The Architect's Newspaper By Allan Horton, November 26, 2025.
"The 2025 Urban Tech Summit continues to promote forward-looking discussions"
The recent Urban Tech Summit at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island in New York City was highlighted as a platform for visionary dialogue about the future of cities. Terreform ONE’s executive director Mark Chambers and cofounder Mitchell Joachim opened the event with a keynote emphasizing multi-species design and a radically ecological approach to architecture. They outlined a future in which non-human life, like crickets and butterflies, are treated as clients, materials are fully biodegradable, landscapes double as data centers, and joy becomes a driving force in combating human extinction. Their message set an optimistic, imaginative tone for the summit and reinforced Terreform ONE’s leadership in redefining design for planetary wellbeing.
Quote from the article; "National nonprofit Terreform ONE’s executive director Mark Chambers, along with professor and cofounder, Mitchell Joachim, set a positive tone in their opening keynote as they described a “multi-species” design approach in which crickets and butterflies are clients, everything in life can be biodegradable, landscape could be the new data center, and joy is the best mechanism for combating human extinction."
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/11/2025-urban-tech-summit-forward-looking-discussions/