Events

1/22–2/19 AAP Engagement Impact Grant Workshops

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

2/10–2/27 Lauren Greene and Zeiad Amin: Textiles, Decoded

Experience an interactive exhibition that explores cultural aesthetics as perceived by the machine.

2/17–2/27 Kate James: Celebration, Florida

Explore an exhibition that draws inspiration from the Southern Gothic subgenre to shed light on the complex issue of natural displacement and the shifting landscape of Orlando, Florida.

2/17–2/27 Ruth Martinez Yepes: El papel aguanta todo

Observe an exhibition that constitutes a representation of how to approach data from traumatic experiences while constantly iterating on questioning the entanglement between embodiment, data, and automation.

2/21 Julian Hartman: Controversy in Cambridge — Planning Kendall Square

Hear a lecture that traces controversies in the 1960s and 1970s over the purpose of Kendall Square and the future of Cambridge.

2/25 Carla Liesching: Mythmaking Machines

Attend a lecture that considers the central questions animating the speaker's work: How does photography shape our ideologies and practices? How do images create concrete conditions? How can artists disrupt power?

2/28 Xuanyi Nie: Statecraft, Speculation, and the Territorialized Healthcare Infrastructures

Attend a lecture exploring the political economy of healthcare infrastructures in China.

3/3–3/13 Faye Pamintuan and Yun Hsiang (Sandy) Wang: To the Very Edge

Experience an exhibition of work that explores elements that tether a person to domestic spaces, feelings of intimacy, and familiarity with their environment.

3/4 Trevor Paglen: You've Just Been F$%^#d by PSYOPs

Hear a talk from an artist, filmmaker, and technologist who explores a history of secret military and intelligence programs that serve as antecedents to a phantasmagoric present.

3/6–4/10 Resilience by Design: Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Join a compelling lecture series featuring architectural historians, design practitioners, visionaries, and community stakeholders as they explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of community-engaged design.

3/7 Voices from the Grassroots: Slum Dwellers International Experiences on Urban Development and Institutional Dynamics

Attend a panel discussion centered around a paper that explores the lived realities of slum communities amidst urban development initiatives and complex institutional dynamics.

3/14 Lynn M. Ross: Making the Connection — Urbanism, Civic Life, and Democracy

Attend a lecture that explores the critical role that urbanists can play in supporting engagement in civic life and democratic practice.

3/19 AAP Launchpad: Spring 2025

Join us for a special AAP event showcasing recent books written and edited by Cornell AAP faculty.

3/20 Tamar Ettun: How to Trap a Demon

Join Teiger Mentor in the Arts Tamar Ettun as she discusses her textile installations, sculptures, drawings, videos, and performances that reflect on somatic empathy in relation to trauma healing and ritual.

3/21 Virtual CRP Graduate Open House for Admitted Students, Spring 2025

Learn more about the unique opportunities available to our City and Regional Planning students, meet our faculty, and ask questions of current students.

3/21 Thomas Gillespie: Affordable Housing, Financialization and Urban Statecraft

Attend a lecture that examines affordable housing production as a site through which state actors engage with financialization processes to different extents with a view to addressing housing needs.

3/3 Francesco Garofalo: Usually Unnoticed

Attend a lecture that touches upon the role of multilayered observation as a tool to uncover hidden conditions and develop a deep interest in what is often overlooked or unnoticed, fostering active participation and creating spaces of desire.

4/10 Melissa Catanese: Artist Talk

Attend a lecture that offers insight into the thought processes behind the speaker's work, exploring how intuition, memory, and personal experience inform her approach to image-making and sequencing.

4/11 Nataya Friedan: Climate Change and the Labor of Forgetting in Houston

Hear a lecture that follows civil servants, activists, politicians, and businesspeople as they grapple with climate change evidence in an oil industry town.

4/18 Daniel Agbiboa: Does Africa Need Elite Cities?

Join a lecture that examines Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, Nigeria, as a manifestation of worlding-cities, critiquing how such megaprojects amplify socio-spatial inequalities and ecological precarity.

4/23 Craig Robins and Jackie Soffer: Entrepreneurship at the Intersection of Art and Real Estate

See a lecture that offers insight into two entrepreneurial careers followed by an interactive workshop with students.

4/24 Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Symposium:
Climate Resilience in New York City

The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will host an in-person symposium on climate resilience in New York City. The one-day event will focus on actions to mitigate risks to people, buildings, and infrastructure from extreme weather.

4/25 Andrés Blanco: Urban Infrastructure in the Amazon Basin, Challenges and Opportunities

Attend a lecture that describes the ongoing effort to understand the challenges and opportunities associated with accelerated urbanization processes and their impacts on Amazonia's critical ecosystems and sustainability.

5/2 Marisa Turesky: Locating Lesbian Lives — Holistic Housing in a Compassionate City

Listen to a lecture that demonstrates the gendered and queer pathways toward health justice and community development over time by applying a queer-feminist lens to the frameworks for aging-in-place