Nine appointments, eight months, more than thirty guests participating in person, countless questions and interventions from the Planetary Cohort of Respondents dialled in from over fifty countries alongside dozens of students and faculty to consider societal, environmental, and bodily urgencies: AFFIRMATIONS is about the political role of architecture. Curated by Andrés Jaque and Bart-Jan Polman, the AFFIRMATIONS programme has been curated within the context of Columbia GSAPP.