Dear Parents,
As valued members of the Columbia GSAPP community, we invite you to participate in the intellectual exchange of ideas occuring on campus this semester. Please join us for an exciting line-up of conferences and discussions focusing on environmental challenges, global design networks, disciplinary convergence, and more.
Below is a selection of the semester’s highlights; please visit the online calendar for the full schedule.
For those who are not able to attend in person, please note that many of these events will be live streamed and also made available for viewing at a later date.
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SAVE THE DATE
The GSAPP Commencement Ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 16, 2020 on Columbia’s Morningside Campus. Additional details will be forthcoming.
Also, stay tuned for information regarding the 2020 End of Year Show showcasing select student work from across programs and disciplines.
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Prospecting Ocean
Feb 27 – Jun 27, 2025
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Buell Hall
Prospecting Ocean by Armin Linke is a multimedia artistic research project that investigates how the convergence of scientific research, legal frameworks, and economic interests affect the oceans. The exhibition features archival material, film, and photography, and includes new work that draws upon Linke’s research at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Co-organized by Columbia GSAPP and TBA21–Academy.
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MAKE AN IMPACT
GSAPP is a laboratory, shaping the future of the built environment through its global community of outstanding students, faculty, alumni and friends.
We invite you to be a part of this tradition of excellence and creativity by helping to replenish annual funds that support program priorities like tuition relief, travel stipends, research, publications, and facilities upgrades.
Support Engaged Learning at GSAPP.
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Nervous Systems
April 3, 2020, 1pm
114, Avery Hall
Neuroscientists and designers explore spatio-temporal thinking and convergences between the two fields.
Organized by Lindy Roy and Leah Kelly.
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Climate Commitments
April 10, 2020, 10am
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
This conference features a keynote by Billy Fleming and focuses on collective responses to the climate breakdown in pedagogy, research, and practice.
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Nothing is Automatic
April 17, 2020, 9:30am
209, Fayerweather Hall
This symposium extends research into architecture’s entanglements with technologies of automation. It asks how to view and trace the impact and historical interconnections of technologies, social ideals, and legal and computational protocols that have managed humans, their time, their labor, and their behavior.
Organized by Columbia GSAPP’s CCCP program in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut and Storefront for Art and Architecture.
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Frontiers in the Oceanic Anthropocene
March 27, 2020, 1pm
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scientists, policy experts, activists, and designers to discuss the legal, ecological, and cultural stakes in the ocean.
Organized by GSAPP Exhibitions and co-presented by the Earth Institute and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
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