An open invitation: AAP's spring 2025 semester highlights

From new classes and exceptional faculty to special exhibitions, field trips, and events, the upcoming semester at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) offers myriad opportunities to explore new possibilities and expand horizons. Whether you're based in Ithaca, New York City, or Rome this semester, you have an open invitation to explore and engage. So before the weeks fill with obligations and deadlines, be sure to check out all that AAP has planned so you don't miss out on an opportunity that could shift how you see your world and your work in it.

Showing Up: Lectures, Exhibitions & Events

The Struggle for Liberation Today: A Conversation with Angela Davis (2/3)
Cornell's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration will feature activist, writer, and lecturer Angela Davis, who will speak on the intersectional struggle for liberation today. The event is co-sponsored by the AAP Office of Diversity + Inclusion.

AAP Launchpad (3/19)
This annual book launch event showcases recent publications by Cornell AAP faculty. Hear brief, informal talks from each of the authors followed by the opportunity to meet them, as well as browse and buy their books. This semester's event will feature:

Architecture

• Professor Milton S. F. Curry: CriticalProductive
• Associate Professor Pamela Karimi: Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran and Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice
• Assistant Professor Peter Robinson: "The BlackSpace Manifesto: 'Living' Black Liberatory Futures," a chapter in Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post-Anthropocene

Art

• Professor Michael Ashkin: There will be two of you
• Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin: Painting Deconstructed
• M.F.A. in Image Text Codirectors Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor: Orange Blossom Trail
• Chair and Professor Paul Ramírez Jonas: Labels

City and Regional Planning

• Professor Sara Bronin: Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
• Chair and Professor Sophie Oldfield: High Stakes, High Hopes: Urban Theorizing in Partnership and Knowing the City: South African Urban Scholarship from Apartheid to Democracy
• Professor Mildred Warner (participation pending): Community Development and Schools: Conflict, Power, and Promise

Design Tech Open Studio (3/24-4/10)
Mounted in the Bibliowicz Family Gallery, this exhibition will feature work by the 2024-25 Design Tech Innovation Fellows, select Design Tech faculty, and Design Technology students, including drawings, models, material studies, 3D prints, interactive devices, prototypes, and video screens. The inaugural issue of Design Tech Volumes, an annual publication of work by Design Tech faculty and students, will be launched in tandem. The exhibition will then travel to Cornell Tech for the NYCxDESIGN festival (5/15-5/21).

Climate Resiliency in New York City (4/24)
The Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities will host a symposium at Cornell Tech this spring. The event will convene scientists, thought leaders, city government, civil society, and private industry to discuss what actions can be taken to make New York City more resilient to climate change hazards.

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