At Cornell AAP, faculty enriches the college’s commitment to academic and creative excellence through research and engaged learning that bridges fields and inspires and supports the development of the next generation. Their work brings critical inquiry, research, design, and imagination to bear on the greatest challenges of our time to build a more just, sustainable, resilient, thriving, and inspired world.
The latest Light Work Annual highlights the year of Urban Video Project (UVP) commissions, including an exhibition by Art Visiting Critic Paulina Velázquez Solís.
Assistant Professor of Art Oscar Rene Cornejo is a featured artist at this group exhibition which highlights site-specific works for the grounds and interior gallery space at the Bundy Modern.
An article at Brookings coauthored by CRP Associate Professor and Cornell Atkinson Senior Faculty Fellow Linda Shi examines how current systems of property and land governance limit how well communities can respond to the threats of climate change.
Professor of Architecture Esra Akcan contributed an essay to this book that embarks on an architectural search for traces in postcolonial contexts through the documentation of buildings and projects by Austrian architects in African and Asian countries between 1955 and 1989.
Professor and Chair of Art Paul Ramírez Jonas is a featured artist in this group show, which puts America’s past in dialogue with its present by pairing writings by statesman, abolitionist, and philosopher Thomas Paine with nine contemporary works that speak to the ongoing quest, as Paine wrote, “to begin the world over again.”
An essay in The Avery Review by Architecture Assistant Professor Farzin Lotfi-Jam details how his ongoing research on “realtime” data and surveillance informs his perspective on international conflict.
A paper in Nature Cities by CRP Assistant Professor Ding Fei examines China’s ambiguous engagement with urban development, and how a framework of cooperation could turn today’s fragmented effects into more coordinated, accountable, and sustainable urban partnerships.
Design Tech Associate Professor Jose Sanchez’s paper introduces Minga, a multiplayer simulation that reimagines Chiloé’s house-pulling ritual to explore cultural preservation and the dynamics of cooperation.
Architecture and Design Tech Associate Professor Timur Dogan and Amber Su (B.Arch. ’25) introduce a voxel-based ray-tracing method that efficiently computes sunlit fractions for urban surfaces using point cloud or mesh data without the requirement for manual geometry simplification.
Max Kreminski, Assistant Professor of Design Tech (appointed jointly with Cornell Tech), coauthors this paper on creativity tools in HCI, examining how activity traces — the records of creator data produced over the course of a creative process — are leveraged, creating a Living Framework for Trace Awareness through a review of 133 creativity systems from major HCI venues.