The seventh ACTIONING SUMMIT, co-curated with Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard), will discuss the expert knowledge and methodological questions required to project disability forward. Speakers will be Edmund Asiedu (DOT), Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard College, Columbia University), David Gissen (Parsons/The New School), and Aimi Hamraie (Vanderbilt).

ASL interpretation will be provided. Masks will be required and provided. Please make any accommodation requests in the registration form.

This event is coordinated with the Keating Visiting Architect lecture by Jeffrey Mansfield at Barnard College on Wednesday, March 26, at 6:00 PM.

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.

This year’s John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture will be delivered by Thomas Heatherwick. Response by Amelyn Ng and Bart-Jan Polman.

Over the past 30 years Thomas Heatherwick has designed multiple new districts, cultural landmarks and transport infrastructure across the globe. His studio is currently working on over 30 projects in ten countries, including Seoul’s Nodeul Island and Singapore’s Changi Airport Terminal 5 in collaboration with KPF. Previous projects include Azabudai Hills, a new neighbourhood in the centre of Tokyo; Little Island, a floating public park in New York; Google’s first ground-up campus in California; the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town; and an new retail district in Xi’an, China.

• GSAPP is a co-sponsor for the Settlement Symposium and the Insurgent Domesticities Roundtable presented by the SOF/Heyman. The Insurgent Domesticities Roundtable brings into focus the insurgent environments, objects, and practices that make up the maintenance, creation, labor, and intimacies of home. Following, the Settlement Symposium, will ask how settlement and migration relate to one another historically, and how this relation has created fictions of land and architecture in the colonized world. Thursday, March 27 (roundtable) and Friday, March 28, 2025 (symposium) at the Heyman Center. Registration required for each event. Pictured: Kuruvungna Village Springs and Cultural Center in Los Angeles courtesy Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi.

• The Emilio Ambasz Lecture Series: Architecture as Poetry at the CU Department of Art History will feature architect Kengo Kuma on the topic of “The Materials and Structures of a Poetic Practice.” Kuma was invited by GSAPP faculty Barry Bergdoll to speak for this series’s inaugural lecture. Reception to follow. Monday, April 7, 2025, 5–6 PM at the Asia Society Museum, Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium . RSVP required.

• Faculty Hilary Sample joins a jury including Jonathan Tate, Christopher Hawthorne, Kevin Keller, and Phoebe Yee for Small Lots, Big Impact—a new architecture competition hosted by the City of Los Angeles, LA4LA, and cityLAB-UCLA.
• SHoP Architects founded by Gregg Pasquarelli ’94 M.Arch MSHP, William Sharples ‘94 M.Arch, Christopher Sharples '90 M.Arch,Coren Sharples '94 M.Arch, Kimberly Holden '94 M.Arch received the Medal of Honor at the AIANY Honors and Awards Luncheon
• Faculty Hiba Bou Akar co-organized and moderated “Art in Times of War: Threading Spaces of Displacement, Exile and Genocide,” as part of her residency at The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.
• Faculty Jorge Otero-Pailos will present on a panel including Marisa Angell Brown, Hakeem Adewumi, and Charles Waldheim, on the topic of “Preservation’s Present” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “The Larger Landscape Conversation” series.