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An Open Invitation: AAP's Spring 2025 Semester Highlights

With the start of a new semester comes a fresh opportunity to engage with AAP colleagues and guests, explore concepts on campus and in the field, and find inspiration in the work and ideas on display at every turn.

A Q&A with Design Tech Department Chair Jenny Sabin

Design Tech chair Jenny Sabin shares how the department blends design and emerging tech, preparing students to tackle challenges like sustainability and space exploration through robotics, AI, and more.

Art Faculty Jen de los Reyes and Oscar Rene Cornejo Awarded 2025 Creative Capital Project Grant

The unrestricted funding will support their work LAND, a site of education, research, cultivation, care, and conservation.

Reimagining Informal Housing in Mathare, Kenya

Negotiating the challenges of safe, reliable, and affordable housing, Cornell AAP architecture and planning students collaborated with Slum Dwellers International and local residents to explore alternative housing design and construction strategies for Mathare, an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya.

AAP Engagement Impact Grant Workshops, January 22–February 19

Attend an informational session or workshop about the AAP Engagement Impact Grants available for faculty and students in Spring 2025.

AAP Engagement Impact Grants

As one of Cornell's engaged colleges, AAP is offering Engagement Impact Grant opportunities to AAP students and faculty in three areas where they can develop and deepen our shared understanding of what engagement as a common practice means within, across, and for our disciplines. Applications due March 7.