NYU Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment

We are very honored to be a part of this powerful NYU initiative on cities and ecological design.
"New York University’s Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment is an interdisciplinary and international effort to advance vital new research and teaching on cities and the urban environment."
http://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/

Mitchell Joachim, Código Magazine

Sandra Reyes, Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, Código Magazine, Feb.-Mar. #73, pp. 78-81.

Lecture, Rockford College

FORUM: The Organic City: Urbanism Redefined

Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE and NYU

DLD13 - Interview Mitchell Joachim

Cornell University Symposium

Design for Biodiversity: Architectural Responses to Urban Ecology

Michael Hensel + Jeffrey Turko
Philip Beesley
Mitchell Joachim + Maria Aiolova
Liss C. Werner
Jenny Sabin + Shu Yang
Birger Sevaldson + Søren Sørensen
Alexander Felsen
Dana Cupkova
Kevin Pratt
Marianne Krasny
Caroline O'Donnell
Michael Wells

ReGeneration book

ReGeneration explores the connection of cultural vitality to immigration, urbanization, and sustainability through the intersection of art, science and technology at the New York Hall of Science. 
Mitchell Joachim, "Design with Ecology," ReGeneration, New York Hall of Science, Meridian Press, p. 71.

Steve Dietz, Eric Siegel, Amanda Parkes (ed.)

DLD 2013 in Munich

Digital Design Life; Biosynthetic Architecture
http://dld-conference.com/events/400

Fab Tree Hab on frontpage: National Geographic

National Geographic interview of David Berman's new book; Sustainable Design features the Fab Tree Hab.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

NY Times: Bio Design with Gen2Seat and Mitchell Joachim

The Beauty of Bacteria
by Julie Lasky, NY Times, Thur. Jan. 17, 2013. pp. D1, D7.
A growing movement called bio design is looking to natural organisms like fungus and algae to shape the interiors of the future.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/garden/bio-design-in-the-home-the-beauty-of-bacteria.html?smid=pl-share

FROM THE ARTICLE:
"...Still, bio designers must grapple with the Frankenstein factor: a concern that their experiments will unleash some unmanageable new horror. Mitchell Joachim, who co-founded the architecture and urban design studio Terreform One in Brooklyn in 2006, and runs a bio lab within its precincts, says he is paid regular visits by representatives from Homeland Security and the F.B.I.

“They just come by to see what a healthy, working community-based lab looks like, as opposed to a terrorist cell,” Mr. Joachim said.

He believes the fear that researchers will blunder into a ghastly science-fiction situation is overwrought. “It’s like you’re designing a teapot and you accidentally make a machine gun,” he said. “It just doesn’t happen.”

Mr. Joachim is part of a team responsible for developing the concept of living trees grafted together to create a domed shelter. He has also imagined a house made of living tissue — though he prefers the term “meat” — and is working on a chair made from a new kind of compostable plastic that combines the root base of mushrooms with genetically reinforced cellulose. The additional ingredient is keratin (or what we call fingernails), meant to provide strength and water resistance.

Many believe chairs in general hit their peak in the mid-20th century and require no further refinement, but Mr. Joachim has other ideas. “Charles and Ray Eames couldn’t copy our chair,” he said . “It’s not an everyday project slapping together some steel and wood or fiberglass.”

He added: “And when you’re done with this chair, unlike an Ikea chair, you don’t landfill the thing. You throw it in the garden and it feeds other creatures. It’s part of the web of life.”"

Winner; Lanificio Factory Competition with OFL

Lanificio Factory Competition Winners, HortoContest, OFL Architecture, Rome, IT.
Architecture and Landscape Design: OFL Architecture (Francesco Lipari, Vanessa Todaro, Federico Giacomarra)
Location: Rome, Italy
Team: Mitchell Joachim (Sustainability Consultant), Alberto Serra (Technology Strategies), Nicola Corona (Cultivation Cycle), DOF Engineers – Felice Allievi (Engineering).

Scienceline Interview w/ Mitchell Joachim

"Breaking the mold, Mitchell Joachim is creating from scratch the materials we’ll need in days ahead"

By Rachel Feltman 

http://scienceline.org/2013/01/breaking-the-mold/

City Vision Magazine Interview w/ Mitchell Joachim

Francesco Lipari and Federico Giacomarra, "The Art of Cities, Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE," City Vision magazine, issue #7, autumn/winter 2012, pp. 64-71. 

This issue is dedicated to paleofuture (or retro-future), a trend in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future imagined in the past.

Innovations Management

INNOVATIONSMANAGER (Innovations Management) magazine, Terreform ONE, Fab Tree Hab, Dec. 2012, DE. pp. 6-7.

Open Science Challenge Award

Tri-State Open Science Challenge Awards $16K to Four Citizen Scientists
Assay Depot and Genspace announce winners and award funding for research projects;

• Kazi Yasin Helal – working on enzyme-based stain removal

• Peter Yeadon – constructing a bimolecular sensor system for arsenic and other chemicals

• Terreform ONE team* – building genetically generated furniture

SAN DIEGO CA &; NEW YORK NY — Assay Depot Inc., the world’s largest online research services marketplace, and Genspace selected four citizen scientists as winners for the first Tri-State Open Science Challenge. 
*Full roster of Terreform ONE: Mitchell Joachim PhD, Melanie Fessel, Maria Aiolova, Corrie Van Sice, James Schwartz, Josue Ledema, Tania Doles

There's a Future: Visions for a Better World

Mitchell Joachim, Melanie Fessel, Terreform ONE, "Rethinking Urban Landscapes; Self-Supported Infrastructure, Technology, and Territory", Francisco González, ed., There's a Future: Visions for a Better World, BBVA Publication, 2012. pp. 249-275.
http://www.bbvaopenmind.com/books/

metaLAB Lecture at Harvard

Lecture at metaLAB, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University at the experimental "Labrary" for the Networks & Natures series.

Design Miami - Vito Acconci in conversation with Mitchell Joachim

Design Talks: The Design Pioneers program presents the design world’s most compelling current topics, bringing together the creatives, collectors and critics actively influencing design discourse and production at Design Miami.

Speakers; Diane von Furstenberg and Stefano Tonchi
, Vito Acconci and Mitchell Joachim
, Wendell Castle and Alasdair Gordon.

Gen2Seat on Exhibition

Gen2Seat; Genetic Generation Seat on display for 
Cartographies Of Hope: Change Narratives Exhibition at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague.
Exhibiting artists: Daniel García Andújar, Kader Attia, Eva Bakkeslett, Michael Bielicky and Kamila Richter, Matthew Connors, Teddy Cruz, Amy Franceschini, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Michael Joaquin Grey, Ingo Günther, Toril Johannessen, Fran Ilich, OS Kantine, Krištof Kintera, Kitchen Budapest, Kultivator, Suzanne Lacy, Steve Lambert, Daniel Latorre and Natalia Radywyl, Lize Mogel, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nils Norman, Christian Nold, Sascha Pohflepp and Karsten Schmidt, Morgan Puett, Oliver Ressler, Abu Bakr Shawky, Superflex, Terreform ONE, Krzysztof Wodiczko,  The Yes Men and Ztohoven.

Huff Post GREEN

Exploring Socio-Ecological Design With Mitchell Joachim

by Frances Du and Denise Lu

From Huffington Post Green; "We recently had a chance to sit down with Mitchell Joachim, an associate professor at NYU and co-president of Terreform ONE, a nonprofit design organization based in Brooklyn that champions green design in urban areas."

Culture-ist Magazine Interview with Mitchell Joachim

Soft Cars and Living Homes: How Biologically-Based Architecture May be the Key to Greening Our Cities, November 9, 2012, by Frances Du and Denise Lu.

http://www.thecultureist.com/2012/11/09/living-homes-greening-cities-biologically-based-architecture-mitchell-joachim/

Mitchell Joachim at The Institute for Public Knowledge

Ecological Urbanism in Near Future Cities | Mitchell Joachim

This event is open to NYU affiliates and by request. 
Nov 12, 2012 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) 
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Main Conference Room 
http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/248 

From the IPK website; The Institute for Public Knowledge will host a series of conversations on cities. The meetings will feature presentations of new research by faculty from all parts of the university, and ample time for debate. We hope that the City Talks series will become a vibrant forum for discussions about the state and fate of the metropolis, and that it will promote the development of collaborative, multidisciplinary projects by NYU's extraordinary roster of urban specialists.

Wired UK, Urbaneering by Mitchell Joachim

URBANEERING

THE CITY OF THE NEAR FUTURE WILL BE DESIGNED BY A COOPERATIVE OF EXPERTS AND CITIZENS. WELCOME TO THE PLANET’S NEXT METROPOLISES. 

BY MITCHELL JOACHIM
Editor: David Baker, The WIRED World in 2013, pp. 89-90.

Urban design is at an impasse, unable to heal the rift between theory and practice and stuck in esoteric arguments such as “landscape urbanism” (concepts that favor landscape over architecture in order to plan a city) and “new urbanism” (schemes that promote historical pedestrian-centered neighborhood developments). Think of the Prince Charles-endorsed Poundbury in Dorset versus the West 8-designed interactive open spaces of Schouwburgplein in Rotterdam. Both of these concepts have their merits yet fail to coalesce on a holistic idea of the future city. So who should design our cities of the future? At ONE Lab, we feel we have found a solution with urbaneering: an interdisciplinary approach to urban design that will give us smarter cities. It will incorporate social-media platforms with citizen-design power. Everyday people will codesign alongside interdisciplinary teams to shape a clear lexicon of the future city.

Urban design has always been interdisciplinary, but it has not been revamped since its formal inception in the 50s. Urbaneering will involve urban designers in a huge range of ideas: crowdsourcing; DIY projects; localized renewable energy; shared transport, democratized e-government/e-commerce; high-throughput computation; biotechnology; and landscape ecology. It combines architecture, urbanism, ecology, media arts and community building, and will reinvent the complex mix of the city.

Urbaneers will have a set of skills and abilities that merge previously disparate occupations. Today, city government and grassroots movements have broader and more complex demands than single-discipline professionals can meet. We must break away from insular territories of knowledge. In its simplest form, urbaneering will attract people already working in design or planning, who want to widen their focus on cities in terms of topics such as food, water, air quality, mobility, energy and culture. The profession will include eco-based architect/engineers and action-based urban planners who put forward alternative plans for areas mired in shortsighted overdevelopment. The discipline will be home to almost any recombined professional activities, as long as they meet the constantly changing needs of urbanization. An excel- lent historical example of someone who now would be an urbaneer is Frederick Law Olmsted, the 19th-century activist who combined journalism, social action and landscape architecture to a single political end.

Urbaneering sets out to help people to become part of an initiative promoting the recalibration of the city. Projects such as London’s Canary Wharf, Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz, Barcelona’s waterfront, New York’s High Line, Masdar in the UAE and Tianjin in China already demand fresh directives. This new profession will provide them in astonishing ways. 


Mitchell Joachim is co-president of Terreform ONE, a nonprofit design group that promotes green design in cities (terreform.org)