By Stacey Szewczyk, Tech Times | December 29, 2015
Workplace directives to "think outside of the box" have become as
commonplace as telecommuting and space sharing, but true innovation
remains rare. What if your company's mandate was to reinvent the wheel? Terreform ONE is
a Brooklyn-based design studio that uses design-thinking, biological
engineering and a mixed bag of uncategorizable disciplines to do just
that."A lot of what we're doing is in the realm of science and also in the realm of policy regulation," says co-founder Mitchell Joachim from his Brooklyn Navy Yard workshop, where projects resembling grass-sprouting lunar modules wait beside seats shaped like dinosaur vertebrae for their runs on the world's production lines. They're baffling at first glance but, once explained, they make enough design sense to have a decent shot at market attention in the next decade.
