MIT Car at Cooper-Hewitt

National Design Triennial at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, MIT City Car MIT CityCar, prototype. William J. Mitchell, Ryan Chin, William Lark Jr., Raul-David Poblano, Peter Schmitt and Philip Angus Liang, Smart Cities, MIT Media Laboratory, with Mitchell Joachim and Franco Vairani, MIT Department of Architecture, and Andres Sevtsuk, MIT Planning.

Next City Symposium

NEXT CITY: The LMN Symposium on Design and Urbanization, "Speculative Urbanism: Research and Visualization". Keynote – Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, Friday, May 14, 20106:30 p.m., Kane Hall 120, UW Seattle Panel Presentations and Discussion: Nancy Levinson (Editor, Places), Richard M. Sommer (University of Toronto), Adam Yarinsky, FAIA (Architecture Research Office), and moderator Ken Tadashi Oshima (University of Washington). Special Thank You: Dean Daniel S. Friedman

Ecological Urbanism book published

"Envisioning Ecological Cities," Mitchell Joachim, Ecological Urbanism, Edited by Mohsen Mostafavi, with Gareth Doherty, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Lars Müller Publishers, 2010.

Harper's Meat House

Harper's Magazine; Squeal Estate by Heather Smith Interview with Mitchell Joachim and Oliver Medvedik on the In Vitro Meat House.

pp. front cover & 21-23, May 2010. http://harpers.org/subjects/HeatherSmith

TU Vienna lecture: Carborexic Cities

Mitchell Joachim lectured at TU Wien, May 4, 2010 w/ Jens Dangschat. Thank You; Eva Germann DEPARTMENT OF SPATIAL AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Technische Universität Wien

Plain Green Conference: Keynote Mitchell Joachim

The Plain Green Conference and Marketplace is two days of advancing sustainability on the Northern Plains. Connect, learn and take action with hundreds of other attendees and star-power keynotes like Cameron Sinclair and Mitchell Joachim, plus green exhibitors and two days of workshops and breakouts. The region’s premiere event on green design, business and ideas was held at the historic Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science in Downtown Sioux Falls.

http://plaingreen.org/

Savannah College of Art and Design lecture

Mitchell Joachim lectured at SCAD 3/31/10 Special thanks: Andrew Payne, Andrew M. Emmet, Brent D. White, Casey Glasse, and AIAS.

Greening urban architecture on MPR

Interview with Mitchell Joachim by Marianne Combs on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) A radical architect has ideas on promoting environmentalism in cities with stackable cars and homes built into trees. He also says "sustainable" is not a good enough word to describe his goals for buildings.

Thank You: Susan Leem, Nancy Lebens.

Tulane School of Architecture lecture

This weekend we had a wonderful presentation and panel discussion at; "New Ecological Strategies" Graduate Colloquium at the Tulane School of Architecture. panelists included: Kirsten Murray AIA, Principal, Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects Tim Duggan, ASLA, Make it Right Foundation Jerome C. Ringo, The Apollo Alliance Ryan Duke, Project H, San Francisco Mitchell Joachim, PhD, Terreform ONE + Terrefuge Doug Harmon, Moderator Special Thanks: Kenneth Schwartz, FAIA and Matthew Hostetler

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

Rethinking the architect

The Varsity Magazine: The Profile Issue, by Sarah Rafson, Photo: David Pike, March 2, 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

Special Thanks: Jeffrey Berman, CTV

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.

NYU News: Terreform ONE

Start-up aims to construct with waste by Jasmine Mickens Washington Square News, Feb 8, 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

Toronto Star reviews our exhibition

A meat home on the renewable range by Christopher Hume Sat. Jan. 23, 2010, Toronto Star "To save the world, we must first reinvent it. So says Brooklyn-based architect and visionary Mitchell Joachim. And he's not talking about tinkering here or tweaking there, but a total remake, top to bottom. His proposals range from impact-absorbing "soft cars" and towers clad in compacted trash to movable dwellings and "meat houses". If that strikes you as scary, relax. This is one revolution we're going to enjoy." http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/754129--hume-a-meat-home-on-the-renewable-range

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 University of Toronto

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/

One Day Tower - 24 Hours of NYC Refuse

credits: Mitchell Joachim, Ian Slover, Philip Weller, Andrea Michalski, Alan Paukman.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homeway: The Future Street at Pratt Gallery NY

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#

Fab Tree Hab: Garten + Landschaft cover

Review of Harvard GSD Ecological Urbanism conference:

"Landschaftsarchitektur als Marke"

by Jan Bunge

 pp. 10-13, Sept. 2009.

Special thanks; Jürgen Weidinger, Gesa Loschwitz, Peter Zöch, Redaktion Garten + Landschaft

http://www.garten-landschaft.de/Blaettern-Ausgabe-900.html

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

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

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/

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

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

29 Chains to the Moon

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

http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/

TerreFarm: Workshop Update

Maria Aiolova, Vito Acconnci, Mitchell Joachim, Christian Hubert

TerreFarm see more here http://terrefarm.blogspot.com/

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/