Srinivasan was a PhD candidate at GSAPP. The conduct of this department, one of the most prominent architecture schools in the country, is appalling
Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
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Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada
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March 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Srinivasan was a PhD candidate at GSAPP. The conduct of this department, one of the most prominent architecture schools in the country, is appalling
También sería interesante que la Oficina para la Innovación Política, cuyo creador es Dean Professor del GSAPP de Columbia, hiciera honor a su nombre.
May 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
También sería interesante que la Oficina para la Innovación Política, cuyo creador es Dean Professor del GSAPP de Columbia, hiciera honor a su nombre.
Monday, February 3 join GSAPP and FEMINIST SPATIAL PRACTICES for an evening of talks and discussions with many of the collective’s collaborators.
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3723-...
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Feminist Spatial Practices at GSAPP - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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January 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Monday, February 3 join GSAPP and FEMINIST SPATIAL PRACTICES for an evening of talks and discussions with many of the collective’s collaborators.
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3723-...
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3723-...
The recording of the AI Summit I organized is now online. Scroll down for the recordings of the 4 panels: #HumanAI, #LocalAI, #SpatialAI, #UrbanAI and #PlanetaryAI. @katecrawford.bsky.social and I are in conversation on the Planetary part. Many excellent talks.
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3601-...
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3601-...
ACTIONING SUMMIT 3: AI ACTIONING SUMMIT - Columbia GSAPP
David Benjamin (GSAPP, The Living) Lydia Chilton (Columbia Engineering) Seth Cluett (Columbia Computer Music Center) Nikhil Garg (Cornell Tech) Moderator: Mark Hansen (Brown Institute for Media In...
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November 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
The recording of the AI Summit I organized is now online. Scroll down for the recordings of the 4 panels: #HumanAI, #LocalAI, #SpatialAI, #UrbanAI and #PlanetaryAI. @katecrawford.bsky.social and I are in conversation on the Planetary part. Many excellent talks.
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3601-...
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3601-...
ACTIONING SUMMIT 5: HOW TO THINK THROUGH/AS MORE-THAN-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Monday, January 27 6:30 PM, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3622-...
Monday, January 27 6:30 PM, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP
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ACTIONING SUMMIT 5: How to think through/as more-than-human intelligence - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
ACTIONING SUMMIT 5: HOW TO THINK THROUGH/AS MORE-THAN-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Monday, January 27 6:30 PM, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP
www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3622-...
Monday, January 27 6:30 PM, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP
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Marina Otero has been running a studio about Tuvalu for the past two years:
June 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Marina Otero has been running a studio about Tuvalu for the past two years:
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Statements of Support for Columbia University PhD Student Ranjani Srinivasan From Geographers, Planners, and Other Academics of Conscience
In what follows, we circulate two statements directed at two parties (Columbia University's GSAPP and Geography and Planning professional associations). We delineate which portions of text are common ...
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March 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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today's wordle is a word that a renowned architectural historian was yelling at a student during a lecture at GSAPP.
September 13, 2026 at 7:06 AM
today's wordle is a word that a renowned architectural historian was yelling at a student during a lecture at GSAPP.
Columbia GSAPP Dean's Lecture: Marina Tabassum
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Columbia GSAPP Dean's Lecture: Marina Tabassum
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October 30, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Columbia GSAPP Dean's Lecture: Marina Tabassum
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I typically over-prepare for *everything*, but sometimes it's cathartic to be forced to extemporize. Like just now: I gave an hour-long guest lecture in Marina Otero's GSAPP class, I winged the whole damn thing, and it was actually great! I need more strategic spontaneity in my professional life :)
October 9, 2023 at 8:18 PM
I typically over-prepare for *everything*, but sometimes it's cathartic to be forced to extemporize. Like just now: I gave an hour-long guest lecture in Marina Otero's GSAPP class, I winged the whole damn thing, and it was actually great! I need more strategic spontaneity in my professional life :)
3/ Ranjani Srinavasin (Columbia) (exiled from US)
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Letter From a Columbia PhD Candidate, After Fleeing the United States to Canada
My name is Ranjani Srinivasan. I was a 5th year PhD student at the Department of Urban Planning, GSAPP. I was also a TA in the Urban Studies Department at
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March 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
3/ Ranjani Srinavasin (Columbia) (exiled from US)
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UNAM’s architecture school, in CDMX. The GSAPP could never.
September 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
UNAM’s architecture school, in CDMX. The GSAPP could never.
This spring GSAPP will convene more than 60 of the most relevant voices from design, theory, planning, advocacy, and other fields, from all around the world. Learn more about GSAPP's spring programming and sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop.
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January 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This spring GSAPP will convene more than 60 of the most relevant voices from design, theory, planning, advocacy, and other fields, from all around the world. Learn more about GSAPP's spring programming and sign up for our newsletter to stay in the loop.
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#Anne Holtrop ift.tt/hoUp5rx | posted by afasia | daily entries on contemporary art and architecture #afasiaarchzine #afasiaarq |
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Columbia GSAPP Columbia GSAPP A lecture by Anne Holtrop with a response by…
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So after Ranjani Srinivasan was hounded by Ice, who revoked her student visa on the basis of her political speech, and was forced to flee the country, Columbia the Shameful disenrolled them as a student.
Words truly fail to say how absurd this is.
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Words truly fail to say how absurd this is.
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Reinstate Ranjani Srinivasan & Protect International Students and Higher Education Now
Columbia University abandoned GSAPP PhD candidate Ranjani Srinivasan to abduction by ICE, cancelling her student status and housing agreement without due process. She was forced to leave the country f...
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March 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
So after Ranjani Srinivasan was hounded by Ice, who revoked her student visa on the basis of her political speech, and was forced to flee the country, Columbia the Shameful disenrolled them as a student.
Words truly fail to say how absurd this is.
actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...
Words truly fail to say how absurd this is.
actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...
🚨 Ranjani Srinivasan is a PhD student forced to flee the U.S. after being targeted for support for Palestine. After the govt terminated their visa & SEVIS status, Columbia unnecessarily disenrolled Ranjani while ICE hounded them apt for days. #ReinstateRanjani now! actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...
Reinstate Ranjani Srinivasan & Protect International Students and Higher Education Now
Columbia University abandoned GSAPP PhD candidate Ranjani Srinivasan to abduction by ICE, cancelling her student status and housing agreement without due process. She was forced to leave the country f...
actionnetwork.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🚨 Ranjani Srinivasan is a PhD student forced to flee the U.S. after being targeted for support for Palestine. After the govt terminated their visa & SEVIS status, Columbia unnecessarily disenrolled Ranjani while ICE hounded them apt for days. #ReinstateRanjani now! actionnetwork.org/letters/rein...
This is great news! (and I was honored to serve as one of the external referees :)
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July 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
This is great news! (and I was honored to serve as one of the external referees :)
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We're cohosting an event this Saturday w/ the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University! Join us for a day-long colloquium focused on repair in architecture + planning education. How can we accelerate academia’s adaptation to the new exigencies of our planet?
Free and open to the public:
Free and open to the public:
Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
www.arch.columbia.edu
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 AM
We're cohosting an event this Saturday w/ the Historic Preservation Program at Columbia University! Join us for a day-long colloquium focused on repair in architecture + planning education. How can we accelerate academia’s adaptation to the new exigencies of our planet?
Free and open to the public:
Free and open to the public:
Here @ Columbia GSAPP for the Fitch Colloquium, abt repairing design education — I appreciate Deborah Berke’s acknwldgmt that demolition is violence, and that all pedagogy + practice should prioritize the minimization of violence; deconstruction instead allows for disassembly and reuse
December 7, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Here @ Columbia GSAPP for the Fitch Colloquium, abt repairing design education — I appreciate Deborah Berke’s acknwldgmt that demolition is violence, and that all pedagogy + practice should prioritize the minimization of violence; deconstruction instead allows for disassembly and reuse
Interventions by Catherine Griffiths (GSAPP, Catherine Griffiths), Marina Otero (GSAPP), Lindy Roy (GSAPP, Roy Projects), Anthony Vanky (GSAPP), Michael Wang (GSAPP).
January 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Interventions by Catherine Griffiths (GSAPP, Catherine Griffiths), Marina Otero (GSAPP), Lindy Roy (GSAPP, Roy Projects), Anthony Vanky (GSAPP), Michael Wang (GSAPP).
Not sure how many #architecture or built environment folks are here yet, but I encourage everyone to tune in to Affirmations this evening by Columbia GSAPP. An eight-month series of discussions on how to rethink and redesign the built environment.
FD: I'm part of the cohort of respondents
FD: I'm part of the cohort of respondents
AFFIRMATION 1. Anchored Futurisms - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
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September 11, 2023 at 7:55 PM
Not sure how many #architecture or built environment folks are here yet, but I encourage everyone to tune in to Affirmations this evening by Columbia GSAPP. An eight-month series of discussions on how to rethink and redesign the built environment.
FD: I'm part of the cohort of respondents
FD: I'm part of the cohort of respondents
Such a characteristically great GSAPP event series, Mondays @ 6:30pm ET - on futurisms, material ecologies, design justice, indigenous worldings, decolonizations - ft Olalekan Jeyofous, Paulo Tavares, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Rox Nixon, and bunch of other ✨ ppl www.arch.columbia.edu/affirmations
Affirmations - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
www.arch.columbia.edu
August 25, 2023 at 3:16 PM
Such a characteristically great GSAPP event series, Mondays @ 6:30pm ET - on futurisms, material ecologies, design justice, indigenous worldings, decolonizations - ft Olalekan Jeyofous, Paulo Tavares, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Rox Nixon, and bunch of other ✨ ppl www.arch.columbia.edu/affirmations
Come be my colleague! The School Psychology Dept at Rutgers GSAPP is hiring for a tenure track faculty: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/212...
October 11, 2023 at 2:23 PM
Come be my colleague! The School Psychology Dept at Rutgers GSAPP is hiring for a tenure track faculty: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/212...
The colloquium "will explore the pedagogical imagination, and consider what it would take to rebalance the relative importance of preserving existing buildings in the pedagogy of architecture schools" — and how such curricular changes cld impact "all the professions of the built environment"
Fitch Colloquium: Repairing Architecture Schools - Columbia GSAPP
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
www.arch.columbia.edu
December 2, 2024 at 5:18 PM
The colloquium "will explore the pedagogical imagination, and consider what it would take to rebalance the relative importance of preserving existing buildings in the pedagogy of architecture schools" — and how such curricular changes cld impact "all the professions of the built environment"