Bettery Magazine Interview w/ Mitchell Joachim

Bettery Magazine: Mitchell Joachim is a pioneer when it comes to ecological design and architecture. We sat down with the founding co-president of urban think tank Terreform ONE to discuss smart cities, gentrification, and the importance of creatives.
Interview by Alexandra Schade and Lilly Wolf, 2013.
 

Human Ignition: Lotus F1 Race Track Design with Mitchell Joachim

 
Human Ignition is a feature length film investigating the future of F1 and showcasing insight from great minds of Mario Andretti, Harald Belker (Tron Light Cycle, Batmobile), Mitchell Joachim (Terreform ONE), who share a passion for motorsport -- from drivers through to designers.
http://youtu.be/iCh5l1R-HiA

New Model Cities: Rebooting Urban Design

New Model Cities 02: Rebooting Urban Design Energy Economy Ecology
New York State and The Great Lakes Region, Edited by Mojdeh Baratloo 
GSAPP Columbia University, 2013.
"Envisioning Ecological Cities," Mitchell Joachim, pp. 117-124.

NYU Gallatin Faculty Show

Contributors include: Jaime Arrendondo, C. Daniel Dawson, Jeff Day, Martha Diaz, Matthew A.J. Gregory, Louise Harpman, Lanny Harrison, Mitchell Joachim, Nina Katchadourian, Bert Katz, Keith Miller, Meleko Mokgosi, Laurin Raiken, Mark Read, Barnaby Ruhe, Antonio Rutigliano, Salvadore Tagliarino, Greg Wyatt. At The Gallatin Galleries - DEC. 5th - JAN.16th

Terreform ONE - Bio City World Population Map of 11 Billion Video

In the next 100 years we can expect human population to reach 11 billion people. Is this sustainable? We used the Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Map to take a view of the world and look at the 25 densest cities on the planet. Our Bio City Map displays population density as a parametric graph on the front. The backside zooms in on each of these cities designed and built and grown inside petri dishes. We chose colonies of E. Coli as a method of analog computation. Population density was represented in two different forms of bioluminescent E. coli under UV light. Glowing red E. coli represented future projections, while green represented existing conditions in cities. We used the dilution method in biology to show the range of densities of E. coli populations in each petri dish. Stencils derived from CAD files would shape the E. coli into specific geometries that display the current conditions in cities. This is an interdisciplinary project because cartographers, urban planners, biologists, and architects, were all working to think about a map of the near future of human population.

Unconventional Computing, Mitchell Joachim

Unconventional Computing: Design Methods for Adaptive Architecture, Rachel Armstrong (Author, Editor), Simone Ferracina (Editor), ACADIA and Riverside Architectural Press.

"Smart Trash: Transforming Waste Into Building Blocks of the Next City," Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, pp. 66-71.

Smart City Expo World Congress Terreform ONE Exhibit in Barcelona

http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/home

Jpeople Magazine; Future, Here We Come! Towards Eutopia! w/ Mitchell Joachim

Isabel Gahren, "Future, Here We Come! Towards Eutopia!" w/ Mitchell Joachim,
Jpeople No. 17. pp. 6-13.

Smart cities for 11 billion people: Mitchell Joachim at TEDxBerlin

Talking Transition NYC

 

Talking Transition is an open conversation about the future of New York City. Join the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for a conversation on the Innovation Economy. It is critical to introduce policies that support "makers" who are spurring job and economic growth throughout New York City. Panel on innovation moderated by Popular Mechanics magazine featuring MakerBot, FCS Modular, Terreform ONE, Lumi Solair, Industry City Distillery, and NYU Polytechnic. 

http://talkingtransitionnyc.com/

Wired World in 2014 with Mitchell Joachim

"The End of Rubbish," Mitchell Joachim, pp. 48-49, The Wired World in 2014. Editor David Baker. From the creative minds behind WIRED, the recognised authority on the future, THE WIRED WORLD IN 2014 is a new annual trend report that covers a broad range of topics across eight sections; from science to arts, politics to medicine and culture to the environment.
http://gb.zinio.com/www/search/index.jsp?safeMode=false&query=the+wired+world

Bio City Map on POSTmatter and The Creators Project

POSTmatter; "The lurid bacterial visuals are created by using genetically modified, colour tagged E.coli, taking fluorescent genes normally found in jellyfish and sea anemones and inserting them into the bacterial DNA. It sounds menacing, and certainly plays to our collective fears of an impending bio-hacked Armageddon, but it’s precisely these complex ideas surrounding technological progress and its potential threat that the Terreform ONE team is bringing to the surface." -- Jonathan Openshaw http://postmatter.com/#/currents/bio-city-map/ 

New Bio City Map of a Renewable Energy Power Grid for a Planet with Open Geopolitical Boarders - Free Power for All People for Life from Sun, Wind, Geothermal, Biomass, and Hydro sources.
See also: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/world-map-installation-uses-e-coli-and-jellyfish-proteins-to-illuminate-our-population-in-2100

Mini Stacking Electric Cars for China

New Lotus Race Track with Super Cilia Interactive Membrane Surface

Mitchell Joachim Exhibition with Terreform ONE in Toronto

Exhibit - Biological Urbanism: An Opera of Disciplines from Architecture, Landscape, Urban Design, Biology, Engineering and Art. 
Lisa Deanne Smith, Curator, Onsite [at] OCAD U is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between multiple mediums — art, curating, writing and arts administration — exploring issues of voice, experience and power. Recent curatorial projects at Onsite [at] OCAD University include No Dull Affairs: Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese, Jillian McDonald; Ads for People: Selling Ethics in the Digital Age; and I Wonder: Marian Bantjes. She received an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Terreform ONE: Mitchell Joachim, Nurhan Gokturk, Melanie Fessel, Maria Aiolova, and Oliver Medvedik. Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Free and Open to the General Public. see: http://archinode.com/terreform-brochure.pdf

Mitchell Joachim and Terreform in We Demain, France

Christelle Gérand, "Et si l'on faisait pousser les maisons comme des plantes ?" We Demain, No. 5, pp. 136-141. http://www.wedemain.fr/

GOOD Magazine (Re) Design - Mitchell Joachim

Mitchell Joachim, "Extraterritorial Floating House," GOOD, Issue 030 Fall 13, pp. 60-61.
http://www.good.is/posts/let-s-fix-it-fall-2013-good-magazine-s-re-design-issue

Terreform ONE at Navy Yard PechaKucha

BROOKLYN – New York City is at the front end of a technological manufacturing revolution that starts in Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Duggal Greenhouse hosts PechaKucha 14, an evening that brings together the thinkers and backers of the NYC ManRev (manufacturing revolution) to explain the near future. PechaKucha features plenty of familiar, successful faces: 3rd Ward, Northside Film Festival, MakerBot, Shapeways, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, New Lab. Plus a dozen entrepreneurs and scholars who are generating change, studying and improving on the plan.

NYU Environmental Studies Lecture - Future of Ecological Cities

Global warming effects pose new challenges to the architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design communities. The immediate response has been a turn toward a host of energy-saving technologies. What has rarely been addressed, however, is the problem of scale. How can designers make sure that global solutions do not come at the expense of local traditions, cultures, and environments? By placing human rational, emotional, technological, and social needs at the center of our environmental concerns, this seminar proposes a new global design initiative for the future of our cities. The aim is to develop a language of design that can create proximity between individual responsibility and the current global environmental crisis. The featured projects showcase leading-edge innovations at multiple scales. NYU Environmental Studies Department Lecture - Louise Harpman & Mitchell Joachim on the Future of Ecological Cities. Mitchell Joachim and Louise Harpman will present various ways in which their designs reformat the unfortunate separation between humans and the natural world, followed by a discussion led by Peder Anker.

Global Design NYU is the research and design laboratory founded by Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, and Mitchell Joachim.  Their forthcoming book, Global Design (to be published in the spring of 2014) is based on the Global Design New York University GDNYU exhibitions and symposia hosted in New York (2011) and London (2012).  
http://nyudesign.blogspot.com/2013/09/louise-harpman-mitchell-joachim-on.html
http://environment.as.nyu.edu/page/home 

NRC Next, Made by Bacteria, Terreform ONE

Tamar Stelling, "Made by Bacteria," NRC Next, Rotterdam. Oct. 1st, 2013.
Translation (DRAFT) from Dutch printed publication;
"How do we get the eleven billion people who inhabit the earth by 2100 happy, but also sustainable? It is a question that plagues many designers. But, walking through the exhibition in The New Institute in Rotterdam on Biodesign, it seems a possible in the realm of microbes." Overpopulation: "First let's chart how large the population problem is exactly, the curator of Biodesign and author of the book of the same, William Myers had thought. The exhibition opens with the unprecedented work Bio City Map of American art -collective Terreform ONE. A projection of the world map on an expanded, regular icosahedron grid hangs from the ceiling. Each triangular face is a kind of mountain in 3D that a future population density of that area displays. On the back of the system is hanging twenty five petri dishes with two layers of fully-grown, red and green bio-fluorescent E. coli bacteria.""We want to study the population growth in twenty-five big cities with mathematical models, but by looking at how bacteria would breed within the limits of the city," explains Mitchell Joachim, co-founder of Terreform ONE."" The analog study of the growth of bacteria produces potentially more unexpected behavior results in a simulation of growth than in a computer - model." The bacterial growth projections are projected on the wall. Green E.coli indicates the current population of an area, red E.coli is future excesses. How do all those polluting people live later?" 
Living home: "But why stop at a living facade? Terraform ONE opens up a whole house for living, the Fab Tree Hab, with load - bearing walls of living trees."
http://tamarstelling.nl/includes/artikelen/features/Made%20by%20bacterien.pdf 

Bio City World Map of 11 Billion People in 2110

In the next 100 years we can expect human population to reach 11 billion people. What does this increased massive growth look like? We used a Dymaxion map grid to communicate an all-encompassing view of world population density in cities through data. The map visualizes the earth as one entire urbanized place, instead of unconnected settlements, towns, municipalities, and disparate regions. Our Bio City Map displays population density as a parametric graph on the front and the back is made with living biosynthetic matter. These living elements focus on numerous mega-city inhabitants, genetically designed and grown inside petri dishes. Our novel approach experimented with living populations that consisted of hundreds of thousands of bacteria colonies. We preferred to graph population density with actual colonies that were alive to challenge typical computer driven processes.

We chose colonies of E. coli as a method of analog computation using synthetic biology. Population density was represented in two different forms of bioluminescent E. coli under UV light. Glowing red E. coli represented future census projections, while green represented existing demographic conditions you would find in cities. We used the dilution method in biology to show the range of densities of E. coli populations in each petri dish. Micro-stencils derived from CAD files shaped the E. coli into specific geometries that display the current geopolitical boundaries in cities.

Why should this be considered for an Innovation Award? This is an interdisciplinary project that involved cartographers, urban planners, biologists, and architects, which completed a manifestation of the near future for human population density. We argue that most nations cannot view the effects of planetary population density through the lens of just one city or region. Instead we aimed to reveal the long-range effects of immense human population in areas of present and speculative urban intensity. Moreover, we expanded the technique of "bacteriography" (bacteria photography) to shift scale and underscore the highest zones of growth.

Ultimately, the bacterial shapes grow to reveal variant patterns of biological transformation in urban regions. By using biosynthetic based materials, we expect to narrow the gap between idealized mathematical interpretations and observable events in nature.

Our team consisted of a consortium of individuals trained and/or working at the Harvard University Medical School, Harvard GSD, MIT Media Lab, NYU, Cooper Union, and local nonprofit organizations.

 Terreform ONE; Mitchell Joachim, Nurhan Gokturk, Melanie Fessel, Maria Aiolova, Oliver Medvedik. Research Fellows; Chloe Byrne, Adrian De Silva, Daniel Dewit, Renee Fayzimatova, Alena Field, Nicholas Gervasi, Julien Gonzalez, Lucas Hamren, Patty Kaishian, Ahmad Khan, Laasyapriya Malladi, Karan Maniar, Ricardo Martin Coloma, Puja Patel, Merve Poyraz, Mina Rafiee, Mahsoo Salimi, Manjula Singh, Diego Wu Law.


-------------------------------------------------------------------- previous text;
The Bio City World Map is a forecast of the world population density in the next 100 years. It has been modeled by combining all the world cities together as one continuous growth system. The current phenomena of explosive growth - the "Mega-city" (Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Lagos) and the "Instant City" (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Zhengzhou, Ordos) merge together into a continuous urban construct. As human population expands, we see it as one single macro city spread across the continents. Other cities, mainly in the developed world, (Detroit, Leipzig, Manchester) demonstrate the opposite tendency, because they are shrinking at a significant rate. 
We argue that most nations cannot view the effects of planetary population density through the lens of just one city or region. Instead we aim to reveal the long-range effects of massive human population in areas of present and future urban intensity. 
On the reverse side of the mapping installation are focal points of biological details in specific localized city forms. They zoom in on density zones that are dispersed throughout the globe. These points use the technique of "bacteriography" (bacteria photography) to shift scale and underscore the highest zones of growth. Our method creates a real-time parametric display using Gammaproteo Bacterium Escherichia coli Strain K12 in agar medium that has been genetically modified to express color under UV light. The strains used are harmless variants of E. coli, commonly studied all across Europe and the United States. They have been utilized in schools for decades without any safety issues and are considered non-pathogenic and innocuous. 
The Bio City World Map forms have been transformed with DNA that encodes fluorescent proteins found in sea anemones and jellyfish. This enables those bacteria to emit red, green, yellow and blue light under long wave UV bulbs. The fluorescent proteins are based on the discoveries of Shimomura, Chalfie and Tsien, who were honored with a Nobel Prize for their work in 2008. Ultimately, the bacterial photos grow to reveal variant patterns of biological transformation in urban regions. 
Rather than using computer code to mimic growth in nature, this method is the actual iterative vehicle of growth itself. Bacteria in this constrained form and under the right conditions, behave almost identically to urban population patterns. Moreover, the resolution of these bio-based city patterns will change with more nuanced biological inputs. In many cases, they are as good as computational versions because they are the source which algorithms are derived from. In time, the mapping installation may illustrate patterns yet unobserved in typical digital models. It is this emergent and unfettered map of population we wish to make into spectacle. By using bio lab based materials, we expect to narrow the gap between idealized mathematical interpretations and observable events in nature. 

Fab Tree Hab in Wired UK

Growing shoes and furniture: a design-led bio-material revolution, Wired UK.

by Liat Clark

En Vie (Alive), curated by Reader and Deputy Director of the Textile Futures Research Centre at Central Saint Martins College Carole Collet, is an exposition for what happens when material scientists, architects, biologists and engineers come together with designers to ask what the future will look like. According to them, it will be a world where plants grow our products, biological fabrication replaces traditional manufacturing, and genetically reprogrammed bacteria build new materials, energy or even medicine.