Co-Founders Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova awarded EUR 60,000
At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February, an international jury selected this year's winners of the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. The award in the "Research & Initiative" category went to the non-profit design group Terreform ONE, jointly founded by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the project "New York City Resource & Mobility", a visionary plan for New York City that converts waste to buildings and reinvents the city transit system. The work for this on-going urban project is fundamentally based on the activist notions of self-reliance in the profound writings of Henry David Thoreau, Bill Mollison, Buckminster Fuller, and William Mcdonough.
"This project is a rich source of interesting ideas of real substance. The research team is not afraid to think in whole new directions and presents a range of visionary potential approaches that are already acting as catalysts in the urban development debate." - jury
The winners were selected by interdisciplinary and international jury of leading architects from different parts of the world, an engineer, a representative of the UN, and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group, including:
Stefan Behnisch, (Chairman) Architect / Behnisch Architects, Stuttgart (Germany)
Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Head of Department of Architecture / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)
Brian Cody, Engineer, Chair of the Institute for Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Colin Fournier, Architect / University College London (UK)
Andreas Ludwig, CEO Zumtobel Group, Dornbirn (Austria)
Enrique Norten, Architect / TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York (Mexico, USA)
Anna Tibaijuka, General and Executive Director / UN Habitat, Nairobi (Kenya)
“I am delighted that, in their selection this year, the jury have sent out a clear signal that smaller projects which adopt innovative approaches can also prove an important source of inspiration. We need to look beyond our current needs and see the challenges of the future in their full context, as is reflected in the winning project in the "Research & Innovation" category," explained Zumtobel Group CEO and jury member Andreas Ludwig.
The winner in the category “Built Environment” was HARMONIA 57 by Triptyque. In the category "Research & Initiative", honorable mentions went to a rural student project at the University of Talca in Chile; a cross-border exchange programme and symposium "Political Equator II" (Estudio Teddy Cruz) involving the USA and Mexico; a highly poetical idea for an office and studio building in Columbia (Husos Architects); and a master plan for a wind park in the North Sea (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) that aims to meet the entire electricity needs of the Netherlands.
http://www.zumtobel-group-award.com/com/en/5388.htm
3.04.2010
Terreform ONE wins the Zumtobel Group Award
Co-Founders Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova awarded EUR 60,000
At a meeting at Roden Crater, Arizona (USA) in February, an international jury selected this year's winners of the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. The award in the "Research & Initiative" category went to the non-profit design group Terreform ONE, jointly founded by Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, for the project "New York City Resource & Mobility", a visionary plan for New York City that converts waste to buildings and reinvents the city transit system. The work for this on-going urban project is fundamentally based on the activist notions of self-reliance in the profound writings of Henry David Thoreau, Bill Mollison, Buckminster Fuller, and William Mcdonough.
"This project is a rich source of interesting ideas of real substance. The research team is not afraid to think in whole new directions and presents a range of visionary potential approaches that are already acting as catalysts in the urban development debate." - jury
The winners were selected by interdisciplinary and international jury of leading architects from different parts of the world, an engineer, a representative of the UN, and the CEO of the Zumtobel Group, including:
Stefan Behnisch, (Chairman) Architect / Behnisch Architects, Stuttgart (Germany)
Yung Ho Chang, Architect, Head of Department of Architecture / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (USA)
Brian Cody, Engineer, Chair of the Institute for Buildings and Energy, Graz University of Technology (Austria)
Colin Fournier, Architect / University College London (UK)
Andreas Ludwig, CEO Zumtobel Group, Dornbirn (Austria)
Enrique Norten, Architect / TEN Arquitectos, Mexico City and New York (Mexico, USA)
Anna Tibaijuka, General and Executive Director / UN Habitat, Nairobi (Kenya)
“I am delighted that, in their selection this year, the jury have sent out a clear signal that smaller projects which adopt innovative approaches can also prove an important source of inspiration. We need to look beyond our current needs and see the challenges of the future in their full context, as is reflected in the winning project in the "Research & Innovation" category," explained Zumtobel Group CEO and jury member Andreas Ludwig.
The winner in the category “Built Environment” was HARMONIA 57 by Triptyque. In the category "Research & Initiative", honorable mentions went to a rural student project at the University of Talca in Chile; a cross-border exchange programme and symposium "Political Equator II" (Estudio Teddy Cruz) involving the USA and Mexico; a highly poetical idea for an office and studio building in Columbia (Husos Architects); and a master plan for a wind park in the North Sea (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) that aims to meet the entire electricity needs of the Netherlands.
http://www.zumtobel-group-award.com/com/en/5388.htm
3.03.2010
Discovery Channel's Daily Planet
An interview with U of T Gehry Chair Mitchell Joachim aired on the March 1, 2010 episode of the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet program.
The fabulous Ziya Tong talks to the one man Rolling stone listed as one of the 100 people changing America; View the clip: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/daily-planet/#clip271271
Art in America review
29 CHAINS TO THE MOON, By Melissa Kuntz, Art in America, Feb. 2010.
"The show presented three projects by artists developing 21st-century ideas (some actually in the testing stage) to tackle big problems. It might be futile to exhibit world-saving proposals in a traditional art space, where they could seem to be nothing more than conceptual exercises, but the mix of novel ideas in this show suggested that people working in diverse disciplines might collectively yield solutions to some looming predicaments."
"Architect Mitchell Joachim, working with the design collaborative Terreform ONE, of which he is a co-founder, showed panels of digital prints with the schematics for Peristaltic City, a tall building made of a cluster of transportable pods; Stackable Cars, a storage and charging system for electric urban vehicles; and Homeway: The Great Suburban Exodus, which proposes retrofitting American dwellings with wheels in order to maintain the continuity of home in changing locations. Also on view was a digital schematic of the team’s Fab Tree Hab, a proposal to “grow” homes by training trees into habitable shapes using scaffolds."
Special Thanks: Astria Suparak
Meatpaper and Architecture from Meat
"Why No One Wants to Eat the Meat House:
The complicated world of meatchitecture" Interview by Heather Smith Meatpaper, issue 10, pp. 31-33.
School of Visual Arts Presents Between Paradigms: Invention, Interface and Intuition
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents Between Paradigms, a panel discussion exploring experimental systems and their application in art and design. Moderated by artist and BFA Fine Arts Department Chair Suzanne Anker, the panel includes: artists Frank Gillette and Michael Joaquin Grey; architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim, PhD; and artist and interspecies communication researcher Aimee Morgana. The event is presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department at SVA.
2.17.2010
2.15.2010
TED Talk: Why Grow Homes? Meat and Tree Houses from Brooklyn
Mitchell Joachim presented two talks at TED2010.
TED main stage; Why Grow Homes? see the In Vitro Meat House and Fab Tree Hab.
and TED Fellows talk at TED U on Soft Mobility and Homeway.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mitchell_joachim_don_t_build_your_home_grow_it.html
BusinessWeek Interview: Mitchell Joachim
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2010/02/introducing_ted_21.html
1.27.2010
Toronto Star reviews our exhibition
A meat home on the renewable range
by Christopher Hume
Sat. Jan. 23, 2010, Toronto Star
"2009-10 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design
Dr. Joachim is the Visiting Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. Named in honour of Frank O. Gehry, this endowed chair brings a highly recognized international architect to teach a graduate studio and deliver a public lecture at Daniels each year.
http://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/gehry_chair/1310
Lecture at Waterloo
University of Waterloo
School of Architecture
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario
http://www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca/news+events/lectures/lectures.html
New legal counsel for Terreform ONE
Christopher J. Glancy
Partner
White & Case, LLP
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
http://www.whitecase.com/cglancy/
1.10.2010
One Day Tower - 24 Hours of NYC Refuse
credits: Mitchell Joachim, Ian Slover, Philip Weller, Andrea Michalski, Alan Paukman.
12.14.2009
TED Fellowship 2010
Organizers of the TED Conference announced today the 25 TED Fellows who will participate in TED2010, the annual conference in Long Beach, CA.
The TED2010 Fellows reflect both geographic and discipline diversity. From Israel to Brazil to Malaysia, these innovators excel in the technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and nonprofit worlds. The group also includes filmmakers, engineers, artists, scientists and musicians.
TED Fellow: Mitchell Joachim, Architect and co-founder of Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, non-profit design groups that promote ecological design in cities.
see here
12.10.2009
MICA Lecture
Nationally-Known Artists and Historians at MICA:
MITCHELL JOACHIM, FUTURE CITIES BY MASSIVE DESIGN
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
Dec. 9, Brown Center, Baltimore, MD.
12.05.2009
Global Warning: Artists on Climate Change at BAM
Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival
Sat, Dec 5 at 5pm at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
In conjunction with Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, composer/writer DJ Spooky’s sound and visual exploration of the Antarctic, Global Warning: Artists on Climate Change brings together three artists for a conversation about the climate crisis and its emergence as a theme in the arts. DJ Spooky joins ecological designer/architect Mitchell Joachim, selected by Rolling Stone as one of "The 100 People Who Are Changing America;" and MacArthur Award recipient Julie Mehretu, known for her “singular and poetic” (The New York Times) map-like paintings that challenge traditional notions of geography and space, for an engaging discussion moderated by NPR and BBC contributor Tania Ketenjian.
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1275
11.23.2009
Heeb Magazine, Grave New World: Mitchell Joachim
Heeb Issue #22 : Feature Interview by Mary Block, special thanks to Oliver Noble.
We recently sat down with four modern-day prophets—specializing in everything from the World Wide Web to the fearsome Mayan Gods — hoping that their outlook on the future would be different from that of there predecessors;
http://www.heebmagazine.com/
Daniel Pinchbeck
Howard Bloom
Mitchell Joachim – "Do you know what one million more trees will do to carbon loading in the atmosphere? Nothing."
Douglas Rushkoff
11.20.2009
One Prize Design Competition
Introducing the One Prize: Award $10,000
CALLING ALL FUTURE-FORWARD ARCHITECTS, URBAN DESIGNERS, PLANNERS, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, STUDENTS AND INDIVIDUALS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS: How would you reinvent the American garden?
Select Jury:
Margaret Crawford, Dickson Despommier, Margie Ruddick, Cameron Sinclair, Kate Stohr, Bruce Lindsey, and more TBA.
Please see updates and further information at www.oneprize.org
Architecture of Change 2
Architecture of Change 2: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment, Editors: K. Feireiss, L. Feireiss, Terrefuge, pp. 220-225, Gestalten, Berlin 2009
11.11.2009
The Future City Beautiful - Expo 2009
Success!
Keynote Lecture: Mitchell Joachim
Rocky Mountain Commercial Real Estate Expo, Nov. 10, 2009.
Denver, Colorado
http://www.rmexpoforecast.com/speakers/joachim.html
10.18.2009
Ecology Design NOW at Center for Architecture
Class: Ecology Design Now w/ Terreform ONE
The Public School, Telic Arts Exchange
at Center for Architecture A.I.A. NY
http://nyc.thepublicschool.org/class/1420
Special Thanks: Todd Rouhe, Maria Ibañez de Sendadiano, IdS/R architecture
10.09.2009
Ecogram II at GSAPP Columbia University
please see www.ecogram.org
Special Thanks to Mark Wigley and Benjamin Prosky
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Invisible Cities. Innovation and Complexity in Informal Settlements Roundtable hosted by Ioanna Theocharopoulou + Mitchell Joachim, (GSAPP and Parsons the New School for Design)
Urban Think Tank, Alfredo Brillembourg + Hubert Klumpner / GSAPP Margaret Crawford, Professor of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Teddy Cruz, Professor in Public Culture, Visual Arts Department, UC San DiegoChristian Werthmann, Associate Professor, Program Director in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Informal Urban Economics in the Global South
Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Wednesday October 14, 2009 at 6:30 pm Climate Change and Human Rights
Bianca Jagger, Human Rights advocate, Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Chair of the World Future Council. Followed by exhibit opening: ECO-REDUX at 8:30 pmCurated by Lydia Kalipoliti, Avery Hall, 2nd Floor
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 7-9 pmSafari 7 Reading Room, Exhibition opening, Co-curated by Glen Cummings, Janette Kim, and Kate Orff. at Studio-X, 180 Varick Street , Ste. 1610
Friday, 10/16 from 1-3 PM Avery Hall, Room 114,
Columbia University Roundtable Discussion & Debate: ECOGRAM II: What is Green Learning at GSAPP? With Glen Cummings, Janette Kim, Kate Orff, Mitchell Joachim and Ioanna Theorcharopoulou and others Hosted and Organized by GREEN BUILDERS @ Columbia
TBA
Greening the City of Chicago Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago Hosted by Dean Mark Wigley
10.06.2009
Reshaping Cities on CNBC
The Business of Innovation hosted by Maria Bartiromo
RESHAPING CITIES - Premiered Monday, October 5th
Each year, we add the equivalent of seven New Yorks to the planet, creating strains our ageing cities are struggling to handle. The intelligent city won't just survive under this strain - it will flourish. Touching upon public safety, traffic, “self-aware” buildings, and smart grids, this show introduces the systems that will make the cities of the future both successful and sustainable.
Thought Leaders:
Mitchell Joachim, PhD, Urban Designer and Architect
Paul Romer, PhD, Senior Fellow at Stanford University.
Michael Chernoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security.
Special Thanks: Terry Murphy, Jessica Gerstle, Sarah Orenstein.
see video: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1285639918&play=1#
9.19.2009
Fab Tree Hab: Garten + Landschaft cover
9.15.2009
TerreFarm Video
New Video at Babelgum
Directed by Kelly Loudenberg
Camera: Brandon Jourdan
See our Brooklyn roof top farm video here:
http://www.babelgum.com/browser.php#play/SEARCH_SIMILAR,clipID:4002577,includeClip:true,order:MOST_RELEVANT/0,4002577
9.13.2009
Sustainable cities are the solution
Guardian UK, Sunday 13 September
by David Lepeska
...a constellation of designers, architects and academics gathered at a conference on "ecological urbanism" at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design earlier this year.
Mitchell Joachim, who teaches architecture and design at Columbia University and was selected by Wired magazine as one of 15 people Obama should listen to, presented his vision for a collapsible and stackable electric city car, which would hang at public recharging stations, available for shared use.
He also explained "meat tectonics". Aiming to use meat proteins developed in a lab as building material, Joachim presented a digital rendering of an armadillo-shaped, kidney-coloured home. "It's very ugly, we know that," he said. "We're not sure what a meat house is supposed to look like."
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/13/cities-carbon-emissions-environment-urban-planning
9.09.2009
IMC Panel: Responsive City
IMC (Interactive Multimedia Culture) Exposition
Responsive City: New media in urban planning and architecture
Paul Elston, Pres., Riverside South Planning Corp., Prof. Hunter
Ken Farmer, Project for Public Spaces
Mitchell Joachim, Founder, Terreform ONE, Prof., Columbia University
at The StudioIMC Lab & Gallery95 Morton St 7th Floor, New York City
http://www.imcexpo.net/
9.05.2009
Popular Mechanics: How to Fix Commuter Traffic
12 Current and Future Fixes for Transportation Woes
by Lisa Merolla, Popular Mechanics
Idea for the Future: Mitchell Joachim, an urban designer known for his innovative ideas, has dreamed up a street concept that could direct cars away from walkers. He proposes using radio-frequency identification (FRID) and light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technologies to sense pedestrians. For example, he says, "If a little girl drops a ball that rolls into the street, the pixel based sensors will reconfigure traffic flow and create a safety zone around the girl and ball path."
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4327634.html?page=2
Talk with David Byrne on "Bicycle Diaries"
The immensely prolific David Byrne speaks with guests on Cities, Bicycles and the Future of Getting Around;
1. Civic Leader: Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation.
2. Urban Theorist: Mitchell Joachim, Co-Founder of Terrefuge & Terreform ONE; on faculty at Columbia University and Parsons.
3. Bicycle Advocate: Paul Steely White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives.
New York, NY: 22 September 2009 @7pm, Barnes & Noble Union Square
http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/books/bicycle_diaries/index.php
8.21.2009
Pratt Manhattan Gallery: Design and Sustainability
Design Jazz: Improvisations on the Urban Street
September 25 - November 7, 2009
Public reception and “Pratt Falls” performances, Friday, October 9, 6–8 p.m.
144 West 14th Street, 2nd floor New York, NY 10011
Inspired by the newly created department of Academic Sustainability at Pratt Institute, this exhibition in two parts will document both theoretical and creative approaches to the design of urban streets by invited guests Amy Guggenheim, artist, writer and professor, Pratt Institute; Mitchell Joachim, architect, designer and co-founder Terreform One; and Leon Reid IV, street artist, teacher, and Pratt alumnus, as well as document the process of a local realized project.
http://www.pratt.edu/about_pratt/visiting_pratt/exhibitions/pratt_manhattan_gallery/
Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery: Terreform 1
Artists' Schemes for a Fantastic Future
Guest curated by Andrea Grover
Aug. 28 - Dec. 6, 2009
Artists: Open_Sailing, Stephanie Smith, Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform ONE
TerreFarm: Workshop Update
Maria Aiolova,
Vito Acconnci,
Mitchell Joachim,
Christian Hubert
TerreFarm see more here http://terrefarm.blogspot.com/
8.20.2009
Avant-Garde Agriculture, Architecture Meet in B’klyn
Futurists’ Workshop Attracts Students From All Over World
By Stephen Rex Brown
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — When Dr. Mitchell Joachim appeared on the Colbert Report he was only a short subway ride from his laboratory, where he and a group of fellow futurists envision a world where New Yorkers travel by jet pack, live in tree houses, and wear wristwatches made of in-vitro pig meat.
Despite the short trip, Joachim’s moment in the spotlight was a world apart from the Metropolitan Exchange Building on Flatbush Avenue, where he hatches the provocative ideas that earned him a spot on the 2008 “Smart List” in Wired magazine.
Now, Joachim’s non-profit group, Terreform One, is allowing a group of 40 students from all over the globe to revel in their world of apparently limitless possibilities, where ideas for urban agriculture seem out of a science fiction novel.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=30264
see more at TerreFarm:
http://terrefarm.blogspot.com/
7.17.2009
Tree Museum Opens in Bronx
100 trees give voice to 100 perspectives featured in the Grand Concourse's TREE MUSEUM. Irish artist Katie Holten created this public art project to celebrate the communities and ecosystems along this 100 year-old boulevard. Visitors can listen in on local stories and the intimate lives of trees offered by current and former residents: from beekeepers to rappers, historians to gardeners, school kids to scientists.
Tree No. 92 - Mitchell Joachim discusses growing homes from trees. Other speakers include; Daniel Libeskind, Toshiko Mori, and Majora Carter.
7.10.2009
6.28.2009
Green School Alliance: National Student Climate & Conservation Congress
2009 Speakers
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Douglas Brinkley
Dan Ashe
Virginia Burkett
Kevin Doyle
Mitchell Joachim
Jena Meredith
Shepherd Ogden
David Orr
Rob Watson
Andrew Revkin
Norman Christopher
and more...
Special Thanks: Mark Madison, National Conservation Training Center.
6.26.2009
French American Conference of Entrepreneurs: Clean Tech
Conference Presentations:
Clean Tech Entrepreneurs; Building Resiliency from the Grass
Roots Up
No one is in a better position to gauge the implementation of clean
tech, renewable energy, and energy efficiency programs than the
entrepreneurs who work diligently to build their organization,
acquire critical financial and human capital, refine their technology
capabilities, market those capabilities and develop business.
• Mike Beck, MJ BECK Consulting
• Howard Berke, Executive Chairman and co-Founder, Konarka
• Mitchell Joachim, PhD Co-Founder, Terreform 1
• Trey Taylor, President and Head of Market Development, Verdant Power
Moderated by Mary Howard, Principal, Design Technologies, LLC
6.17.2009
DISCOVER covers the World Science Festival
World Science Festival: The Science of Eliminating Gridlock
Robert Krulwich, Iain Couzin, Anna Nagurney, Mitchell Joachim
Special Thanks: Susan Ades Stone
World Science Festival: Creating Wall-E’s World, Minus the Endless Waste
Carl Zimmer, Christopher McKay, Ben Schwegler, Mitchell Joachim
Special Thanks: Anna Hall
6.16.2009
Mitchell Joachim in The WIP List
Mitchell ranked:
Top 25 architects worldwide
Top 5 architects in America
Top 100 artists in America
The WIPlist measures the presence of the most referenced people on the web:
Esperando Contenido Widget ...
6.09.2009
Jet Pack Packing: Soft Mobility in the Sky
World Science Festival -Signature Events
Traffic: From Insects to Interstates
Kimmel Center, NYU
Can marching ants, schooling fish, and herding wildebeests teach us something about the morning commute? Robert Krulwich, Mitchell Joachim, Anna Nagurney and Iain Couzin examine the creative and guides this unique melding of mathematics, physics, and behavioral science as sometimes counterintuitive solutions to one of the modern world's most annoying problems.
Beneath WALL-E’s whimsical surface lies a grown up, cautionary tale about humanity’s relationship with the environment. Carl Zimmer hosts leading scientists Mitchell Joachim, Christopher McKay and Ben Schwegler as they explore ingenious strategies for creating a sustainable future — from 'carborexic' cities made entirely from recycled trash to how the pursuit of "green" space exploration may one day help to revolutionize waste management here on Earth.
6.03.2009
Future North screens at BEYOND MEDIA
Our video titled "Future North - Ecotariums in the North Pole", will be part of the international selection of architecture videos that will be presented to the public during VISIONS, ninth international festival for architecture and media at BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it. The event will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009. Our work has been selected among the over 600 submissions received from 35 countries. Future North will be featured in the event's official catalogue.
Project Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Jane Marsching, Makoto Okazaki, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Dan O'Connor.
Special Thank You: Paola Ricco
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