11.30.2014

CNN - Tech Behind Smart Cities w/ Mitchell Joachim


Solving parking crisesForget flying cars, city dwellers have more to gain from cars that stack. The idea of folding cars isn't new, but as urban parking spots become increasingly rare (and expensive), it's begun to look more promising. As a Ph.D. student at MIT, Mitchell Joachim was part of a group of researchers who came up with the idea of stackable cars. More than 10 years later, he's still hoping that car manufacturers will start producing cars like them. (He's developed a new iteration of the folding cars at his firm, Terreform ONE, a Brooklyn-based lab that experiments with innovative green designs.)
Ideally, the cars would be owned by the city and used by residents for daily commuting, alleviating traffic congestion. (There's been interest from governments in Spain and Berlin, but the funding has fallen short so far.) Think of it as a bike-sharing system merged with Zipcar. "When you're done using it, you'd leave it for other people," said Joachim. 
BY SARA ASHLEY O'BRIEN
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2014/11/11/innovative-city-tech/5.html

International Luxury Conference in Miami with Mitchell Joachim

The Next Big Thing Mitchell Joachim
The New York Times International Luxury Conference will be held for the first time in the United States December 1-3. Join Deborah Needleman, editor in chief, T Magazine, and Vanessa Friedman, fashion director, The New York Times, to explore how the fields of art, fashion and technology can be utilized and maximized to enhance the unique value of luxury companies and products.
http://www.inytluxury.com

Biofabricate Event w/ Mitchell Joachim

BIOFABRICATE is the world’s first summit dedicated to biofabrication for future industrial and consumer products. Biofabrication comprises highly disruptive technologies enabling design and manufacturing to intersect with the building blocks of life. Computers can now read and write with DNA. This is a world where bacteria, yeast, fungi, algae and mammalian cells grow and shape sustainable new materials.
Organized by Suzanne Lee and Biocouture.
http://www.biofabricate.co

11.11.2014

Visualized Conference - Mitchell Joachim

BIOLOGY AND FUTURE CITIES

ACSA Expanse Conference w/ Mitchell Joachim

http://www.acsa-arch.org/docs/default-source/conferences-files/program_online.pdf?sfvrsn=2

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Co-chairs: Winka Dubbeldam, UPenn + Nader Tehrani, MIT
Speakers:
Mitchell Joachim NYU, Terreform ONE
Robert Gerard Pietrusko Harvard
Rodolphe el-Khoury U. of Miami
David Benjamin Columbia U.
Peter Testa SCI-Arc
Skylar Tibbits MIT
Anna Dyson RPI
Simon Kim PennDesign
Evan Douglis RPI

11.05.2014

Lecture at Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace w/ Mitchell Joachim

"The Next Big Shift: Urbanism Redefined," Presented by Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE at Monona Terrace, Madison, WI. 
http://www.mononaterrace.com/

MSN News - Sustainable cities of the future w/ Terreform ONE, Mitchell Joachim

MSN news: Mitchell Joachim is one of the world's leading innovators in ecological design and architecture. Through his firm Terreform ONE he invents a variety of sustainable proposals that fit in with the natural world rather than fighting against it, and one of the studio's most well-known projects is the Fab Tree Hab, shown here.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/tomorrow/sustainable-cities-of-the-future/ss-BBcJSXK#image=1