4.26.2009

Seed magazine: Thomas E. Lovejoy and Mitchell Joachim

Feature: The Seed Salon by Maywa Montenegro Portraits by Julian Dufort special thanks: Adam Bly Seed magazine, pp. 39-44, issue #22, June 2009.

4.22.2009

BrightTALK: The Carborexic City

Webcast Lecture: Mitchell Joachim, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University The Carborexic City Channel Architecture and Engineering 22 Apr 2009 Duration 30m http://www.brighttalk.com/webcasts/2839/play

Ecogram: Iron Designer at DUMBO

Thursday, April 23, 7-9 pm: Iron Designer Dumbo, Brooklyn, within Spacebuster - Meet at the Pearl Street Triangle. Please join Studio-X, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Raumlabor, Dumbo Improvement District and Inhabitat: IRON DESIGNER is a real-time, ecologically based competition based on "Iron Chef" and held within Spacebuster by Raumlabor. Who: Teams of Third-Year M.Arch students from: Columbia University GSAPP Parsons The New School for Design City College of New York Pratt Institute Meet at the Pearl Street Triangle, Dumbo, Brooklyn, inside Spacebuster Winning team will be featured on Inhabitat.com Jurors include: Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art and Architecture), Raumlabor, Olivia Chen (Inhabitat), Kate Kerrigan (Dumbo Improvement District), Richard Plunz, Ben Prosky and Sarah Williams (Columbia GSAPP), Meredith Tenhoor and Deb Johnson (Pratt Institute), Joel Towers (Parsons), Rafael Magrou (architecture critic, Paris), Amale Andraos and Dan Wood (workAC), William Menking (The Architect's Newspaper), and others to be announced. Sponsored by Studio-X/Columbia University GSAPP, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Raumlabor, Dumbo Improvement District and Inhabitat. Organized by Mitchell Joachim, Ioanna Theocharopoulou and Gavin Browning as a continuation of "ECOGRAM: The Sustainability Question." Congratulations to the winners: CITY COLLEGE NY! Halina Steiner, Brett Seamans, Perry Randazzo, Orland Rymer

4.18.2009

Architects Newspaper: Ecological Urbanism Conference at GSD

Koolhaas Flames Out, Shantytowns Inform The Architects Newspaper: 4.09.09. by Mariana Rodriguez Orte "...the conference added provocative ideas to the discourse on sustainable architecture and planning. Along with the usual urban farms, solar panels, wind farms, and bioswales, there were innovative proposals that advocated for changes in technological and programmatic aspects of the profession, from Mitchell Joachim’s radical houses made of meat and compact electric transportation systems presented by MIT’s William Mitchell..." http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/2009/04/09/koolhaas-flames-out-shantytowns-inform/

4.14.2009

New York Post: Terreform 1 at MEx

GREEN ACRE A HUB OF ECO-FRIENDLY ENTREPRENEURS GROWS IN BROOKLYN by Dan Avery, New York Post, 4-13-09. With Attara, who has a background in design, Interboro soon founded the Metropolitan Exchange (MEx), a community-minded co-op that offers office space to other architects, urban planners and researchers with a progressive bent. Among them is Mitchell Joachim of the nonprofit ecological design firm Terreform 1, whose visionary ideas for re-imagining cities -- like the City Car, a stackable car made of soft materials, and an airborne transit system using low-hanging blimps -- recently earned him a spot on Wired magazine's Smart List and Rolling Stone's 100 People Who are Changing America. http://www.nypost.com/seven/04132009/jobs/green_acre_164229.htm

4.07.2009

One Hour Tower: New Project

One Hour Tower:
Part of our on-going critique of rapid prototyping technologies and urban waste dilemmas; see Rapid Re(f)use
"EVERY HOUR
New York produces enough waste to fill the Statue of Liberty"
We propose to make housing units fabricated with material localed in nearby landfills.

Brain Juicer, NYC

Mitchell Joachim presented at Brain Juicer NYC Innovation Event speakers included: Mark Earls, author 'The Herd', social networking guru and former planner at Ogilvy, on his thesis that we're much more influenced by what other people do than we admit or acknowledge - therein lies a significant marketing opportunity . . . and challenge! Alex Gofman, author and thought leader on innovation and market research, VP of Moskowitz Jacobs Inc. on Mind Genomics. Grant McCracken, author/cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, on Deputizing the Consumer as Anthropologist. Faris Yakob, Chief Technology Strategist, McCann Erickson:Thoughts on Social Media: From Technology to Touch. John Kearon, Chief Juicer of the leading international market research agency Brain Juicer: From "Me" to "We"research. Special Thanks: Susan Casserly Griffin http://www.brainjuicer.com/

4.01.2009

Design Green Now

Pratt Institute

April 01, 2009 | Wednesday | 6 - 8:30pm

Welcome and Introduction Andrew Personette - Executive Director, EcoSystems

Presentations by: Paul S. Mankiewicz, PhD - Executive Director - Gaia Institute Jason Salfi - co-founder - Comet Skateboards Andrew H. Dent, PhD. - Vice President, Library and Materials Research - Material ConneXion Mitchell Joachim, PhD - Terreform 1

Moderated Discussion lead by: Dan Rubinstein - Design Editor - Surface Magazine

http://www.designgreennow.com/2009/03/05/pratt-institute-materials/