6.28.2009
Green School Alliance: National Student Climate & Conservation Congress
6.26.2009
French American Conference of Entrepreneurs: Clean Tech
6.17.2009
DISCOVER covers the World Science Festival
6.16.2009
Mitchell Joachim in The WIP List
6.09.2009
Jet Pack Packing: Soft Mobility in the Sky
6.03.2009
Future North screens at BEYOND MEDIA
5.30.2009
Evolver Town Hall Event
May 31, 2009 - 1:30-5:30 PM St. Marks Church in the Bowery, corner of 10th St. and 2nd Ave.
Beyond Survive - We Thrive! On Sunday, May 31, join a city-wide gathering of innovative individuals, local groups, nonprofits, government organizations, and local businesses who are transforming today’s challenges into visionary opportunities. Discover new ways we New Yorkers can re-imagine our beloved Big Apple, making it resilient, thriving, funky, healthy, and green.
The event features workshops, panels, music, art, food, info tables, and more. Speakers will specifically address how YOU can make a direct impact in their area of expertise. Topics include: Renewable Energy & Efficiency, Green Jobs, Food Justice, Conscious Health and Living, Locally Supported Agriculture, Climate Change, DIY ART, Rooftop & Community Gardens, Media Activism, Resilient Neighborhoods & Communities, Local/Alternative Currency, and more. This event will celebrate the launch of Evolver.net, a social network for conscious collaboration, and mark the beginning of their off-line community, Evolver NYC. This is the first in a series of events to bring New York’s diverse tribes of transformation together to enact meaningful change.
Sponsored by Thrive NY and Evolver.net. http://evolver.net/event/townhall
5.19.2009
ASB Journal: Ecotransology
Mariana Serranova, "Mitchell Joachim: What is Ecotransology"
eVolo: Urban Refuse, Housing + Wall-E
Mitchell Joachim, “Housing for the 21st Century; Urban Refuse, Housing & Wall-E,” eVolo magazine, pp.62-63, issue 01, Fall.
Special thanks: Carlo Aiello
5.06.2009
The Colbert Report: Mitchell Joachim
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5.04.2009
TAR Magazine: Philippe Starck/ Mitchell Joachim
Philippe Starck & Mitchell Joachim, "Designs for Violence, Ecology, Religion & Politics", TAR, pp. 198-209, Issue 2, Spring 2009.
Special Thanks: Matt Pascarella, Alex Colard. Photos: Richard Burbridge.
http://www.tar-art.com/#
5.01.2009
AND Architecture, Italy: Interview
Daria Ricchi, "100% Sustainability: Interview with Mitchell Joachim," AND, pp.84-87, no. 14, April 2009.
http://www.and-architettura.it/
4.26.2009
Seed magazine: Thomas E. Lovejoy and Mitchell Joachim
4.22.2009
BrightTALK: The Carborexic City
Ecogram: Iron Designer at DUMBO
4.18.2009
Architects Newspaper: Ecological Urbanism Conference at GSD
4.14.2009
New York Post: Terreform 1 at MEx
4.07.2009
One Hour Tower: New Project
One Hour Tower:
Brain Juicer, NYC
4.01.2009
Design Green Now
Pratt InstituteApril 01, 2009 | Wednesday | 6 - 8:30pm | |
| Welcome and Introduction Andrew Personette - Executive Director, EcoSystems Presentations by: Paul S. Mankiewicz, PhD - Executive Director - Gaia Institute Jason Salfi - co-founder - Comet Skateboards Andrew H. Dent, PhD. - Vice President, Library and Materials Research - Material ConneXion Mitchell Joachim, PhD - Terreform 1 Moderated Discussion lead by: Dan Rubinstein - Design Editor - Surface Magazine http://www.designgreennow.com/2009/03/05/pratt-institute-materials/ |
3.18.2009
Rolling Stone: 100 People Who Are Changing America
2.21.2009
Harvard GSD Ecological Urbanism Conference
2.17.2009
PSFK Talks to Mitchell Joachim, Eco-Entrepreneur
Fab Tree Hab in Marvel Comics
SPIDER-MAN & THE HUMAN TORCH IN...BAHIA DE LOS MUERTOS! # 1
by Tom Beland and Juan Doe.
Special Thanks: Alejandro Arbona.
Available March 4th 2009.
2.10.2009
1.28.2009
New Willow Balls
We are fully committed to promoting the principles of ecotourism and responsible travel. It is very important to determine if your trip conserves and improves the places you visit outside the US. These newfangled mini-lodges are composed of prefabricated pleached structures. Each delicately green unit has complete access to composting toilets, gray water systems, and solar powered lighting. Insect netting made from hemp protects against pests. Each ball should weigh less than 60 pounds.
see more: WILLOW BALLS
1.26.2009
The Science for Life Conference, Canada
The 4th NORDIC URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE
1.18.2009
Why WALL•E Works: Cities of Rapid Re(f)use
When I arrived at the fabulous Walt Disney Imagineering headquarters in colorful Glendale California, my expectations were elevated. I was going to meet people with the finest imaginations on earth and talk shop. I had prepared a presentation that would unpack a comprehensive view of tomorrow’s world. It’s a world free of carbon loading in the atmosphere and abundant in self sufficient lifestyles. I had meticulously crafted cities so rich with green wisdom they made Kermit (the frog) appear like Dubya – or so I hoped. As an eco savvy architect, my work includes most things buildable within the rubric of a socio-ecological domain. Everyone and everything in these urban ideations were carborexic to the hilt. This means rethinking the design of entire systems, from doorknobs to democracies.
I design places for people to fit symbiotically into their natural surrounds. To achieve this, all things possible are considered. I design the cars, trains, blimps, streets, as well as the parks, open spaces, cultural districts, civic centers, business hubs, etc. that comprise the future metropolis. For centuries cities have been designed to accommodate the drama of our human will. I have joined the ranks of delivering a new sense of the city, one that privileges the drama of nature over anthropocentric whims. I was vying with the good people at Disney for a profound clairvoyant perspective. I wanted them to preview a likeness of our collective future yet untold. Much to my chagrin they were light-years ahead, at least when it came to the topic of municipal wastes. At the time, I had a sketch of a new city composed of waste ordered by massive industrial 3D printers. A cadre of my students had run thru a number of iterations. All were schematic, but I inherently knew this was an exciting vector. When Ben Schwegler, Chief Imagineer, Mouseketeer and mastermind, took me behind the proverbial black curtain to reveal WALL•E, I was crestfallen. They beat me too it.
WALL•E is perfect – almost. He is a tightly packaged solar powered, curious, obedient, evolved, robotic trash compaction and distribution device. His name is an acronym; Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class. Left behind by mankind, he toils with trillions of tons of non-recycled inner-city trash. Not only is he a highly advanced rubbish manager, he is a mechanized new fangled Mesopotamian architect. He piles Ziggurats quicker than Hammurabi. Also, and this is vital, he is incredibly adorable.
His life is a tale of an ultramodern trash compactor in love. Ceaselessly, he configures mountains of discard material. Why pyramids of trash? WALL•E’s daily perpetual feats seem almost futile. Disney omits exactly why he is programmed to pile refuse, and there's the rub.
I was interested in exploring a deeper motivation for stacking refuse. What if the refuse was re-fabricated to become urban spaces or buildings? How much new technology needs to be obtained to do so, or could I modify existing methods? If it is plausible to adapt the current machinery, how much material is available?
By Mitchell Joachim
Model: Mitchell Joachim & Webb Allen
1.17.2009
Dream The Impossible documentary from Honda
Honda showcases “DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE Documentary Series” by acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance and award-winning producers @radical.media.
“Mobility 2088” centers on the future of mobility as told by a collection of academics, scientists, sci-fi writers and artists, including; Mitchell Joachim, Dave Marek, Chee Pearlman, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jason Wilbur, Ben Bova, Scott Bolton, Yasunari Seki, Joe Johnston, Orson Scott Card, Chuck Thomas, Jim Keller, and Christopher Guest.
The film asks, “How will people get from point A to point B in 80 years?”
“Mobility 2088” will air at an exclusive screening before the highly anticipated “Mary and Max” at the Sundance Film Festival.
1.07.2009
Mark Primack at Metropolitan Exchange
1.01.2009
Bioworks Institute Website Launched 2009
Co-Founders: Oliver Medvedik, Ph.D. and Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. Bioworks Institute: An interdisciplinary endeavor that seeks to rethink biological art and design.
www.bioworks1.com
12.17.2008
EcoRedux Exhibition in Greece
Exhibition: "EcoRedux: Design Remedies for a Dying Planet", Byzantine Museum of Athens, Greece, December 2008. Event hosted in the framework of "Un-Built: International Architecture Research Events 2008.
The website will be uploaded in Feb. 2009 at www.ecoredux.com
Project: In Vitro Meat Hab, Terreform 1.
Curated: Lydia Kallipoliti in collaboration w/ Alicia Imperiale & Amie Shao.
12.16.2008
1000 x Architecture of the Americas
Fab Tree Hab by Terreform 1 is featured inside:
1000 x Architecture of the Americas, Verlagshaus Braun, p.429, 2008.
One of the "Best Architecture Books of 2008, 10 tomes from the superior to the indispensable," By Norman Weinstein, December 2008.
12.10.2008
See the work of DUB Studios
11.16.2008
11.11.2008
Recent Published Designs of Terreform 1

Daria Ricchi, "Cities from Scratch with Mitchell Joachim," Area, pp. 160-163, No. 99, IT. 2008.
Gerardo Mingo Pinacho, "City of the Future 2106," Future Arquitecturas, pp. 146,148, No. 10, ES. 2008.
Geraldine Zschocke “Super Cilia Skin,” Inform, p. 6, No. 9, Freiburg.
Ángeles Martínez, “Sustainable Designs of Mitchell Joachim,” BG Magazine, pp. 78-9, No. 036, Ecuador.
Iñaki Aguirre, “Bioviviendas De Última Generación,” Arquitectura y Diseño, No. 95.
Dorleta Vidal, “Human-Powered River Gym,” Le Grand Mag, p. 170, No. 5, Autumn/Winter.
Kenneth J. Moore, “Ecoarchitecture,” Chemical & Engineering News, p.56, Sept.
Dost Kip, Yerin Gelecegi, “Evin kendisi ekosistem,” YER Magazine, pp. 72-73, No. 2, TR.
Dave Vickers, “Pectoral Pedalo: River Gym,” Modern Design, p. 66, No. 15, Diseño Earle, ES.
Dave Vickers, “Home Grown: Fab Tree Hab,” Modern Design, p. 63, No. 12, Diseño Earle, ES.
Marta Gil, “Architecture in a Tree,” Arquitectura y Diseño, pp. 169-74. No. 88, Apr.
11.07.2008
Future North Ecotarium video exhibit at:
11.05.2008
Bioworks Institute Online in Brooklyn

Bioworks is a fully operational boutique biotechnology laboratory operated by Dr. Oliver Medvedik. He is partnered with Terreform 1 to produce molecular cell biology projects that advance architectural tectonics with living tissues and rapid prototyping technologies.
Rapid Re(f)use: New Project at Terreform 1
New York City is disposing of 38,000 tons of waste per day. Most of this discarded material ended up in Fresh Kills landfill before it closed. The Rapid Re(f)use project supposes an extended New York reconstituted from its own landfill material. Our concept remakes the city by utilizing the trash at Fresh Kills. With our method, we can remake seven entirely new Manhattan islands at full scale. Automated robot 3d printers are modified to process trash and complete this task within decades. These robots are based on existing techniques commonly found in industrial waste compaction devices. Instead of machines that crush objects into cubes, these devices have jaws that make simple shape grammars for assembly. Different materials serve specified purposes; plastic for fenestration, organic compounds for temporary scaffolds, metals for primary structures, and etc. Eventually, the future city makes no distinction between waste and supply.
Credits: Mitchell Joachim, Emily Johnson, Maria Aiolova, Niloufar Karimzadegan.
10.14.2008
NHPR: Redesigning Cities for the Future
9.24.2008
Wired & New America Foundation, Wash. D.C.
Dear President X: Think Big!
Speakers:
Robert Dalrymple: Professor: Johns Hopkins.
Mitchell Joachim: Partner, Terreform 1.
Parag Khanna: Director, Global Governance Initiative, New America Foundation.
Montgomery McFate: Senior Social Science Adviser, Army Human Terrain Sys.
Moderator: Nicholas Thompson: Senior Editor, Wired.
Friday, October 3rd. @ 12pm-1:30pm
New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor, Washington DC





