Shop Terreform NOW!

Buy items from our on-line store today! We have our monograph, books, models, research journals, drawings, posters, prints, furniture, home accessories, artworks, and more for sale.

CLICK HERE: Shop Terreform NOW!

Aspen Ideas Festival w/ Terreform ONE

Post-Sustainability: New Directions in Ecological Urban Design

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova

Sustainability is a good thing. But is it good enough? Join the co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design studio Terreform ONE at the intersection of design, engineering, and synthetic biology for a journey beyond sustainability. Glimpse the future of energy, transportation, infrastructure, waste treatment, food, and water as they explore the socio-ecological possibilities of New York City and solutions for urban environments like it around the world.
http://www.aspenideas.org/schedule/fest1/6-28-2014

Futurists Propose "Walking City" of Configurable Housing Units Christian Hubert & Mitchell Joachim

The following proposal, by the architects and futurists at Terreform ONE, was submitted for our May cover feature, in which we asked designers to envision new models of multigenerational housing. IMAGE: Nicholas Gervasi

"Multigen" will enable generations to live together, but still preserve options to move away for any length of time. Not only will extended families be able to live together "under one roof," they will also have the option of combining their living units with those of, say, their grandparents, parents, or children. These can, in turn, be integrated into greater settlement patterns, including cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

http://www.metropolismag.com/Point-of-View/June-2014/Futurists-Propose-Walking-City-of-Configurable-Housing-Units/

Terreform ONE, OfficeUS Outpost la Biennale di Venezia

Pavilion of the United States of America at the 14^th International Architecture Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, OfficeUS, a global collaborative architectural practice founded by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Ana Miljački and Ashley Schafer.

TEAM Outposts: Allard van Hoorn, Anda French, Aristide Antonas, Austin Mergold, Benjamin Porto, Cara Liberatore, Caroline Smith, Chrissi Nasz, Ciro Miguel, Constantin Boym, Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Danielle Rago, Doreen Adengo, Eva Alvarez, Fabio Gigone, Fabrizio Furiassi, Filippo Cattapan, Garrick Jones, Hanna Espinosa, Henry Smith-Miller, Ioannis Oikonomou, Jean Benoit Vetillard, Jenny French, Jonathan Crisman, Jorg Sieweke, Juan Molina Restrepoe, Kristy Balliet, Lisa Pauli, Luis Diego Quiros Pacheco, Maj Plemenitas, Maria Pilar Pinchart, Mart Schaefer, Matthew Messner, Mitchell Joachim, Nazanin Naeini, Nick Axel, Pablo Costa, Pamela Ritchot, Paolo Migliori, Patrizia Toscano, Paul Preissner, Peter Macapia, Phillip Denny, Quilian Riano, Ragunath Vasudevan, Sahra Motalebi, Samuel Stewart-Halevy, Sara Dean, Sasa Zivkovic, Selma Alihodzic, Sindy Martínez Lortia, Stephen Mueller, Taller de Casquería Collective, Tamar Alon, Ted Landrum

http://www.officeus.org/ 
PRESS:
http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101822207214-1172/OfficeUS_Press_Release_Outposts_062614.pdf

Terreform ONE Is hosting IaaC Global Summer

The IaaC students will join us this summer for two weeks of intense exploration at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. http://www.iaac.net/educational-programms/the-next-city-2014-43

Maria Aiolova at Water Week NYC

Maria Aiolova presented Terreform ONE's vision for the NYC Waterfront. With Mayor Dawn Zimmer and David Rockefeller Jr.
http://www.inventropolis.com/waterweek-nyc/

Terreform ONE - VIP Party at the Venice Biennale

Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE, The Atlantic NY IDEAS

The Atlantic and the Aspen Institute's New York Ideas talk with Mitchell Joachim of Terreform ONE, A Tree Grows Under Manhattan.
http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/new-york-ideas/2014/#event-speakers

Weltstadt - Who creates the city? Mitchell Joachim Terreform ONE, Berlin

New Civil Society: Stagnation in climate policy, vacant properties in the post-industrial city, privatization of public spaces and displacement of socially vulnerable people from the city. Increasing numbers of citizens no longer intend to wait and are taking their future into their own hands. They are repurposing abandoned buildings, trying out resource-saving ways of life and they are demanding their right to the city. How is the self-organization and horizontal linkage between these civil-society actors succeeding?
Davis Kanepe, Cultural Activist, Kanepes Cultural Center, Riga
Mitchell Joachim, Architect and Professor, New York University
Purev-Erdene Ershuu, Architect and Lecturer, Mongolian University of Science and Technology 


http://www.daz.de/sixcms/detail.php?object_id=&area_id=34&id=12659193&template_id=46&lang=en

Future City Berlin

Symposium on Speculative Design Practices and Heterodox Pedagogy: with Maria Aiolova, Sarah Whiting and Matthias Bottger. 
Sponsored by: Terreform ONE,  Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) and CIEE.

http://www.daz.de/sixcms/detail.php?object_id=&area_id=34&id=12477417&template_id=46&lang=en

ONE Prize 2014 Competition Launched - Smart Dock!

DUE AUG 31st: ONE Lab is seeking design schematics for the Smart Dock that are both iconic and ready to construct.
see here:
http://oneprize.org/

A+ Award Popular Choice Winner, Terreform ONE

Nurhan Goktur, Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova at the A+ Award Ceremony.

Our project; BIO CITY WORLD MAP OF 11 BILLION is the A+ Award Popular Choice Winner in the Plus Categories | Architecture + Communication.

This is an unparalleled honor. With entries from over 100 countries, this work truly represents the best of architecture worldwide. The Architizer A+ Popular Choice Winner is selected by the online voting public after a three week long campaign. 

http://architizer.com/projects/bio-city-world-map-of-11-billion/

BBC Future Building Tomorrow Exhibit with Terreform ONE

id you know that by 2050, 7 out of every 10 people will live in a large city? Check out how BBC.com proposes we work today to transform our cities for a better tomorrow. The Building Tomorrow exhibit will take place at Openhouse Gallery’s 168 Bowery in April!

- See more at: http://thekagency.com/the-kagency-invite-bbc-building-tomorrow-exhibit-introducing-home-studios-2-djs-whitney-fierce-mad-marj-hit-the-decks/#sthash.pVAeieEW.dpu

Openhouse Gallery’s 168 Bowery

Openhouse Gallery’s 168 Bowery

BBC Future Building Tomorrow Exhibit in New York Thur. April 3rd, 6pm, at Openhouse Gallery 168 Bowery, New York, NY. RSVP info@terreform.org

VIA Festival International with Terreform ONE

Exposition Micro/ Macro, Le Manège Maubeuge, France and Mons, Belgium. 
featuring:
TERREFORM ONE : BIO CITY MAP OF 11 BILLION
PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ : HEXABOITE / MEUBLES OPTIQUES / LA GROSSE TÊTE / KRONOFOTO
ANTI VJ : 3DESTRUCT
HEATHER DEWEY-HAGBORG : STRANGER VISIONS
IKEUCHI HIROTO : DESK TURNED DIORAMA
TOM KOK & BRITT HATZIUS : MICRO EVENTS
ALAIN JOSSEAU : AL-THANIYAH DISTRICT (COLLATERAL MURDER) / COORDONNEES : 33° 18’48.524’’ N, 4°30’43.17’’ E
RYOICHI KUROKAWA : OSCILLATING CONTINUUM
CHARLOTTE LEOUZON : MICRO MACRO (sélection de films)
BRENNA MURPHY : CRÉATION
CARSTEN NICOLAI : AOYAMA SPACES
BERND OPPL : FLOCK / DELAY ROOM
BORIS PETROVSKY : DAS VERGERÄT
ANNE ROQUIGNY : 111oOzOo111 (sélection d’œuvres du web)
CANDAS SISMAN : MAKROMIKRO / CYCL
KRIS VERDONCK : MONSTER
http://www.lemanege.com/cgi?lg=fr&pag=1310&tab=111&rec=981&frm=0

Anya Bokov is the New Director of History and Theory at Terreform ONE

Anya Bokov is an architectural thought leader, urban designer and practitioner. She earned; B.Arch. Syracuse University, M.Arch. Harvard Graduate School of Design, and currently a PhD. candidate, Yale University. Anya taught at the Moscow Architectural Institute and Northeastern University School of Architecture in Boston. She was an editor of the Project Russia magazine, a leading architectural periodical in Russia. She has worked as an architect and urban designer with NBBJ in Moscow and Columbus, Ohio; City of Somerville/Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development in Somerville, Massachusetts; Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam; Gluckman Mayner Architects and Polshek Partnership/Ennead in New York. Anya is studying the history of early modernist design education in the Soviet Union and the VKhUTEMAS school. Her research focuses on the architectural methodology developed by Nikolay Ladovsky and his colleagues that pioneered the creative design process through model-making, incorporated psychology and perception theories, and aligned architecture and urban design with the new technologies and methods of industrial production.

Smart Dock: ONE Lab Educational Facilities at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

2014 ONE PRIZE - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 
ONE Lab is seeking design proposals for the Smart Dock that are both symbolic and buildable. The design should symbolize the ideas and values of ONE Lab: Interdisciplinary learning, studio-based design, collaborative space, DIY making, hacking. The Smart Dock should address the future of learning environments that inflects the trajectory of experimental design schools into the new spaces of socio-ecological design in times of climate change.
Competition entries should develop strategies for the identity for ONE Lab as the educational and public component of this vibrant center for design and science, with interfaces to state-of-the art equipment and a network of creative and entrepreneurial affiliates. We intend to build the winning entry.



http://www.oneprize.org/index.html

Prof. Oliver Medvedik, Cooper Union

Prof. Oliver Medvedik from The Cooper Union Frontpage: 
"Learn How to Sequence DNA in Less Than a Day" 

Though less well known than the four degree-granting engineering disciplines -- chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical -- bioengineering has a place at The Albert Nerken School of Engineering. The practice of applying engineering principles to the life sciences happens chiefly through the Maurice Kanbar Center for Biomedical Engineering and through the Sandholm Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology and Bioengineering, a two-year position currently held by Prof. Oliver Medvedik. A native of New York City, he co-founded Genspace, a non-profit biotechnology laboratory for classroom and public use. Now into his second semester, Prof. Medvedik has begun rounding up students to attend iGEM, an annual, national synthetic biology competition. We sat down with him for a chat about iGEM, Genspace, his ambitions during his time at Cooper and why the thought of bioengineered terrorism doesn't worry him...too much."

Terreform ONE Official Selection of the Venice Biennale

We are happy to announce that Terreform ONE’s work is part of the official selection of the 14^th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale directed by Rem Koolhaas from June 7th to November 23rd, 2014. 

The Bio City Map, created by the nonprofit organization Terreform ONE, is a forecast of the world population distribution in the 25 densest cities on Earth. The map displays population density as a parametric graph on the front. The map back focuses on each of these cities, designed and grown inside petri dishes with colonies of E. Coli as a method of analog computation. This is an interdisciplinary project where architects, urban planners, biologists, sociologists, and artists were all working together to create a map of the near future of human population growth. 

The Global Art Affairs Foundation, under the direction of Rem Koolhaas, has curated the exhibitions at Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora as an official part of the Venice Architecture Biennale. They have selected the Bio City Map as a key component of the exhibition. The project has already been exhibited internationally at the New Institute (NAI) in Rotterdam and the Onsite [at] OCAD U Gallery in Toronto.

Terreform ONE’s participation at the Venice Biennale is made possible by the generous support of CIEE, the world leader in international education and exchange. Terreform ONE has organized a workshop for students as a part of CIEE Global Architecture and Design Program. The students will study population growth in cities and participate in the installation of the Bio City World Map project for the opening of the Biennale. 

Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE Co-Founder and Associate Professor of Practice at NYU will lead a group of advanced researchers and students from NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study abroad. According to Terreform ONE Co-Founder and CIEE Academic Director for Global Architecture and Design Maria Aiolova, “The students will have the opportunity to learn new methods of studying urban growth and interact with world renowned architects, designers and thought leaders.” Terreform ONE Partners’ Melanie Fessel, Nurhan Gokturk and Oliver Medvedik will be also collaborating closely with the students.
VISIT: Bio City Map; Global Architecture and Design.

Lecture in Istanbul w/ Terreform ONE, Mitchell Joachim

sponsored by YEM Etkinlik and Geberit

New Book: Super Cells

Mitchell Joachim and Nina Tandon describe the tantalizing array of inventions already being created with nature’s elemental building block: the cell. Imagine personalized bone replacements, living condominium complexes, bacteria-made haute couture, and top sirloin grown without a farm. 
http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B00ICXN3VA/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_eos_detail

Harvard Graduate School of Design Lecture w/ Mitchell Joachim

Projective Views on Urban Metabolism at GSD 

Mitchell Joachim, Socio-ecological Design

Chris Reed, Projective Processes

Ila Berman, Productive Recircuiting 

Moderator: Hashim Sarkis 

https://new-geographies.squarespace.com/events/#/projective-views-on-urban-metabolism/

IaaC Barcelona - Winter Lecture Series 2014: Maria Aiolova

Maria Aiolova delivered the first lecture in the Winter Series at the Institute of Advance Architecture in Catalonia. http://www.iaac.net/lectures?id=246

Terreform ONE - Bio City Map: Biology as Computation

In the next 100 years we can expect human population to reach 11 billion people. Is this sustainable? We used the Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Map to take a view of the world and look at the 25 densest cities on the planet. Our Bio City Map displays population density as a parametric graph on the front. The backside zooms in on each of these cities designed and built and grown inside petri dishes.
We chose colonies of E. Coli as a method of analog computation. Population density was represented in two different forms of bioluminescent E. coli under UV light. Glowing red E. coli represented future projections, while green represented existing conditions in cities. We used the dilution method in biology to show the range of densities of E. coli populations in each petri dish. Stencils derived from CAD files would shape the E. coli into specific geometries that display the current conditions in cities. This is an interdisciplinary project because cartographers, urban planners, biologists, and architects, were all working to think about a map of the near future of human population.

Making the Bio City World Population Map of 11 Billion

Terreform ONE Exhibit + Talk w/ Maria Aiolova at Smart City World Congress in Barcelona

http://www.smartcityexpo.com/en/home

Smart cities for 11 billion people: Mitchell Joachim at TEDxBerlin

Tour of Terreform ONE Studio at New Lab w/ Vimeo

Terreform from Mitchell Joachim on Vimeo.

POSTmatter with Terreform

Terreform ONE design studio explores global population growth in a new sculptural piece, using genetically modified bacteria - by Jonathan Openshaw, POSTmatter.
http://postmatter.com/#/currents/bio-city-map/

New Bio City Map of a Renewable Energy Power Grid for a Planet with Open Geopolitical Boarders - Free Power for All People for Life from Sun, Wind, Geothermal, Biomass, and Hydro sources.
See also: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/world-map-installation-uses-e-coli-and-jellyfish-proteins-to-illuminate-our-population-in-2100

Biological Urbanism Exhibit of Terreform ONE at OCAD Toronto

Exhibit - Biological Urbanism: An Opera of Disciplines from Architecture, Landscape, Urban Design, Biology, Engineering and Art.
Lisa Deanne Smith, Curator, Onsite [at] OCAD U is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between multiple mediums — art, curating, writing and arts administration — exploring issues of voice, experience and power. Recent curatorial projects at Onsite [at] OCAD University include No Dull Affairs: Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese, Jillian McDonald; Ads for People: Selling Ethics in the Digital Age; and I Wonder: Marian Bantjes. She received an M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Terreform ONE: Mitchell Joachim, Nurhan Gokturk, Melanie Fessel, Maria Aiolova, and Oliver Medvedik. see: http://archinode.com/terreform-brochure.pdf
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
Free and Open to the General Public