WIRED: The 2008 Smart List - 15 People The Next President Should Listen To

The 2008 Smart List: "Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities from Scratch" by Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 16.10, pp. 178-9. Oct. 2008. Photo: Bruce Gilden, Illustration: Christoph Niemann http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_joachim

Cal Poly Hearst Lecture: Ecotransology

2008-2009 Hearst Lecture Series . Hosted by Cal Poly's College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Dr. Joachim will be presenting; Ecotransolgy, Nov. 21st. 4pm at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Foro de Arquitectura 2008 - ACTION:REACTION

Dr. Joachim will be presenting the work of Terreform 1 at Foro de Arquitectura 2008 - COM:PLOT. Oct. 5th-8th in Guadalajara, Mexico. Special Thanks: Louis Cespedes, CITA. http://www.infotectura.org/2008.htm

Exhibition at Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera, Prague

Terreform 1 opens a new "Green" Exhibition Oct. 29th at The Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague. Lecture in Gallery, Oct. 30th. Sponsored by the U.S. Embassy. Also a "Green Festival" with other participants that include: Colin Fournier, Mathias Sauerbruch, Stefan Behnisch, Georg W. Reinberg, and Martin Treberspurg. Special Thanks: Klára Pučerová, Dan Merta, Zuzana Walter, Petr Knobloch.

New Book: Sonhos Dreams w/ Terreform 1

Sonhos - Dreams

by Bernardo Senna, Viana & Mosley Editora, 2008.

ISBN 978-85-88721-46-3

The book presents unbuilt idealized projects by professionals in the areas of design and architecture. The works of 40 designers are displayed from various countries: Dima Komissarov, Dominique Perrault, Fumie Shibata, Jean Marie Massaud, Jyrki Tasa, Ken Yeang, Korban / Flaubert, Mana Bernardes, Manuelle Gautrand, Marzio Fiorini, Matali Crasset, Michael Jantzen, Nigel Coates, Panatda Manurasda / Studiobo, Piercy Conner, Querkraft, Roberto Verschleisser, Richard Hutten, Sérgio Rodrigues, Stephen Burks, Seymourpowell, Toshihiko Suzuki, Youngju Oh Zuii Design Studio, and Mitchell Joachim.

In Vitro Meat Habitat

This is an architectural proposal for the fabrication of 3D printed extruded pig cells to form real organic dwellings. It is intended to be a "victimless shelter", because no sentient being was harmed in the laboratory growth of the skin. We used sodium benzoate as a preservative to kill yeasts, bacteria and fungi. Other materials in the model matrix are; collagen powder, xanthan gum, mannitol, cochineal, sodium pyrophosphate, and recycled PET plastic scaffold.

Terreform 1: Mitchell Joachim, Eric Tan, Oliver Medvedik, Maria Aiolova

CNN cover story: Fab Tree Hab + Mushroom + MATscape Homes

Just Imagine...what life will be like in 2020? Home sweet... jellyfish! Architects share their vision of what homes of the future will look like. Fancy living in a home shaped like a mushroom or an edible tree house? see our Mushroom House, Fab Tree Hab, and MATscape dwellings. images by Mitchell Joachim http://edition.cnn.com/ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/04/future.houses/index.html Special Thanks to Lisa Botter

NextWorld on Discovery premieres Aug. 6th

See our work at Terreform 1 and many others in the premier episode of NEXTWORLD. This 14 hour documentary series on the Discovery Channel premieres Wednesday, August 6th at 8pm. The series will air every Wednesday at 8pm for the following 13 weeks. NEXTWORLD explores some of the truly amazing technologies, science, ideas and products that we will encounter over the next 20 years. What was learned during this show has made us wonderfully optimistic about our future. So much is possible: we will grow new brain cells and end Alzheimer's, travel to Mars, drive morphing cars, watch stunningly real holographic actors on Broadway, create energy to power cities using our footsteps, and routinely live beyond a century. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/next-world/next-world.html Special Thanks: Rob Cohen -Executive Producer NextWorld, Dena Goldstein, and Betty Chu.

La bionique: Fab Tree Hab

Agnès Guillot & Jean-Arcady Meyer, La bionique: Quand la science imite la nature, p. 23, Dunod, Paris, 2008.
http://www.dunod.com/pages/ouvrages/ficheouvrage.asp?id=50635

EdA Architecture Magazine: Fab Tree Hab

Maurizio Meossi, "Veget-arch. Quando l'Architettura diviene Natura," EdA esempi di Architettura, il prato, pp. 182- 187, anno I, n. 3/2007. http://www.esempidiarchitettura.it/

Teaching at Parsons

Mitchell Joachim will be teaching Environmental Design at Parsons The New School for Design in NYC.

Lecture at University in Guatemala

Ecotransology, Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala School of Architecture, Aug. 18th, 2008. Universidad Francisco Marroquí­n, Facultad de Arquitectura, 6 Calle final, zona 10Edificio Académico, D-614, Guatemala, Guatemala.

New Museum of Contemporary Art Panel Presentaion

Panel: The Visual Rhetoric of Environmentalism for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, "After Nature," exhibition. As scientific consensus about global warming gains traction with the public, this panel explores how such knowledge—and the environmental strategies it prompts—should be expressed visually. Panelists: Dr. Cameron Tonkinwise, Charles M. Blow, and Mitchell Joachim. Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com. Saturday, August 16, at 3PM New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY. http://www.newmuseum.org/events/220

Fab Tree Hab on HGTV Extreme Living

Home & Garden TV FAB TREE HAB: Imagine the day when tree houses are no longer just for kids, when adults will actually get to live in a fully-functional home morphed out of living, breathing trees. Thank You: Lightworks-KPI Productions, Andrea Pilat, Mashizan Masjum, Joanne Azern, Sarah Hodgson, Neri Oxman, Jesse Dobbie, Christopher Cassel, Tim McGarvey, Bob & Lauren Sarafan, Richard Reames, and more... AIR TIMES: July 13, 2008 10:00 PM ET/PT July 14, 2008 2:00 AM ET/PT September 04, 2008 9:30 PM ET/PT September 05, 2008 1:30 AM ET/PT http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/shows_hxmlv/episode/0,3200,HGTV_31776_58083,00.html

Kate Orff Studio Review at GSAPP

On jury for Kate Orff, Principal of Scape, Adv. Arch. mid-review, July 09 at Columbia, entitled CarboNYC. Students are looking at 3 sites and programs as a way to critique, participate in and visualize the Mayor's PLANYC 2030 initiative to reduce carbon emissions by 30%. --Looks Great!

Fab Tree Hab at MoMA, July 20-Oct 20

Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
July 20th – October 20th, 2008.
The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor
Fab Tree Hab
Video installation, 2003-2008.
Mitchell Joachim, Terreform 1
Lara Greden, Javier Arbona.

QuickTime Movie: Fab Tree Hab

Special Thanks: Joey Forsyte, Velocity Filmworks, Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen, Graham Murdoch, Edward Ward.

Urban Design Panel, 6/27 @ 6pm, Columbia U.

Urban Design Panel:

"Sustainable Cities" Fri. June 27th @ 6-8pm Room 114, Avery Hall Columbia University Speakers: Mellisa Wright (Mayor's Office for Longterm Planning and Sustainability), Melissa Keeley (Earth Institute, Columbia University, Tobias Holler (Cook + Fox Architects, NY), Mitchell Joachim (Terreform, NY)

Walt Disney R&D presentation

We had a great presentation and discussion at Walt Disney R&D in Glendale, CA. Thank you very much to the fantastic and green VP Dr. Ben Schwegler for being such a gracious host. FACTS: Walt Disney Imagineering is the master planning, creative development, design, engineering, production, project management, and research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company and its affiliates. Representing more than 150 disciplines, its talented corps of Imagineers is responsible for the creation of Disney resorts, theme parks and attractions, hotels, water parks, real estate developments, regional entertainment venues, cruise ships and new media technology projects.

Earth & Sky Radio: Cities and Cars

Recipe for a sustainable city Earth & Sky - Austin, TX. Mitchell Joachim: Location is everything. It’s a little too nebulous to say that, ‘here’s a ton of money — please give me a city from scratch... Written by Jeremy Shere http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52578/recipe-for-a-sustainable-city Cars of the future Earth & Sky Mitchell Joachim: It’s really not the car that’s the problem — it’s everything from the wheel to the notion of mobility and travel in places, ... Written by Jeremy Shere http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52580/cars-of-the-future

Winners: Architecture for Humanity and AMD

Architecture for Humanity and AMD are pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge: Digital Inclusion. The global design competition invited architects, designers and others to develop sustainable designs for technology facilities in communities that lack access to computing power. The competition received 566 registered entries from 57 countries. Fifth Place: Chocologia Washington University, St. Louis, MO. USA 1953_Kallari Faculty Advisor: Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. Student Team: Laura Anderson- M. Arch. Carmen Cervantes- M. Arch. Lucy Colville- B.A. Cultural Geography Irene Compadre- B.A. Arch & B.F.A. Sculpture Mason Earles- Coordinator, B.A. Urban Studies Amelia Einbender-Leiber- B.A. Arch. Jake Levitas- Coordinator, B.A. Economics & Environmental Studies Emily Schlickman- B.A. International Studies & Environmental Studies Researchers: Alex Adarichev- B.A. Arch. Tess Croner- B.S. Environmental Studies Jen Fleming- M.Arch. Columbia University Brian Maurizi- PhD candidate in Mathematics Daniel Payne- B.S. Civil Engineering & Physics Jacob Rohter- B.S. Environmental Studies Jono Sanders- B.S. Mechanical Engineering David Sin- M.Arch. Columbia University

The real and the imaginary: Mitchell Joachim

L to R:
Walter Isaacson
Peter Head
Dickson Despommier
Majora Carter
Mitchell Joachim
Blaine Brownell

Science Magazine
"The real and the imaginary"
by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
The event wasn't so much about science as it was about development. Among the speakers were Mitchell Joachim, a New York designer who won the 2007 Time magazine inventor of the year award for designing -- along with MIT -- a compact, stackable city car, and Blaine Brownell (left), a University of Michigan materials researcher and architect who specializes in eco-friendly building materials.
Joachim wowed the audience with the imaginary. The animation videos he presented featured not just the stackable car -- the design of the stackable car, that is -- but also ideas such as trees networked together into natural green homes.
Brownell was next, and he riveted the audience with the real.
He didn't have videos to show; he wheeled onto the stage a cart loaded with eco-materials like polymeric fabric that converts light to power and countertop surfaces made from factory scrap. Many of these materials are already on the market or close to it, says Brownell, who is on a mission to popularize their use.
I don't know when I'll get to drive Joachim's vision: a car that bunches up like a ladder so you can park 800 of them on a New York city block and communicates with other cars to warn them about a new pothole. To me, it's a shining example of the imaginary part of science, which is often the driver of the real.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/newsblog/2008/05/the-real-and-th.html#more

NY Times: Future Cities — and Festivals?

Future Cities — and Festivals? June 2, 2008 By John Tierney A Friday evening panel called “Future Cities” at the World Science Festival in New York, however, racked up points for positive thinking by taking its audience on virtual tours of skyscraper-farms powered by the sun; publicly-shared, zero-emission cars that can be stacked to fit 880 on a New York City block and homes made by grafting the branches of living trees. Many of the designs on display could take decades to become a reality. But that didn’t stop the audience, packed into an auditorium at New York University on a warm spring evening, from oohing and ahhing.

How will cities of the future look? ABC News

"Soft Cars," is a concept by Terreform1, a design collaborative that integrates ecological principles into urban environments. The concept not only re-invents mobility as a designed object but also redefines the user's relationship to the city. (Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Terreform) http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/technology&id=6173998

Joachim on Mongabay

Future cities will be more like ecosystems that enrich society and the environment Tina Butler, mongabay.com May 30, 2008 http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0530-tina_joachim.html

Discovery Channel: Mitchell Joachim

Not the Usual Doom and Gloom

by Nicholas Scalera

http://blogs.discovery.com/world_science_festival/

Discover Magazine at Future Cities Panel:

DIscoblog MIT’s media lab was present at the event with architect Mitchell Joachim representing. In true media lab form, Joachim came with the most far out idea of the night: Floating megacities. After climate change drowns many of our biggest cities, proposes Joachim, we just pull anchor and float them all to a location at the North Pole to create a “mega mega city.” This means New York, Hong Kong, London, and a dozen more major cities floating on some sort of barge in a dome to live together in harmony (needless to say, the details were fuzzy). Let’s hope we never see the day this plan needs legs. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/31/world-science-fair-radically-green-future-cities/

ABC News: Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform 1

Climate Concerns Shape the Cities of Tomorrow The Future of Urban Life Looks 'Green,' Say Experts By NED POTTER May 29, 2008 http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GadgetGuide/story?id=4954102&page=1

Terreform in Orange Life Magazine

Living in Trees by Gracie Leavitt http://www.orangelifemagazine.com/tag/terreform/

Terreform in Artdaily

Jane Marsching and Mitchell Joachim/Terreform travel even further afield – and into the future – with Arctic Listening Post (2006-present), an inter-disciplinary multimedia project that deals with historic impressions of the Arctic and how we can imagine a future there. With the fanciful air of Jules Verne, Marsching and Mitchell Joachim/Terreform are working in collaboration with scientists, architects, artists and even science fiction writers to conceive how we could sustain life at the North Pole in 100 years. http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24361

Badlands published - MASS MoCA & MIT Press

Badlands

New Horizons in Landscape

Edited by Denise Markonish
Foreword by Joseph Thompson

Mitchell Joachim/Terreform,

Jane Marsching.

pp. 114-116, 220.

MASS MoCA & MIT press, 2008.

Artists: Robert Adams, Vaughn Bell, Boyle Family, Melissa Brown, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide, J. Henry Fair, Mike Glier, Anthony Goicolea, Marine Hugonnier, Paul Jacobsen, Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform, Nina Katchadourian, Jane Marsching, Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Smolinski, Yutaka Sone, Jennifer Steinkamp, Mary Temple.

MASS MoCA Opens Tomorrow: Future North

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape Opens May 24, 2008. Future North: Jane Marsching and Mitchell Joachim/Terreform travel even further afield – and into the future – with Arctic Listening Post, an inter-disciplinary multimedia project that deals with historic impressions of the Arctic and how we can imagine a future there. With the fanciful air of Jules Verne, Marsching and Mitchell Joachim/Terreform are working in collaboration with scientists, architects, artists and even science fiction writers to conceive how we could sustain life at the North Pole in 100 years.

Fab Tree Hab in YER Magazine, Turkey

published by Dost Kip, Editor of the YER Magazine Argos Communications Inc. next issue available in June 2008. www.argos.com.tr

Future for All with Fab Tree Hab

Future Home, Fab Tree Hab by John LaSage, Founder, FutureForAll.org What could be in the house of the future? Here are some things you might find in a futuristic home. http://www.futureforall.org/home/homeofthefuture.htm

Fab Tree Hab in next Orange Life magazine

see next issue of Orange Life by Gracie Leavitt Orange Life is about thought and culture, and it's unapologetically sophisticated. Broadly, Orange Life is focused on the impact of a changing world on all aspects of our lives. Leaving aside cliches about the accelerated pace of this still-new century, Orange Life provides original perspectives on a world that is undoubtedly more complex and interrelated. Orange Life is a hybrid of the frivolous and the serious, in which it's at once OK to consider real and serious issues, and to embrace the small, the intimate and the everyday. http://www.orangelifemagazine.com/current-issue.html

Archinode Studio in TASARIM magazine

Next issue of Tasarim magazine features; SOFT Cars, Fab Tree Hab, MATscape, Mushroom + Snail Houses by Sanel San

BG Magazine Interview w/ Mitchell Joachim

Next issue of Bg Magazine profiles the work of Archinode Studio by Ángeles Martínez, Editor http://www.bgmagazine.com.ec/

Super Cilia inside INFORM

Super Cilia Skin in the next issue of Inform Design Magazine by Geraldine Zschocke http://www.inform-magazin.com/

Talk Radio with Dr. Joachim

EarthSky Communications, interview by Jeremy Shere, Ph.D., May 16, 2008. Good News Broadcast, production by Paul Sladkus, May 16, 2008. KAOS Radio WA, interview by Kim Dobson, May 22, 2008.

Bauwelt 19.08 Out Now

Mitchell Joachim, "08 Skyscraper Competition," Bauwelt, pp. 20-21, May 9th, 2008.
Die Organisation eVolo lobte zum dritten Mal einen Wettbewerb aus, der nach architektonischen Visionen für das 21. Jahrhundert sucht. Angesichts weltweit wachsender Großstädte ging es in diesem Jahr um "vertikale Dichte". Mitchell Joachim, Preisträger 2006 und Jurymitglied 2007, erläutert, warum der Wettbewerb aus seiner Sicht ein Beitrag zum umweltfreundlichen Bauen ist.
http://www.bauwelt.de/sixcms_4/sixcms/list.php?page=pg_bauwelt_startseite

Dr. J. + Evil Twin Booking Agency

Dr. Mitchell Joachim is represented by Scott Beibin of Evil Twin Booking Agency for future events/actions/lectures/film/TV appearances. Evil Twin Booking Agency helps you bring politically charged and culturally challenging media to college campuses, theaters, infoshops, community centers, squats, microcinemas, dance clubs, caves and other venues throughout North America, Europe and South America. We manage tours and appearances for today's most prominent politically conscious speakers, authors, films and performers including: Dead Prez, Lost Film Fest, The Yes Men, Who Killed the Electric Car, Why We Fight, FOUND magazine, Bernardine Dohrn, Scream Club, The Corporation, Timothy Speed Levitch, Boots Riley, and more. http://www.eviltwinbooking.org/index.cfm

Columbia GSAPP Visual Studies EVENT

VS CAD Show Wed. May 14th @ 7pm We will be showing work from: Tilling Education: An Eco Aesthetic Approach, 2008. Dr. Mitchell Joachim, Adjunct Assistant Professor Columbia University, GSAPP TA: Michael Contento Coordinator: Josh Uhl

Synergy Conference: The Evergreen State College

The Synergy Conference is a local event with a global message. The mission is simple; the integrations of diverse aspects of life into a sustainable model for our societies future. The event was introduced because the founding groups and individuals believed in combining issues of culture, design, ecology, agriculture and social justice and critically analyze their interconnectedness. The goal of the events is to create a collective vision and model of sustainability.

Dr. Mitchell Joachim

Thur. 5/22/08 @ 6:00 P.M. Lecture Hall 1

The Evergreen State College

Olympia, WA.

http://www.evergreen.edu/events/synergy/

Art Daily: 01SJ Global Festival

ZER01 Invites the World To Experience Art on the Edge at 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival Jane Marsching and Mitchell Joachim (Terrefrom) http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23832

New Book - eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century

eVolo: Skyscraper for the XXI Century by Carlo Aiello, "PeristalCity," eVolo Publishing, pp.14-15, 2008. http://www.evolo-arch.com/evolo.swf