We have to discuss the “how.” Whereas there is a broad understanding of the need to reset a world built on violence and extractivism to one based on relations of fair coexistence and mutual care, how to action this reset through the built environment remains under accounted. There is an urgency to acknowledging and reflecting on what specific practices, knowledges, design strategies, tools, and processes contribute to this intellectual and ethical engagement. “How can they be enacted as a material, social, ecosystemic, disciplinary, and professional reality?”, “How is this paradigm change being actioned?”, and “What are the specific methodologies to reworld our planet in connection with critical sensitivities of inclusivity?” are vital questions in order to move towards fair possible futures. Claiming the inseparability of discourse, practice, and activism, Columbia GSAPP announces the launch of eight ACTIONING SUMMITS: an unprecedented effort to affirm how architecture, planning, development, and preservation are anticipating desirable and alternative futures. Designs, processes, practices, and professions are sites for change. Inherited forms of intervening in the built environment are readily replaced by a vibrant ecosystem of “ways of doing” that demands attention and actioning. During a period of eight months, these summits will convene activists, architects, artists, designers, developers, ethnographers, historians, planners, policymakers, politicians, thinkers, and community organizers from around the world to address together eight crucial methodological shifts in the way the disciplines of the built environment (architecture, computational design, development, historic preservation, urban design, and urban planning) operate and collaborate with each other. Participants will include **Anna Tsing**, **Ada Colau**, **Mabel Wilson**, **James Bridle**, **Carles Baiges**, **Marjetica Potrč**, **Elizabeth Povinelli**, **Joseph Zeal Henry**, **Philippe Rahm**, **Paulo Tavares**, **Marisol de la Cadena**, **Barika Williams**, **David Benjamin**, **Aimi Hamraie**, **Albena Yaneva**, **Hilary Sample**, **Snoweria Zhang**, **Laura Kurgan**, **David Gissen**, **Michael Wang**, **Alejandro Echeverri**, **Supawut Boonmahathanakorn**, **Mehrdad Mahoutian**, **Michael Marder**, **Juan Herreros**, **Ziad Jamaleddine**, **Lydia Kallipoliti**, **Kaja Kühl**, **Edmund Asiedu**, **Erica Avrami**, **Michael Bell**, **Lola Ben-Alon**, **Lindy Roy**, **Lydia Chilton**, **Seth Cluett**, **Renato Cymbalista**, **Anthony Vanky**, **Ignacio G. Galán**, **Catherine Griffiths**, **Mark Hansen**, **Adam Lubinsky**, **Tom Slater**, **William Martin**, **Alysson Martinez**, **Na’Im Merchant**, **Christopher Munsell**, **Chelina Odbert**, **Marina Otero**, **Karla Rothstein**, **Dan Taeyoung**, **Laura Tripaldi**, **Adam Vosburgh**, **Violet Whitney**, and additional guests. We will ask: 1. How to work collectively now (in cases of community engagement) 2. How to speed up the response to urgent crises (in facing the eviction and housing crisis) 3. How to connect local-AI with local knowledge 4. How to scale up (to make carbon sequestration impactful) 5. How to think through/as more-than-human intelligence 6. How to bring science, spirituality, and politics together (acknowledging indigenous knowledge) 7. How to project disability forward 8. How to repair The summits will offer a space and opportunity to situate specialized knowledge within specific histories and contexts. During the ACTIONING SUMMITS, participants will discuss a concrete methodological shift elaborated through the tools, practices, protocols, and forms of engagement that have unfolded as part of specific projects or processes they have actively participated in. ---- Please visit [GSAPP’s event calendar](https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events?time_range=semester) (times noted in Eastern Time) to learn more about each ACTIONING SUMMIT. All summits will be livestreamed on GSAPP’s [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@columbiagsapp). To receive updates, readings, and reminders please sign up using [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17t_tp_ohiSLeR7GHye04q9BYJs5c2zY8lMBZlXGyWPI/edit). _The ACTIONING SUMMITS are curated by Andrés Jaque, Dean, and Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery._