Events

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.

3/3–3/13 Josephine Cosmosse: Invisible Hands

Experience an exhibition showcasing installations, drawings, poems, short stories, and more created in collaboration with incarcerated individuals.

3/3–3/21 Guorun Yang: Linqing Tribute Bricks: Kiln Fires, Canal Memories

View a display detailing Linqing tribute bricks, an ancient building material produced for Beijing's imperial architecture.

3/3–3/13 Kaitlin Ganshaw: Missing Connection

View an exhibition that combines text-based works, painting, digital media, and interactive installations to explore the tension between memory and disappearance, permanence and erasure.

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.

3/11 Thomas Phifer: Glenstone Museum, The Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, and TR Warszawa Theatre

Sit in on a presentation of three major cultural projects: the Glenstone Museum, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, and TR Warszawa Theatre, followed by a discussion with AAP faculty and a Q&A with the audience.

3/12 Skylar Tibbits: Self-Assembly Lab: Experiments in Programming Matter

Attend a lecture by Skylar Tibbits that explores how materials can be programmed to change shape, adapt, and transform over time in response to environmental stimuli such as heat, temperature, moisture, ocean waves, and even lava flows.

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.

3/17–3/21 Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee: The Radical Rural

View an exhibition examining the resurgence of collective farms in New York with a special closing reception.

3/17–3/27 The Incubates: synchronize!

Explore the result of ten artists thinking about time as physical forms in space and learning how their personal internal clocks interact with the time of others

3/17 Antonio Raciti: Embracing the Unfamiliar: Bridging Knowledge and Action through International Planning Pedagogy

Attend a lecture about ridging Knowledge and Action through International Planning Pedagogy.

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 Matteo Garrone: Io Capitano Film Screening and Q&A with the Director

View a screening of the film Io Capitano, a modern-day odyssey from the perspective of migrants, reversing the typical Western viewpoint to amplify their voices, followed by a Q&A with the director.

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 business people 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