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Jennifer Minner
Jennifer Minner, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She directs the Just Places Lab, a platform for research and creative action on how communities care for, preserve, reuse, repair, remember, and imagine places. Minner's research investigates urban change and memory in a variety of contexts and media, from research on building circular cities through preservation and material reuse, to the spatial footprints and social legacies of mega-events (e.g., World Expos and the Olympic Games), to future land use scenarios and spatial analytics, to the reflections of the city in art and film. Minner cofounded the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) network...
Felix Heisel
Felix Heisel is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He is a faculty fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and a graduate field member in architecture, systems engineering, and matter design computation. Heisel is a licensed architect in Germany and partner of 2hs Architekten und Ingenieur PartGmbB, an office specializing in the development of circular prototypologies. Heisel's scholarship focuses on a systemic redesign of the built environment as a material depot of endless use and reconfiguration...
David Costanza
David Costanza is the principal of David Costanza Studio (DCS), a design-build practice based in Ithaca, New York. Costanza is also an assistant professor at Cornell University AAP and director of the Building Construction Lab (BCL). Through practice, research, and teaching, his work questions the linearity of design processes, defining new terrains for architectural interventions across scales while establishing a dialogue between representation, computational design tools, digital manufacturing, building science, building materials, construction, labor, and the environment. Currently, he is working on a book project with Routledge publishers titled "Curious Constructions: Around Materials, Labor, and the Environment," a deep-energy low-carbon reconstruction in Ithaca, New York...
Marta H. Wisniewska
Marta H. Wisniewska is an architect and urban planner whose research and teaching promote alternative building materials and investigate their applications in local building sectors in developed and developing territories. Wisniewska is a Lecturer and the Director of the Regenerative Architecture Lab at Cornell AAP. The lab is primarily a space for research and hands-on experimentation with cultivated and regenerative alternative building materials that positively impact the natural environment as well as the health of users, manufacturers, and builders...
Eduardo Cilleruelo Terán
Eduardo Cilleruelo Terán is a New York/Madrid-based architect and educator. Since July 2023, he has held the position of Design Teaching Fellow at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University. As part of his research and practice, he has been committed to the analysis of infrastructural relationships under the canopy of data management and its consequences in the architectural realm. Recently, he was awarded with the Prize of Excellence (Space Group, Seoul, November 2022) for his studies of data civicness and urban possibilities in vertical public connectors in New York City...
