7.30.2015

The Atlantic LIVE with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

LIVE: Framing the Future: Art, Tech and What We'll Become.
Fred Dust, Partner IDEO
Mitchell Joachim, Co-Founder Terreform ONE
Derek Thompson, Senior Editor The Atlantic

The program will feature immersive content and large-scale art installations that bring to life transformative tech in fields like health, urban design, energy and the environment. 
http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/framing-the-future/2015/?fb_ref=Default  

7.28.2015

1st Place International Architecture Awards Terreform ONE

Terreform ONE has WON 1st Place for the International Architecture Awards (IAA) 2015 in Urban Design.
Jury included: Jing Liu (SO-IL), Preston Scott Cohen (USA), Keith Griffiths (Chairman, Aedas), Weichi Chen (Perkins Eastman), Gurjit Singh Matharoo (India).
http://www.architecturepodium.org/portfolio/resilient-water-infrastructure-terreform-one/

7.20.2015

Mitchell Joachim selected in "50 Under 50"

Mitchell Joachim, NYU/ Terreform ONE was honored as one of the "Fifty Under Fifty: Innovators of the 21st Century," by jury, Stanley Tigerman, Jeanne Gang, Qingyun Ma, and Marion Weiss. Images Publishing Group (IMAGES) have released a monograph that highlights key projects. Beverly Russell, Eva Maddox, and Farooq Ameen have written the book. As a winner of the award a section in the book showcases: Urbaneering Brooklyn 2110 Self-Sufficient City, Fab Tree Hab: An Edible Prefab Home for Humanity, and Bio City Map of 11 Billion.


Russell, Beverly, Maddox Eva, and Farooq Ameen (eds). “Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE,” Fifty Under Fifty: Innovators of the 21st Century, Images Publishing, 2015. pp. 220-225.
http://imagespublishing.com/products/fifty-under-fifty-innovators-of-the-21st-century

2050: Designing Our Tomorrow, Mitchell Joachim with Terreform ONE

"A Century of Ecological Innovation," Mitchell Joachim, 2050: Designing Our Tomorrow, Chris Luebkeman (ed.), AD (Architectural Design), Wiley, July/Aug. No. 236, pp. 68-73, 135.

7.01.2015

How to Stop Humans From Filling the World With Trash with Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE


The Atlantic, Alana Semuels, July/August 2015 Issue
"How to Stop Humans From Filling the World With Trash" 
From the article: Skyscrapers Made of Garbage
We already turn water bottles into fleece, plastic bags into deck material, roofing into pavement. But ideas abound for more-futuristic forms of recycling. Mitchell Joachim, a co-founder of Terreform ONE, a design firm based in New York, proposes crushing trash and molding it into Tetris‑esque blocks that we could use to build islands and skyscrapers. Joachim’s firm has created architectural plans for a 53-story tower made with the waste New Yorkers produce in 24 hours. A group in Guatemala called Pura Vida is already working on a low-tech version of the same idea; it promotes the use of a building material it calls an “eco-block”—just a plastic bottle stuffed with trash—that it says makes for excellent insulation and is safe in earthquakes.

Joachim, of Terreform ONE, says the planned obsolescence of products should be outlawed. So-called extended-producer-responsibility laws could require manufacturers to fund and manage the recycling of their goods so that the private sector, rather than the public, is responsible for products at the end of their life, giving companies an incentive to make their products last longer. The beginning of the cycle, not the end, might be when we can most effectively eliminate trash. 
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/future-of-trash/395279/