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Cornell AAP to Launch First New York City-based High School Summer Program

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is adding a new summer intensive for high schoolers interested in studying the collective aspirations, methodologies, and processes involved in the design of cities.

Faculty, students, and community members collaborate to install local trees and shrubs
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Groundwork: Cultivation Rooted in Art and Action

At the intersection of art, ecology, and community, students enrolled in a course led by Associate Professor Jen de los Reyes explore research and practice that moves beyond the studio and into Ithaca's local ecologies.

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Informal Settlements Generate Collective Empowerment through Locally Led Action

Hosted by the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, Shiela Muganyi — a community research leader from the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation and a member of Slum Dwellers International in Zimbabwe — visited AAP to share how mutual exchange and planning for the future can improve the lives of residents in informal settlements.

students collaborate around a workshop table, examining clear plastic parts in a busy makerspace.
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New Cohorts of Engaged Fellows Contribute to Campus Community-Engaged Learning Network

AAP faculty Caitlin Blanchfield, John Ponstingel, and Hanna Tulis, and postdoctoral fellow Julian Hartman, were selected for the 2025–26 Engaged Faculty Fellows cohort, contributing to Cornell's campuswide network advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship.

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AAP Engagement Impact Grant Virtual Informational Sessions, December 11–February 4

Attend an informational session about the AAP Engagement Impact Grants available to faculty and students in spring 2026.

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Tribute to Europe's Lost Synagogues Is an Artist's Labor of Love

Cornell AAP alumna Andrea Strongwater (B.F.A. '70) is profiled for her 15-year artistic and historical effort to document 77 destroyed European synagogues as an act of cultural memory and architectural preservation.

a student discussing their project in front of several other people in a room
Stories

Cornell AAP to Launch First New York City-based High School Summer Program

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is adding a new summer intensive for high schoolers interested in studying the collective aspirations, methodologies, and processes involved in the design of cities.

Shiela Muganyi headshot
Stories

Informal Settlements Generate Collective Empowerment through Locally Led Action

Hosted by the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, Shiela Muganyi — a community research leader from the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation and a member of Slum Dwellers International in Zimbabwe — visited AAP to share how mutual exchange and planning for the future can improve the lives of residents in informal settlements.

a white banister with light filtering through
Workshop

AAP Engagement Impact Grant Virtual Informational Sessions, December 11–February 4

Attend an informational session about the AAP Engagement Impact Grants available to faculty and students in spring 2026.

Faculty, students, and community members collaborate to install local trees and shrubs
Stories

Groundwork: Cultivation Rooted in Art and Action

At the intersection of art, ecology, and community, students enrolled in a course led by Associate Professor Jen de los Reyes explore research and practice that moves beyond the studio and into Ithaca's local ecologies.

students collaborate around a workshop table, examining clear plastic parts in a busy makerspace.
Stories

New Cohorts of Engaged Fellows Contribute to Campus Community-Engaged Learning Network

AAP faculty Caitlin Blanchfield, John Ponstingel, and Hanna Tulis, and postdoctoral fellow Julian Hartman, were selected for the 2025–26 Engaged Faculty Fellows cohort, contributing to Cornell's campuswide network advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship.

Split image of the illustrated cover of Lost Synagogues of Europe alongside a portrait of the artist standing indoors beside framed artwork.
Stories

Tribute to Europe's Lost Synagogues Is an Artist's Labor of Love

Cornell AAP alumna Andrea Strongwater (B.F.A. '70) is profiled for her 15-year artistic and historical effort to document 77 destroyed European synagogues as an act of cultural memory and architectural preservation.

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