9.22.2010

Speaking at PICNIC

Mitchell Joachim and Oliver Medvedik have performed a BioDesign workshop and presented a lecture at Picnic, Amsterdam 2010.

The PICNIC name represents everything we strive to be. People from diverse backgrounds come to exchange ideas and insight in an informal, social atmosphere. PICNIC is about innovative ideas for business and society. It is an annual three-day festival that blurs the lines between creativity, science, technology and business to explore new solutions in the spirit of co-creation. Curious minds eager to exchange their knowledge, ideas and skills gather at PICNIC, making it the place to create the future – together.

9.16.2010

Contemporary Digital Architecture: Terreform ONE

Contemporary Digital Architecture: Design and Techniques, Dimitris Kottas

This book presents the latest developments in the field of architecture as it has been reshaped by the use of digital technologies. The last few years, technological developments in both hardware and software have enabled the realization of ideas that until now were only presented as theories, and have also opened new and unexpected areas of experimentation. The new digital technologies are influencing every stage of the creative process from the initial exploration of ideas to the construction of the final work and its interaction with the user. These developments are presented in four chapters, each one including detailed presentation of the most important relevant projects and general theoretical-technical information.

Czech Center launches new public art

The Czech Center will prepare a series of exhibitions by contemporary Czech and international artists that will be presented on the windows of the building at 1109-1111 on Madison Avenue where the permanent mission of the Czech Republic to the UN in New York is located. The aim of the project is to address the broad public that walks by on this luxurious avenue and to use this space for a dialogue of artists with the public.

We hope that the WINDOWS ON MADISON will offer a space for contacts and exchanges between Czech and American art communities and become another attraction on the Museum Mile.

Terreform ONE

The first project poses the question “What is the future of the future? ” and confronts passersby with the statement “Yesterday we dreamt about the future, today the future dreams about us”.

The project originated in collaboration between the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, which recently organized the exhibition The Future of the Future, and the New York group of architects, designers and scientists called Terreform One. Two windows on Madison Ave. display Terreform’s designs for future means of transportation in New York City and other big cities, such as the SOFT Jetpack and the SOFT Blimp Bumper Bus.

9.12.2010

American Society of Landscape Architects 2010 Expo in DC

Lecture - Mowing to Growing: Rethinking the American Lawn Featured Speakers: Maria Aiolova, LEED AP, and Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE http://www.asla.org/2010meeting/edSessionsSun1.html

9.02.2010

Science is Culture

Seed Media Group has announced that the Seed Salon with Thomas E. Lovejoy and Mitchell Joachim has just been printed as part of Science is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Culture. Harper Perennial, 2010. I'm very glad to be a part of this important book, and extend my warmest regards to Adam Bly and Seed.

The Prague Post: Viewing the present through the future

Prague Post, by Caroline Korsawe

DOX exhibition is part of an international art trend that is looking ahead.

"Joachim embraces the future by specializing in dreaming up environmentally sustainable cities. He is part of Terreform ONE, a nonprofit group specializing in such themes.

With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, Joachim believes it is important to understand the consequences human civilization has on the world's ecosystems. He designed a future model of Brooklyn for the DOX exhibition."

http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/5484-viewing-the-present-through-the-future.html

Imaginarium exhibition in Berlin w/ Terreform 1

Studio Lukas Feireiss and Tomorrow's Thoughts Today with Luis BerrĂ­os-NegrĂłn cordially invite you to the Imaginarium – Thursday, 02. September 2010, 19:00 – 2 A+P/A, AMID (Cero9), Rachel Armstrong, Tuur van Balen, Christoph DM Barlieb, Philip Beesley, Friedrich von Borries, Vincent Callebaut, Revital Cohen Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser, Justine Cooper, Ecosistema urbano, Eric Ellingsen, Love Enqvist, finsterwalderarchitekten, Vincent Fournier, Lynn Fox, Terunobu Fujimori, Thomas GrĂĽnfeld, Ilkka Halso, Husos with Francisco Amaro, Theo Jansen, Christian Kerrigan, Greg Lynn, Ton Matton, JĂĽrgen Mayer H., Lucy McRae, Achim Menges, Nomadisch GrĂĽn, Anton Markus Pasing, Phillipe Rahm, Francois Roche, Christiane Sauer, Terreform 1, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Why Factory, Triptyque, Mas Yendo, Liam Young. The Imaginarium is part of the exhibition 'Examples to Follow! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability' curated by Adrienne Goehler. September 3 - October 10, 2010; Tue - Sun 12 -8 pm, Thu 12 -10 pm, closed on Mondays Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin-Wedding, www.z-n-e.info