commitment to social and environmental responsibility, the department strives to create interior designers who effectively contribute to culture, through an enhancement of function, health, safety, quality, beauty, and meaning of the human environment.