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Being aware of how politics are enacted through architecture and urbanism, Columbia GSAPP asserts its commitment to critically anticipate change. AFFIRMATIONS, the planetary coalition of activists/designers/thinkers that the school launched in September 2023, will interrogate and rethink the built environment at multiple scales—at the intersection of urgencies, violences, and possible reworldings.
This spring, AFFIRMATIONS will include the participation of Zoë Crossland, Keller Easterling, Jack Halberstam, Samia Henni, Andrés Jaque, Laura Kurgan, Reinhold Martin, Rob Nixon, Bart-Jan Polman, Elizabeth Povinelli, Paul B. Preciado, Filipa Ramos, C. Riley Snorton, Eyal Weizman, David Wengrow, and others, who will be in conversation with the AFFIRMATIONS cohort of respondents.
The school will also engage in conversations with Dwight Carey, Peter Galison, Bijoy Jain, Erik Langdalen, Svein Lund, Jonas Norsted, Hilary Sample, Joe Schaffers, Madelon Vriesendorp, and Hamza Walker through various formats. “The Library is Open” series will continue its second season with critical discussions on recently published works by Emanuel Admassu, Anita Bateman, Office Party, Markus Miessen, and Najha Zigbi-Johnson.
Please visit GSAPP’s event calendar (times noted in Eastern Time) for the full calendar and to learn more about each event.
AFFIRMATION 6: Climate Regimes
Samia Henni and Rob Nixon
Response by Keller Easterling and Reinhold Martin
Monday, January 22, 6:30pm
The Library is Open 5—Party Planner
OFFICE PARTY (Chase Galis, Christina Moushoul, and Sonia Ralston)
Thursday, February 1, 12:30pm
Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de La Villette at 40: An Anniversary Party
Featuring Bernard Tschumi with Andrés Jaque, Michael Bell, Mario Gooden, Jerome Haferd, Laurie Hawkinson, Mimi Hoang, Wonne Ickx, Jimenez Lai, Jing Liu, Reinhold Martin, Bart-Jan Polman, Galia Solomonoff, Mark Wigley, and additional guests.
Thursday, February 1, 6:30pm
The Library is Open 6—Wild Paper
Filipa Ramos
Monday, February 5, 12:30pm
The Library is Open 7—Where is Africa
Emanuel Admassu and Anita N. Bateman
Response by Delphine Fawundu and Drew Thompson
Thursday, February 8, 12:30pm
AFFIRMATION 7: Societal Accountabilities
Eyal Weizman and David Wengrow
Response by Zoë Crossland and Laura Kurgan
Monday, February 12, 6:30pm
The Library is Open 8—Agonistic Assemblies
Markus Miessen
Wednesday, February 14, 12:30pm
CCCP Lecture
Hamza Walker
Response by Mark Wasiuta
Wednesday, February 14, 6:30pm
2024 Detlef Mertins Lecture on the Histories of Modernity
Dwight Carey
Monday, February 19, 6:30pm
The Buell Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas: Land from Water
Caroline Murphy and Stella Nair
Thursday, February 29, 12pm
AFFIRMATION 8: Ecological Entanglements
Elizabeth Povinelli
Response by Filipa Ramos
Monday, March 18, 6:30pm
2024 John Foerster ‘64 Fund Lecture
Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai)
Wednesday, March 20, 6:30pm
Open House Lecture
Hilary Sample (MOS)
Response by Dean Andrés Jaque
Monday, March 25, 6:30pm
WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND: a LOT-EK movie by Thomas Piper
Screening of the film followed by a Q&A with film director Thomas Piper, Ada Tolla, and Guiseppe Lignano, moderated by Bart-Jan Polman
Thursday, March 28, 6:30pm
CONSTRUCTING (activist) PRACTICE Symposium
Organized by Juan Herreros
Friday, March 29, 9:30am
PhD in Urban Planning Lecture
Joe Schaffers
Introduction by Tom Slater
Monday, April 1, 6:30pm
AFFIRMATION 9: Queer/Trans Eco-Territorial-Bodiments
Jack Halberstam, Paul Preciado, and C. Riley Snorton
Response by Andrés Jaque
Wednesday, April 3, 6:30pm
Co-organized with Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender
Ph.D in Architecture Conference
Keynote Lecture by Peter Galison
Friday, April 5–Saturday, April 6. Fayerweather 209
2024 Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture
Madelon Vriesendorp
In conversation with Andrés Jaque and Bart-Jan Polman
Monday, April 8, 6:30pm
The Library is Open 9—Mapping Malcolm
Najha Zigbi-Johnson
Response by Joanna Joseph, Isabelle C Kirkham-Lewitt, and Meriam M. Soltan
Friday, April 12, 1pm
The Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture
Svein Lund and Jonas Norsted with Erik Langdalen and Jorge Otero-Pailos
Response by Laurie Hawkinson
Monday, April 15, 6:30pm
