Events

9/9–9/19 Willem Schreiber: Cave Country

Explore the geology and vernacular of North central Florida.

9/9–9/19 Sophie Goldstein: Tailbone

View an exhibition that explores and displays the manipulation of permanent materials into organic forms

9/9–9/19 Kacey Kim: A Wet, Hot, American Summer

Visit an exhibition that depicts the systemic racism that exists within American society through a yellow figure living a rural, Middle-American life.

9/9 Regina José Galindo: Body of Work / Cuerpo de Trabajo

Attend a lecture by the artist, who will present her work based on the conflict in her home country of Guatemala.

9/12 Christiana Moss: Lessons from the Desert — Studio Ma

Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design Christiana Moss will explore the four desert-inflected lenses through which her firm Studio Ma approaches each project.

9/17 Building Rarify: Born-Digital Design Practice in the Era of the Algorithm

Hear a lecture that shares the journey from design computation research in cutting-edge environments to operating one of the world's largest collections of rare furniture design.

9/17 Nicholas Muellner: Love in a Time of Allegory

Hear a talk that mingles the artist's recent photographs with historical artworks and contemporary media images to argue for an urgent return to allegory in the contemporary moment.

9/23–10/3 Stanley Cho, Elisa Iturbe, Alican Taylan: Confronting Carbon Form

View an exhibition that offers a vocabulary for "carbon form," identifying its physical characteristics while highlighting its historical and cultural underpinnings.

9/23 The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom - Who, Really, Were India's Anti-colonial Raj Fighters

Join P. Sainath, cohosted by CRP Professor Neema Kudva, for a lecture on the overlooked contributions of ordinary Indians to the freedom struggle and the impact of British colonialism.

9/24 Marcelo Coelho: The Design of Physical Intelligence

Attend a lecture delivered by Marcelo Coelho, director of the Design Intelligence Lab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

9/25 2024 L. Michael Goldsmith Lecture featuring Kim Yao

Attend a talk delivered by Kim Yao from the New York City-based firm Architecture Research Office.

9/26 Irma Boom: Book Activist – Boom on Books

Visit a talk that explores the evolving craft of bookmaking and its enduring relevance in today's increasingly digital world.

9/27 P. Sainath: Migrants and the Moral Economy of the Urban Elite

Join us for an enlightening lecture that explores the unprecedented reverse migration during the COVID-19 pandemic in India and its implications for urbanization and equitable city planning.

10/3 Pamela Sneed: America is Ready

Listens to a poetic presentation from Teiger Mentor in the Arts Pamela Sneed about the vital role arts play in the culture, predicated on Audre Lorde's Poetry is not a Luxury.

10/4 Baye Adofo-Wilson: Building Resilient Black Communities: A Working Experience

Visit a presentation that provides insight into the multiple types of work and activities urban planning students can use to improve their respective communities.

10/9 Real Estate Leaders to Speak at Cornell Entrepreneur Network Presentaion

Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate Chair Stuart Rosenthal and Director of the Baker Real Estate Program Cody Allen Danks Burkean will join Cornell alumn to share their expertise, insights, and vision for the future.

10/18 Kristina Hill: Hybrid Strategies for Adapting to Sea Level Rise in Cities

Visit a lecture that presents international history and strategies for adaptation that take into account the newest scientific findings about rising coastal groundwater.

10/22 Samuel Leder: Addressing Architecture in Collective Robotic Construction

Attend a lecture by Samuel Leder from the Institute for Computational Design and Construction within the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture at the University of Stuttgart.

10/25 Rafael Prieto-Curiel: Urban Forms and its Impacts on Car Dependency

Listen to a talk about the severe challenges of cars in the city due to the resources they need, the lifestyle they promote, and the byproducts they generate.

10/29 Daniel Leithinger: Designing Future Shape-Changing Computer Interfaces

Attend a lecture by Daniel Leithinger, Design Tech Innovation Fellow at Cornell University.

10/29 Nicole Eisenman: Talk Without a Title

Join Nicole Eisenman, who will deliver an address as the fall 2024 guest speaker for the John A. Cooper Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

11/1 Andres Martinez-Moscoso: Heritage, Healthy Environment, Rights to the City, and Rights of Nature

Listen to a talk on the past usage of rivers and streams as garbage dumps and the 21st-century demand for the recovery of these spaces.

11/8 Peter Little: Centering Anthropology, Art, and Advocacy in Ghana's E-Wastescape

Attend a lecture that explores the ongoing nexus of electronic waste, environmental health science, urban policy, and creative intervention in Agbogbloshie, Ghana,

11/11 & 11/12 Leigh Ledare: Artist Lecture and Film Screening

Attend a lecture and film screening, providing a comprehensive look at numerous projects, key themes, and approaches running as a throughline across his photographs, films, and other works.

11/15 Donielle Lovell: Envisioning Development and Planning in Tribal Nations

Hear a talk that focuses on the community-centered asset perspective of development and planning in tribal nations rather than the deficit viewpoint that is often taken.

11/21 Sharon Louden: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life

Attend a lecture that explores what it means to be a contemporary artist today via the speaker's own work and the work of other creative individuals.

11/22 Jeff Cody: New Building in Old Cities

Visit a lecture that centers on the largely forgotten architectural work of Gustavo Giovannoni, who promoted a scientific approach to architectural restoration and rehabilitation.