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 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.
Project Simulation as Reenactment, the Construction of Minga
Design Tech Associate Professor Jose Sanchez’s paper introduces Minga, a multiplayer simulation that reimagines Chiloé’s house-pulling ritual to explore cultural preservation and the dynamics of cooperation.
Paper Voxel Shader – An Efficient Shadow Calculation Approach For Urban Building Energy Modeling
Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Amber Su (B.Arch. ’25) introduce a voxel-based ray-tracing method that efficiently computes sunlit fractions for urban surfaces using point cloud or mesh data without the requirement for manual geometry simplification.
Stories Redesigned Fire Gear Offers Potentially More Cooling, Less Toxicity
Associate Professor of Apparel Design in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) and Design Tech faculty Heeju Park and graduate students in his lab interviewed more than 50 firefighters as part of a yearlong project to develop more versatile firefighting gear.
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Near Liberty Bell, Public Art Lets Freedom Ring for US at 250
Professor and Chair of Art Paul Ramírez Jonas’s installation Let Freedom Ring invites visitors to complete the melody of “America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee)” and reflect on ideas of freedom in the context of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Project Bio-Based Materials Collective 2026
During the 2026 summit convenings, Architecture Lecturer Marta H. Wisniewska gave a talk addressing the construction sector’s heavy impact on the environment, highlighting key research into sustainable alternatives, and led a workshop on the emerging field of mycelium-based building materials.
Exhibition At Sixes and Sevens: Sculpture at the Bundy Modern
Assistant Professor of Art Oscar Rene Cornejo is a featured artist at this group exhibition which highlights site-specific works for the grounds and interior gallery space at the Bundy Modern.
Paper Rethinking the Governance of Property Can Help Communities Adapt to Climate Change
An article at Brookings coauthored by CRP Associate Professor and Cornell Atkinson Senior Faculty Fellow Linda Shi examines how current systems of property and land governance limit how well communities can respond to the threats of climate change.
Paper The Fiction of Neutrality
Professor of Architecture Esra Akcan contributed an essay to Global Neutral, an exhibition catalog that embarks on an architectural search for traces in postcolonial contexts through the documentation of buildings and projects by Austrian architects in African and Asian countries between 1955 and 1989.
Book Walls Wearing Worlds
This full-color catalog documents Art Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin’s solo site-specific exhibition at Ortega y Gasset Projects in 2025, with a curatorial essay by Eric Hibit and an interview between Jodi Hays and Meksin.
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.
