9.12.2010
American Society of Landscape Architects 2010 Expo in DC
9.02.2010
Science is Culture
Seed Media Group has announced that the Seed Salon with Thomas E. Lovejoy and Mitchell Joachim has just been printed as part of Science is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Culture. Harper Perennial, 2010.
I'm very glad to be a part of this important book, and extend my warmest regards to Adam Bly and Seed.
The Prague Post: Viewing the present through the future
Prague Post, by Caroline Korsawe
"Joachim embraces the future by specializing in dreaming up environmentally sustainable cities. He is part of Terreform
With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, Joachim believes it is important to understand the consequences human civilization has on the world's ecosystems. He designed a future model of
http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/5484-viewing-the-present-through-the-future.html
Imaginarium exhibition in Berlin w/ Terreform 1
Studio Lukas Feireiss and Tomorrow's Thoughts Today with Luis Berríos-Negrón
cordially invite you to the Imaginarium
– Thursday, 02. September 2010, 19:00 –
2 A+P/A, AMID (Cero9), Rachel Armstrong, Tuur van Balen, Christoph DM Barlieb, Philip Beesley, Friedrich von Borries, Vincent Callebaut, Revital Cohen Oliver Croy and Oliver Elser, Justine Cooper, Ecosistema urbano, Eric Ellingsen, Love Enqvist, finsterwalderarchitekten, Vincent Fournier, Lynn Fox, Terunobu Fujimori, Thomas Grünfeld, Ilkka Halso, Husos with Francisco Amaro, Theo Jansen, Christian Kerrigan, Greg Lynn, Ton Matton, Jürgen Mayer H., Lucy McRae, Achim Menges, Nomadisch Grün, Anton Markus Pasing, Phillipe Rahm, Francois Roche, Christiane Sauer, Terreform 1, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, The Why Factory, Triptyque, Mas Yendo, Liam Young.
The Imaginarium is part of the exhibition 'Examples to Follow! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability' curated by Adrienne Goehler.
September 3 - October 10, 2010; Tue - Sun 12 -8 pm, Thu 12 -10 pm, closed on Mondays
Uferhallen, Uferstrasse 8-11, 13357 Berlin-Wedding, www.z-n-e.info
8.21.2010
Digital Art opening at Google Inc. Mitchell Joachim
Exhibit: Digital Art @ Google: We Write This To You From The Distant Future
Google and The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM) in New York launched an exhibition program, Digital Art @Google NYC to engage Googlers with the art world and promote creativity with digital technology.
This is a multi-media exhibition of work by visionary creators in the arts and sciences that focuses on a future world imagined and possible to build. Included in the exhibition are Mark Amerika, Rachel Armstrong, Marc Barasch, Ed Bilous, etoy, Mitchell Joachim, Eduardo Kac, StudioIMC-Tunick/Elston/Schiller, Jack Toolin/C5, Marina Zurkow, Google UK, Clean Energy 2030, Andrew Senior, Cordero/Senior/Weston.
Thank You: Nina Colosi
Opening: August 20, 6 – 8pm RSVP required
Location:Google, Inc. 75 Ninth Avenue, NYC
http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/digitalartatgoogle/
8.16.2010
Dr. Joachim on Greener Living wtih Dr. G.
8.13.2010
Mitchell Joachim in book on biological innovation
How to Catch a Robot Rat: When Biology Inspires Innovation by Agnès Guillo, 7.26.2010
Aspen Environment Forum; Mitchell Joachim
7.18.2010
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE
Terreform ONE, Mitchell Joachim: The future is not what it used to be. While this saying has already entered popular culture, its implications began to dawn on us only recently. The notion of "future" was central to Modernism, but in the late 20th century it ceased to be the driver of the Western world. In recent decades, questions of the past, of memory and identity, instead emerged as dominant in our society.
http://www.doxprague.org/en/exhibition?38/about
7.02.2010
6.27.2010
Surface Magazine: Transport Issue
"Road Map To Tomorrow," cover story with Yves Behar - fuseproject, Mike Simonian - Mike & Maaike, and Mitchell Joachim - Terreform ONE, interview by Tim McKeough, Surface Magazine, #83, July/Aug. 2010, pp. 40-45. Special Thank You: Dan Rubinstein.
6.13.2010
Popular Science: Mitchell Joachim
Popular Science magazine cover story: Future of The Environment, Mitchell Joachim, The Urban Remodeler, by John Bradley, pp. cover, 7, 46-47, July 2010.
5.27.2010
The European Graduate School: Mitchell Joachim
Dr. Joachim will be teaching a class with Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid at the EGS in Switzerland.
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/mitchell-joachim/biography/
5.23.2010
5.18.2010
MIT Car at Cooper-Hewitt
5.15.2010
Next City Symposium
5.13.2010
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.
5.07.2010
Harper's Meat House
5.04.2010
TU Vienna lecture: Carborexic Cities
4.30.2010
Plain Green Conference: Keynote Mitchell Joachim
4.05.2010
Savannah College of Art and Design lecture
3.30.2010
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.
3.22.2010
Tulane School of Architecture lecture
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
New legal counsel for Terreform ONE
1.10.2010
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
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
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






