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Creative and Critical Practices

Lost in a Thousand Leaves with Luca Padroni

Italian artist and long-time Cornell in Rome visiting critic Luca Padroni reflects on his creative practice and current solo exhibition, La Vida Continua, at the Museo Orto Botanico della Sapienza Universita di Roma. The series is Padroni's depiction of the human condition across time and in relation to the natural world.

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Social Equity and Engagement

Stories Last Longer Than Symbols

With their contribution to the 2021 Bruges Triennial, Who is Afraid of Natasha?, Art Professor of the Practice Joanna Malinowska and collaborator C.T. Jasper re-imagine urban space, re-open histories, and bring a monument (back) to life.

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Lecture

Manal Aboelata: Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power, October 15

Join Manal Aboelata, in sharing ways past public health successes can be applied to efforts in ensuring low-income urban communities are fair, just, and green.

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Creative and Critical Practices

Depth of Field: Tao DuFour on We Love We Self Up Here

Cornell AAP presents the first iteration of Depth of Field, a short video with Assistant Professor Tao DuFour, architecture, who discusses his transdisciplinary, collaborative film that captures labor, migration, and landscape in Trinidad and Tobago through the history, experiences, and stories of a small group of people.

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Urbanism and Development

Political Partisanship in Transportation Overshadows Strong Overall Support for Reform

An op-ed in The Hill coauthored by CRP's Nicholas Klein explains his research showing that while the nation is divided by partisanship, most Americans agree the transportation system isn't working and want change.

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Lecture

J. Yolande Daniels: Building | Un-Building, October 20

In the presentation Building | UnBuilding, J. Yolande Daniels provides a brief view of an architecture practice that bridges architecture with critical and social theories, systems thinking, and historical narratives.

Creative and Critical Practices

Lost in a Thousand Leaves with Luca Padroni

Lecture

Manal Aboelata: Changing the Landscape: People, Parks, and Power, October 15

Join Manal Aboelata, in sharing ways past public health successes can be applied to efforts in ensuring low-income urban communities are fair, just, and green.

Urbanism and Development