Collapse: Climate, Cities and Culture an Exhibition with Global Design New York University

Global Design NYU Exhibit: June 12th-29th! Opening Party June 13th, The Gallatin Galleries, New York University at 1 Washington Place, 6:30 PM - 8 PM


Participating Architects/ Artists:
AGENCY, Alejandro Zaera Alexander Felson, Anna Dyson, Archi-Tectonics, Axel Kilian, Carl Skelton, DESIGN EARTH, Experimental Architecture Group, Fernanda Canales, Forrest Meggers, Ghiora Aharoni Design St Harrison Atelier, Jenny Sabin Studio, Julia Watson Studio REDE, Louise Harpman__PROJECTS, Ma Llaguno-Munitxa, Mark Foster Gage Architects, Mark Shepard and Moritz Stefaner, MASS Design Group, Mathur/Da Cunha, Mitch McEwen, Mitchell Joachim, NADAAA, nea Studio, Nurhan Goktu Patrick Nash, Peder Anker, pneumastudio/Cathryn Dwyre + Chris Perry, Rhett Russo, SITE @ Prin University, SO-IL, Terreform ONE, WXY, Young & Ayata.

https://www.instagram.com/nyu__collapse/

https://gallatin.nyu.edu/utilities/events/2018/06/CollapseClimateCitiesandCulture.html

IPK, Climate Infrastructures, w/ Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), Climate Infrastructures Conference, Panel, NYU, NY.

IIDA with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

International Interior Design Association, Leadership Talk, Houston, TX
https://www.iida.org/content.cfm/houston-2018

Transforming the DNA of the Built Environment w/ Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE

Transforming the DNA of the Built Environment is a two-part meeting held in the Spring and Fall of 2018 to kick off a collaboration between The Center for Ecosystems in Architecture at Yale (CEA) and New Lab. In Spring 2018, we will meet to discuss new strategies for linking systems for energy, water, air, food, and material life cycles through the mission of emergency housing, which will be the subject of a 36-month research, development, and demonstration project. In Fall 2018, we will meet to tackle the innovative ways in which new DNA for materials, devices, and integrated systems could lead to fundamentally different infrastructural models for distributing resources at the urban and district scales.

David Belt, New Lab CEO
Cas Holloway, Bloomberg LP Global Head of Technical Operations

Moderator:
Daniel Gross, Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Speakers:
Chris Sharples, Founding Principal at SHoP Architects — HeliOptix
Jason Vollen, VP, High Performance Buildings Leader, AECOM
Forrest Meggers, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Enviroment, Princeton University
Berardo Matalucci, Co-Founder of MIMiC Systems

Moderator:
Doris Sung, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, DOSU Studio Architecture
Speakers:
Kipp Bradford, Research Scientist at CEA, Yale
Demetrios Comodromos, Founding Principal of METHOD Design
Aletheia Ida, Chair MS Arch EBT at University of Arizona

Moderator:
Susan Szenasy, Founding Editor of Metropolis Magazine
Speakers:
Jefferson Ellinger, Associate Professor of UNC Charlotte, Ellinger DLR
Matt Gindlesparger, Visiting Professor at Philadelphia University
Ranjit Arpels-Josiah, Principal of Entertaining Health
Andrew Rosner, Managing Principal of Entertaining Health

Moderator:
Demetrios Comodromos, Owner and Partner of METHOD Design
Speakers:
Alan Organschi, Principal of Gray Organschi Architecture
Rebecca Lorenz, Senior Designer at SHoP Architects
Francis Bitonti, Founder of Studio Bitonti
Mae-Ling Lokko, CEO of Willow Technologies

Moderator:
Edward Roussel, Chief Innovation Officer at Dow Jones
Speakers:
Anna Dyson, Founding Director of Yale CEA and Hines Professor at Yale
Naomi Keena, Postdoc Associate at Yale CEA
Simone Rothman, CEO of Future Air
Alexandros Tsiamis, Acting Director at the Center for Architecture Science & Ecology at RPI

Moderator:
Rosalie Genevro, Executive Director of the Architectural League
Speakers:
Chris Sharples, Principal at SHoP Architects
Alan Organschi, Principal at Gray Organschi Architecture
Phil Bernstein, Associate Dean of the Yale School of Architecture
Anna Dyson, Founding Director of Yale CEA and Hines Professor at Yale
Leila Kamal, VP of Design and Expertise at EYP Architects
Mitchell Joachim, Co-President at Terreform ONE

Closing Remarks:
Kenneth A. Lewis, Partner at SOM
Deborah Berke, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture

https://www.architecture.yale.edu/calendar/154-transforming-the-dna-of-the-built-environment

Fast Company, Airports That Architects Want To Redesign, Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE.

Fast Company, "Airports That Architects Want To Redesign The Most", w/ Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE.
If you could change any airport in the U.S., which would you choose? Co.Design posed the question to architects. By Jesus Diaz.
https://www.fastcodesign.com/90171121/the-airports-that-architects-want-to-redesign-the-most

Collapse: Climate, Cities, & Culture Exhibit at NYU

New NYU Exhibit on "Collapse: Climate, Cities, & Culture" at The Gallatin Galleries for Global Design NYU on June 12th-29th with: AGENCY, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Anya Bokov, Anuradha Mathur/ Da Cunha, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Laura Kurgan, Fernanda Canales, Forrest Meggers, FUTURE GREEN, Ghiora Aharoni, Harrison Atelier, Ariane Lourie Harrison, Jenny Sabin, Julia Nicole Watson, REDE, Kaja Kühl, Karen Holmberg, KieranTimberlake, Louise Harpman PROJECTS, Mark Shepard, MASS Design Group, Mitch Mcewen, Mitchell Joachim, n_Architects, Nader Tehrani, NEA Studio, Nina Edwards Anker, Peder Anker, Pneumastudio, Chris Perry, Cathryn Dwyre, Rachel Armstrong, Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy, DESIGN EARTH, Rhett Russo, SCAPE, Snarkitecture, Snohetta, SO-IL, Terreform ONE, Timur Dogan, Winka Dubbeldam, WXY. NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Urban Democracy Lab.

AERIAL FUTURES hosted by Terreform ONE at New Lab

AERIAL FUTURES: Urban Constellations explores airport-city interfaces as infrastructure, operating at a metropolitan scale. This think tank uses New York City as a case study to trigger responses across disciplines. Selected participants will reimagine airport constellations as a choreographed urban ecosystem that relies as much on architecture as it does on technology and data-driven design. Form follows information. New technologies – such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, real-time digital experiences, robotics, and autonomous vehicles – will transform the way aerial infrastructures look and feel in the future. This AERIAL FUTURES think tank will challenge our expectations about time in transit, wayfinding, security, and commerce; and exploring how technology will redefine disconnected landscapes into continuous, integrated urban airport systems.

NYU Faculty Urban Research Day Conference

We are pleased to share that several funders who are interested in NYU's urban research will be in attendance. In addition, Stephanie Miner, former mayor of Syracuse, and Polly Trottenberg, Commissioner of the NYC DOT, will be participating as keynote speaker and panelist, respectively.

https://www.nyu.edu/academics/scholarly-strengths/urban-initiative.html

Urban Digital Humanities: Design and Sustainability

The quest to design digital and real solutions to environmental problems will be the theme of three interdisciplinary presentations crossing the boundaries of the humanities, architecture, and engineering.

Micro dwellings: where the Quantified Self meets the Quantified Home
Louise Harpman
Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU

Architecture for Crickets and Butterflies
Mitchell Joachim
Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU

Digital Pedagogy: School of the Earth, and more
Peder Anker
Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU

Moderated by Marion Thain, Director of Digital Humanities, NYU

Event Location: NYU Center for the Humanities, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003.
http://nyuhumanities.org/events/event-registration/?ee=140

Productive Green Model Blocks in the Resilient Circular Economy, Terreform ONE

View down SW Broadway as it cuts through the heart of downtown Portland OR, 1960. The parking lot just left of center will become Pioneer Courthouse Square a quarter-century later. Very few blocks have escaped change in the last 50 years.

Forbes Magazine Interview with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

Alex Knapp interview with Mitchell Joachim, "Farming The Next Big Food Source: Crickets" Forbes, JAN. 30, 2018 @ 01:04 PM.

Terreform, a non-profit urban architecture and design group, has been working on a project to update a centuries-old technology: the emergency shelter. The organization's design goes beyond merely providing shelter from the elements. It's also a modular habitat for a food source that people can harvest: crickets.  "We didn't think you just needed a shelter," Terreform's Mitchell Joachim said. "You actually needed some level of food, sustenance farming, so that you can help get your family protein, especially after a big calamity."

LINK:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2018/01/30/farming-the-next-big-food-source-crickets/#7e5a38e51168

Vouge UK Art Basel Miami with Terreform ONE

Julia Hobbs, "10 Things We Learned About Art Basel Miami", Vouge, UK, Sat. 9th Dec. 2107.  The Faena hotel on South Beach has a cricket farm for when the world runs out of protein, Terreform ONE.

http://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/art-basel-miami

Tech Fancy - Unnatural Selection Terreform ONE

Tech Fancy - Unnatural Selection, No.3 12, 2017.
Brave New Bio: A New Breed of Tech Company Returns to Nature

Photography by Rich Gilligan / Reporting by New Lab

Anyone passing the Brooklyn Navy Yard docks in the last year is likely to have glimpsed a white, spiked structure that could be mistaken for a punk-rock igloo. Instead, it’s a cricket shelter by Terreform One, New Lab’s only nonprofit futurist think-tank. Terreform works with clients to reimagine buildings, infrastructure, and public spaces. What if we stopped attempting to halt rising sea levels and started designing Manhattan's streets like Venice?

"Cities themselves, those are hundred year plans. My grad students’ grad students will be solving for that," says Terreform co-founder Mitchell Joachim, an MIT and Harvard alum who now teaches at NYU. "But we develop these arguments to stand the test of time, and be teased and tweaked so that others can add their voices and adjust as these ideas go along."

The cricket structure, teeming with tens of thousands of insects, is a reimagining of a standard emergency shelter. To solve for potential food shortages, the shelter houses both humans and crickets (a potent protein source that, by UN estimates, is eaten by over two billion people per year).

Today Terreform's working with a construction group in Soho to design a building that "rewilds New York": a seven-story structure with windowed walls that would function as a sanctuary for thousands of endangered monarch butterflies. Terreform has designed a sensing system to monitor the monarchs’ health on-site.

"We're trying to train technology to care for an organism that's very fragile," Joachim says.

He’s talking about butterflies, but might as well be speaking of the earth itself.
https://newlab.com/tech-fancy/3-unnatural-selection/

Monarch Sanctuary New York City, Terreform ONE

Terreform ONE 
The Monarch Sanctuary (Lepidoptera terrarium) will be eight stories of new commercial construction in Nolita, NYC. Programmatically, the building space will mostly contain retail and office life. Yet central to its purpose is serving as a semi-porous breeding ground, waystation, and sanctuary for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). It is a pioneering building – one that aims to be ecologically generous, weaving butterfly conservation strategies into its design through the integration of monarch habitat in its façades, roof, and atrium. Not just a building envelope, the edifice is a new biome of coexistence for people, plants, and butterflies.

The monarch butterfly of North America is a threatened species. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services is currently assessing whether the monarch needs to be granted “endangered species” status, while the monarch population erodes due to the combined forces of agricultural pesticides and habitat loss. Monarchs are a delicate presence in New York City, migrating each year from Mexico and Florida to the city’s precious green spaces to lay their eggs on the milkweed plant.

This project will vitally serve as a large-scale Lepidoptera terrarium. It will bolster the monarch’s presence in the city through two strategies: open plantings of milkweed and nectar flowers on the roof, rear façade, and terrace will provide breeding ground and stopover habitat for wild monarchs, while enclosed colonies in the atrium and street side double-skin façade will grow monarch population. The insects will be periodically released to join the wild population, enhancing overall species population numbers.

Our connection to the community of NYC is essential. The prime location will attract attention and educate the public on Monarch extinction. It has a total area of 30,000 square feet and is to be located in the heart of Nolita, between Soho and the burgeoning art district along the Bowery, and a few blocks west of the New Museum. The site is just around the corner from the Storefront for Art and Architecture and currently exists as two plots occupied by small residential buildings, which will be combined into a single property.

Although it is a relatively small commercial building by New York standards, the building will present a striking public face and a powerful argument in favor of a diversity of life forms in the city. It will face Petrosino Square, a small triangular paved public park, named after a fallen NYPD lieutenant. The façade of the Monarch Sanctuary building will add a lush vertical surface to the edge of the square.

The operable double-skin street façade, with a diagrid structure infilled glass at the outer layer and with “pillows” of EFTE foil at the inner layer, encloses a careful climate - controlled space, 3’ deep and 7 stories tall. This open “vertical meadow,” the terrarium proper, serves as an incubator and safe haven for Monarchs in all seasons. It contains suspended milkweed vines and flowering plants to nourish the butterflies at each stage of their life cycle. Hydrogel bubbles on the EFTE help maintain optimal humidity levels, and sacs of algae help purify the air and the building wastewater. Solar panels on the roof provide renewable energy to assist in the powering the facilities. Butterflies can come and go as they need from the building skin system.

Other features of the project are equally in service of the insects. LED screens at the street level provide magnified live views of the caterpillars and butterflies in the vertical meadow, which also connects to a multi-story atrium adjacent to the circulation core. Interior partitions are constructed from mycelium, and additional planting at the ceiling enhances the interior atmosphere and building biome. Hovering around the building, a few butterfly-shaped drones take readings and maps of the immediate microclimate. They return every few minutes to recharge, and their combined real-time data works to maintain the butterfly health.

The building is intended to serve as an object lesson in enhancing the urban environment with green technologies, including plant life and other creatures, in designing for other species, and in conveying images of new possibilities for the urban environment. This project alone will not save the Monarch but it will crucially raise awareness about our much-loved insect residents.

Client: Kenmare Square LLC. Jackie Jangana, and Andrew Kriss
Team: Terreform ONE
Principals: Mitchell Joachim, Christian Hubert
Project Architect: Nicholas Gervasi
Kristina Goncharova, Yucel Guven, Zhan Xu
Research: Larissa Belcic, Shahira Hammad, Deniz Onder, Aleksandr Plotkin
Tech Consultant: Anouk Wipprecht
Sponsor: Intel

Copyright © 2017-2019 All Rights Reserved 
Monarch Sanctuary™ Patent Pending. 

http://www.terreform.org/projects_butterfly.html

Hospitality Design magazine with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

Neil Jacobs, Hospitality Design, "Changemakers, The Experimentalist", Nov. 2017 Vol.39 no.10 pp.126-127.  
https://www.hospitalitydesign.com/people/interviews-in-depth/the-experimentalist/

Conversation with Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE in Arch2O

Arch2O: Zack Saunders (founder of ARCH[or]studio and Arch2O contributing editor) and Mitchell Joachim share thoughts on heroic feats of architecture, the distinction between a ‘Jaws’ problem and a ‘Piranha’ problem, building cities from scratch and the future of Terreform ONE. The following is an excerpt from a piece included in his forthcoming book: “Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities”, co-edited with Maria Aiolova. 
https://www.arch2o.com/conversation-mitchell-joachim-arch2o/

Intel Shift 2017 with Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE

Intel’s Premier Business EVENT. We live in an age of massive technological disruption. For business and IT leaders, the digital reset is creating new revenue opportunities as well as new challenges, prompting sweeping technology investment decisions. Join Intel and an exclusive set of your peers at SHIFT 2017 and experience digital business transformation in action. Hear from leading visionaries and technology innovators – and prepare to SHIFT your business for the future.

• Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT, best-selling author, and co-founder of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy
• Mitchell Joachim, PhD, innovator, and co-founder at Terreform ONE. Chosen by Wired Magazine for "The Smart List” and selected by Rolling Stone for “The 100 People Who Are Changing America”

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/events/shift/overview.html
https://twitter.com/IntelBusiness/status/922898769666035713

LafargeHolcim Award Winners Terreform ONE.

WINNER: Cricket Shelter and Modular Edible Insect Farm by Terreform ONE
This pavilion demonstrates the possibility of local insect farming as a form of protein with low-resource intensity, New York, United States. This project proposes an alternative to animal meat production that emits just 1 % of the greenhouse gas emissions and requires 0.001 % of the land to produce the same amount of protein annually when compared to beef production.
www.lafargeholcim-foundation.org/projects/cricket-shelter

Shukhov Lab Moscow, Lecture with Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE

Shukhov Lab Moscow, Laboratory for Experimental Urban Design,
National Research University Higher School of Economics, with Vicente Guallart.

Natural/ Designed Ecologies at Kent State with Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE

Kent State College of Architecture + Environmental Design - CAED
The 5th annual Water and Land symposium will provide a forum for today’s understandings of natural systems and contemporary innovative design approaches for improving cities and society. Topics of conservation/recreation; living materials/fabrication; and sustainable/urbanism will create discussion on the limits of knowledge and the road to greater environmental responsibility. Held on October 4th and 5th 2017, this symposium will attract more than 300 attendees from the many universities, federal, state and regional agencies, and private companies that populate northeastern Ohio and surrounding states. 

The conference will highlight new approaches to a variety of environmental and social issues through distinguished speakers and formal and informal discussions. A plenary session will set the stage for breakout sessions and posters in the afternoon. Breakout sessions will focus on “Conservation and Recreation,” “Living Materials,” and “Sustainable Urbanism.” These breakout sessions will be linked to poster sessions and will provide an opportunity for more specific discussions focused on key underlying issues. Registration is free and open to the public.
Keynote Address: Tim Beatley, University of Virginia, 
"Living Materials" Keynote: Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE
Reid Coffman, Architecture, Kent State University
James Fraser, Vanderbilt University
Laia Mogas Soldevila, Tufts University

Margarita Benitez, Fashion, Kent State University

Full Schedule at https://www.kent.edu/water

Ambiguous Territory Exhibition with Terreform ONE at University of Michigan

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural at A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan.

Exhibition Participants: Ellie Abrons, Paula Gaetano Adi + Gustavo Crembil, amid.cero9, Amy Balkin, Philip Beesley, Ursula Biemann, The Bittertang Farm, Borderlands Research Group, Edward Burtynsky, Bradley Cantrell, Design Earth, Mark Dion, Formlessfinder, Lindsey french, Adam Fure, Future Cities Lab, Geoarchitecture @ Westminster, Geofutures @ Rensselaer Architecture, Harrison Atelier, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Lisa Hirmer, Lydia Kallipoliti + Andreas Theodoridis, Perry Kulper, Sean Lally, Lateral Office + LCLA, LiquidFactory,  LNDSCPR, Meredith Miller + Thom Moran, NaJa & deOstos, NEMESTUDIO, Mark Nystrom, Office for Political Innovation, The Open Workshop, pneumastudio, Rachele Riley, Alexander Robinson, RVTR, Smout Allen, smudge studio, Neil Spiller, Terreform ONE, Unknown Fields, Marina Zurkow.
https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/events/2017/10/05/exhibition-reception-ambiguous-territory-architecture-landscape-and-postnatural

TED City of Tomorrow, Delhi and London

Two TED Talks in two cities for the City of Tomorrow Symposium at the London Symphony Orchestra, St. Luke's building UK, and Aerocity, Delhi, India Sponsored by Ford.
Photos: TED/Paul Clarke
http://cityoftomorrow.fordap.com/speakers/