Stories
Five Ways To Make Sustainability A Resolution
Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, architecture, recommends a shift in the way we design, build and manage our built environment, from linear resource consumption to circular material usage. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Arts Quad Installation Upcycles Wood With Mixed Reality
Assistant Professor Leslie Lok and her Rural-Urban Innovation (RUBI) Lab used mixed-reality technologies and holographic visualization to process and construct with upcycled barn wood and plywood. In the Cornell Chronicle.
CRP's Design Connect, 13 Years of Student-Led Upstate New York Impact
Design Connect participants and leaders reflect on over a decade of successful projects and the organization's unique benefit to students from various disciplines, who collaborate among themselves and with groups across the Upstate New York area.
Cornell's First Laidlaw Scholars Research, Lead
Maiko Sein (B.Arch. '23) is one of three Cornell scholars in an intercollegiate program launched this year to support ethical leadership and international research. In the Cornell Chronicle.
Ithaca Launches City-Wide Decarbonization, Partners with Climate Startup and Cornellians
Assistant Professor Felix Heisel, architecture, is quoted in Cornell Daily Sun coverage of the City of Ithaca's carbon-neutral plan. Heisel's Cornell Circular Construction Lab consulted on the proposal that was passed this fall.
Department of Art at 100: New Leadership, Faculty, and Practice
As AAP's Department of Art marks its centennial, times past meet times to come with recent transitions in leadership and a renewed emphasis on faculty mentorship. In Art & Education.
Migration Roundtable Discusses Indigenous Displacement, Racism
The Cornell Daily Sun reports Associate Professor Jolene Rickard, Art and History of Art and Visual Studies, gave a presentation on the power of visual media to express the complexities of both Indigenous resistance and colonial violence.
Revealing Climate Change Inequities, Redress, and Environmental Justice
CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi discusses her timely research on populations vulnerable to climate change injustices and the planning discipline's critical contributions to the global discussion on adaptation and the future of cities.
Helena Rong: Potentials for Surgical Urbanism
Actar's urbanNext has published a project by Helena Rong (B.Arch. '17) on urban development in Sao Paolo, excerpted from Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear edited by Associate Professor Val Warke. CJOA 12 is expected soon.
Einaudi Center Announces New Global Public Voices Fellows
As Global Public Voice Fellows, Professor Victoria Beard, CRP, and other Cornell faculty will use their expertise to shape public debates about global policy issues and advocate for a more just and equitable future. In The Cornell Chronicle.
Productive Frictions: Jesse LeCavalier on Designing Logistical Possibilities
LeCavalier, an architect, urbanist, and educator shares thoughts on public life and value-integrated design practices, alternative models and trajectories for development, and questions to ask as producers of our society and surrounding landscapes.
Philip Ursprung on Wolfgang Tillmans's Empire (US/Mexico Border)
Actar's urbanNext has published an essay by spring 2020 Visiting Professor in architecture Philip Ursprung from Cornell Journal of Architecture 11: Fear, whose launch in 2020 was delayed by the pandemic. COJA 12 is expected soon.
Transdisciplinary Film Explores Trinidad and Tobago
A new documentary by architecture's Assistant Professor Tao DuFour focuses on the complex histories of labor and migration in the Caribbean region. Featured in the Cornell Chronicle.
Cornell Launches $5B Campaign 'To Do the Greatest Good'
The major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century & beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research, & engagement — in the words of founder Ezra Cornell, "To Do the Greatest Good."
Fundraising Campaign Includes Focus On Affordability
Cornell is launching a sweeping new initiative aimed at making its education even more accessible to the most talented students from all socioeconomic backgrounds.
Felix Heisel: Building a Sustainable Future
The Cornell Chronicle profiles architecture's Assistant Professor Felix Heisel and his cross-disciplinary collaborations with experts in the Circular Construction Lab to combat climate change and influence construction practices.
Student-designed 'TCAT to Trails' Map Plots Path to Nature
A project by Design Connect's Emile Bensedrine (B.S. URS '23), Quinn Kelly (M.R.P. '21), Catherine Cullen (B.S. URS '21), Edward Guo (B.S. URS '23), Paine Gronemeyer (B.S. URS '24), Devon Perlo (B.S. URS '23). In the Cornell Chronicle.
Lost in a Thousand Leaves with Luca Padroni
Italian artist and long-time Cornell in Rome visiting critic Luca Padroni reflects on his depiction of the human condition in relation to time and the natural world.
Stories Last Longer Than Symbols
With Who is Afraid of Natasha?, Art Professor of the Practice Joanna Malinowska and collaborator C.T. Jasper bring a monument (back) to life.
Collaboration Plants Seeds for Cultural, Biological Conservation
In The Cornell Chronicle, Associate Professor Jolene Rickard, history of art, speaks to a collaboration among Cornell and the Gayogo?hó:n?' (Cayuga Nation) to conserve biodiversity and safeguard human cultural values, language, traditions.
