Cornell University - College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

**Mission** The agency to respond to today's urgencies A leader in creativity, innovation, and impact, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University 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. **OUR VALUES** **Creativity** at AAP means that we trust in processes of investigation and imagination and that our ideas translate to possibilities for a better world. Our approaches to teaching and learning are driven by an engaged **criticality** that provides an informed perspective on compounded challenges we face as a generation of architects, artists, and planners committed to civil discourse, action, and positive change. The root from which our community expands and grows is a genuine **care** for one another — for the world and our shared future that demands we understand the enormous value of the work we do — and how we do it, here and now.