At Cornell AAP, faculty enriches the college’s commitment to academic and creative excellence through research and engaged learning that bridges fields and inspires and supports the development of the next generation. Their work brings critical inquiry, research, design, and imagination to bear on the greatest challenges of our time to build a more just, sustainable, resilient, thriving, and inspired world.
Paper Rights of Nature and the Need for Multi-Level Governance
A special issue in the Journal of Integrated Global STEM by CRP Professor Mildred Warner and Andrés Martínez-Moscoso presents cases where the courts and civil society have attempted to link ecological, social, and political approaches to environmental protection through a new, eco-centric paradigm of rights of nature.
Book Love in a Time of Allegory
The latest book by Art Senior Lecturer and Codirector of the M.F.A. in Image Text and ITI Press Nicholas Muellner asks how we can still feel, desire, and imagine in an age of relentless realism.
Paper Urban Morphology and the Heat Island Effect in African Cities: Evidence From Ghana, Togo, and Tanzania
A paper in Remote Sensing Applications: Society and the Environment by CRP Associate Professor Stephan Schmidt addresses the increasingly urgent concern of urban heat islands (UHI) in rapidly urbanizing regions and examines how urban morphology influences UHI intensity across 388 urban settlements in Ghana, Togo, and Tanzania.
Paper Resisting Imperial Time in Iran
An essay in The Avery Review by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam details how his ongoing research on “realtime” data and surveillance informs his perspective on international conflict.
Paper Revisiting Decorated Sheds and Ducks for Sustainable Building
A paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the ACSA by Architecture Emeritus Professor Jonathan Ochshorn reframes the concepts of decorated sheds and ducks that were first theorized by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour as a more fluid matrix organized along the axes of decoration and distortion, and clarifies how these parameters inform the discussion of sustainable building.
Paper The Missing Urban Dimension in China’s Global Initiatives
A paper in Nature Cities by CRP Assistant Professor Ding Fei examines China’s ambiguous engagement with urban development, and how a framework of cooperation could turn today’s fragmented effects into more coordinated, accountable, and sustainable urban partnerships.
