In their lecture Cooking Sections trace the construction of salmon—the colour of a wild fish, which is neither wild, nor fish (nor even salmon). Colour is a vector that composes forms, entwines species, and signals environmental changes. From the Isle of Skye, Cooking Sections document how industries are changing the planet’s metabolism, redefining the shades we live in, censoring our sensitivity to the Earth and its hues, while constructing new extractivist territories. Salmon usually feed on red-pink crustaceans, like shrimp and krill, making them metabolise the colour that tints salmon salmon. But farmed salmon have become [salmon], which are deprived of the substances that should otherwise salmon their bodies. 

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

The student program offers an inside look at the architectural profession, highlighting the varied and creative career paths open to graduates of architecture school.

Panelists include Jerome Haferd, co-founder, BRANDT : HAFERD, Pascale Sablan, senior associate, S9 Architecture / founder and executive director, Beyond the Built Environment, Seb Choe, associate director, MIXdesign.

Advance registration is required. All registered participants will be sent a link to participate through Zoom. The program is free and open for current students. Please register with a .edu email address.

Ellie Abrons and Meredith Miller are co-founders of T+E+A+M, with Adam Fure and Thom Moran. T+E+A+M’s work centers on materiality, image, and environment. Their collaborative projects have been exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and A+D Museum in Los Angeles, among other venues. T+E+A+M is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan where they are associate professors at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University, and the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (Duke UP, 2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). 

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

The Dublin-based 2020 Pritzker Prize laureates, Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 after meeting at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin. As architects and educators, the partners honor "history while demonstrating a mastery of the urban environment and craft of construction," as their Pritzker Prize announcement states. The practice's academic, civic, cultural, and residential projects balance strength and delicacy, resulting in impactful and unique works.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here.

To view and sign the full document—A Manifesto and Call to Action to Build a Cooper Union Free of Racial and Social Injustice—please click here.

For campus-wide COVID-19 updates, please visit The Cooper Union's website.