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