The eighth and ultimate ACTIONING SUMMIT will discuss the expert knowledge and methodologies that surround questions of repair, with several key experts on the topic of reparations: Dr. Ron Daniels (NAARC), Marjetica Potrč, Paulo Tavares (autonoma, University of Brasília), and Mabel Wilson (GSAPP, AAADS).

The ACTIONING SUMMITS are an unprecedented effort to affirm how architecture, planning, development, and preservation are anticipating desirable and alternative futures.

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.

The Library is Open 18 invites GSAPP’s FeiFei Zhou to discuss Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature (Stanford University Press, 2024), a book developed by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and FeiFei Zhou.

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene takes stock of our current planetary crisis, leading readers through a series of sites, thought experiments, and genre-stretching descriptive practices to nurture a revitalized natural history. This Field Guide shifts attention away from knowledge extractive practices of globalization to encourage skilled observers of many stripes to pursue their commitments to place, social justice, and multispecies community.

The Library is Open is a lunchtime series featuring recently published works and their authors, curated by Bart-Jan Polman.

• Columbia News’ “Notebook” column features an interview with Anika Tsapatsaris ‘25 M.Arch MSRED, reflecting her eight years at Columbia, from her time as an undergraduate in the Bachelor of Architecture program to her experience as a dual-degree student at GSAPP.

• ArchDaily in conversation with faculty Steven Holl on his extensive exhibition of watercolors, “Drawing as Thought” on view at the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin.

• Faculty Ziad Jamaleddine delivers a lecture, “The Mosque After Typology” at the Arabia Interrotta Symposium at the School of Architecture at University of Illinois Chicago. The day-long event explores the shift in cultural and architectural focus from traditional urban centers in the Arab East to the wealthy nations of the Arabian Peninsula.

• Faculty Marina Otero Verzier is a speaker at Prada Frames: In Transit, a symposium curated by Formafantasma that runs in parallel with this week’s Salone del Mobile in Milan.

• While in Chile with UD Studio III: The Earth Studio, faculty Kate Orff spoke with local urbanism publication, “El Mercurio” on the urgency of embedding ecological restoration principles into the practice and methodologies of urban planning.