Today is Indigenous People’s Day, which honors the past, present, and future of Native peoples throughout the United States. Congratulations to Raven Chacon, Diné (Navajo) composer, performer, and installation artist on being named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. Chacon is a current GSAPP faculty member teaching an Advanced V Studio with Mario Gooden. To learn more about his work, please see the recording of his 2022 GSAPP lecture. |
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AFFIRMATION 4
October 9, 2023, 6:30pm
Wood Auditorium
Paulo Tavares and Emanuel Admassu participate in the fourth edition of the AFFIRMATIONS. Unfortunately, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is not able to participate in tonight’s conversation due to personal reasons.
Paulo Tavares is an architect, author, and educator. His practice dwells at the frontiers between architecture, visual cultures, and advocacy. Operating through multiple media, Tavares’s projects have been featured in various exhibitions and publications worldwide, including Oslo Architecture Triennial, Istanbul Design Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and most recently the Venice Biennale 2023. He is the author of several books questioning the colonial legacies of modernity, including Des-Habitat (2019), Lucio Costa era Racista? (2022), and Derechos No-Humanos (2022).
Emanuel Admassu ’12 MSAAD ’13 AAR is an Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. He is a founding partner, with Jen Wood, of AD–WO, an art and architecture practice based in New York City, and by extension, between Melbourne and Addis Ababa. He is also a co-founding board member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.
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Nikhil Anand
October 10, 2023, 1:15pm
Ware Lounge (Avery 600)
Predominantly Grey: On Stormwater Drains and Foreclosed Futures
Nikhil Anand is the Daniel Braun Silvers and Robert Peter Silvers Family Presidential Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on cities, infrastructure, state power and climate change. He addresses these questions by studying the political ecology of cities, read through the different lives of water.
Organized by the Urban Planning Program.
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Made Land
October 12, 2023, 12pm
300 Buell South
A conversation among Deepa Ramaswamy (University of Houston) and Amiel Bizé (Cornell University), followed by a response from Professor Reinhold Martin.
Since the 17th Century, land has been “made” from its edges inward. Two scholars present research drawn from the long history of land in Mumbai, India, and in Western Kenya, showing how wealth is made from (and on) the edges of landed territories. Countering classical economics’ characterization that land’s value comes only from investing in the earth’s agricultural productivity, both speakers examine the long-term effects of alternate liquidities onto land’s shape and settlement.
Organized by the Buell Center.
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The Library is Open: Lindsey Wikstrom
October 13, 2023, 1pm
Avery 400
Lindsey Wikstrom ’16 M.Arch, co-founder of Mattaforma, participates in the inaugural edition of “The Library is Open” series with a presentation of her book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures (Routledge, 2023). The presentation is followed by a response from Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP.
Please note: This event was originally scheduled for September 29 but was postponed due to inclement weather.
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10th Urban China Forum
The Urban China Network hosts the 10th Urban China Forum: Transformations & Opportunities of Urban Planning in China in Recent Decades on October 13 and 14, 2023.
Register for Day 1, October 13, 2023
Register for Day 2, October 14, 2023
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GSAPP Recommends
LOT-EK, led by faculty members Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano, will celebrate the North American premiere screening of a documentary about their practice, WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND, at the SVA Theatre (333 W 23rd St.) at 6:30pm on Wednesday, October 25. A Q&A with the filmmakers and special guests will follow the screening. The ticket line is here; enter “Columbia” for a discount code ($5 off tickets). Alumni Iyad Abou Gaida (’19 MSAAD), Jumanah Abbas (’20 MSCCCP), and their collaborator Em Joseph are showing the film Where Can We Be Found? (2023; أين يمكن أن تجدنا؟) at the New Museum as part of Screen Series, a platform for the presentation of new video works by emerging contemporary artists, from Sunday, October 15. View the screening schedule. |
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Career Services
Resume Writing Workshop
Thursday, October 12 at 1pm
Friday, October 13 at 1pm
This workshop, open to MArch, MSAUD, and MSAAD students, will provide tips and strategies for creating a compelling resume that will catch the attention of potential employers.
Presented by Karen Cover, Assistant Director of Career Services for Architecture and Urban Design.
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