Terreform ONE at the Rockefeller Innovation Forum

Maria Aiolova on a panel at the Rockefeller Innovation Forum with Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Aneesh Chopra, First CTO of the USA, Clair Diaz-Ortiz, Twitter and Ada Wong, Make A Difference.

 

http://centennial.rockefellerfoundation.org/pages/innovation-forum-2012

Great Opening at White Box Gallery in Manhattan!

White Box Gallery Opening

Austrian Cultural Forum NY, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Museum of Arts and Design NY invite you to DESIGN FOR THE REAL WORLD – REDUX: An exhibition presenting the winners of Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award

Opening reception: Wednesday, June 20, 6 – 9 PM

White Box Gallery

329 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002

www.whiteboxny.org

The exhibition celebrates the outcome of the inaugural “Design for the RealWorld Redux” international social design competition taking place from March to June 2011, organized by the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, in partnership with the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.  
The winning projects were: Terreform ONE “Urbaneering Brooklyn 2110: Ecological City of the Future,” a socio-ecological exploration of the future metropolis; Wendy Brawer “Open Green Map” website, which fosters sustainable community development through inclusive participation; Lauren Busto and Yves Béhar and Fuseproject “OLPC XO-3 Tablet,” a children’s educational tool for worldwide distribution; Lars Vedeler, Marc Hoogendijk, Sophie Thornander, Karin Lidman, and Kristin Tobiassen “Jani Sanitary Pad” made from biodegradable biopolymers and water hyacinth paper;

The exhibition is curated by Terreform ONE;

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Adrian De Silva, Linn Blasberg, Susanna Burrows, Bojana Djukanovic, Shivina Harjani, Andrew Liang, Caleb Lowery, Pianka Paul, Savina Romanos, James Schwartz, Stefan Stanojevic, Nacho Suqué.

Speaker of the New York City Council Christine C. Quinn Heads the Jury of ONE Prize 2012

Terreform ONE is proud to announce that Speaker Quinn has agreed to chair a dynamic selection of jury members for the ONE PRIZE 2012: Blight to Might, an open international design competition for transforming cities through innovation.
Christine C. Quinn has spent her career in public service, fighting for policies and services that are critical to the lives of New Yorkers. As a Speaker of the City Council, she has helped New York City to develop an economy of innovation through tax credits and initiatives to support new ventures in the five boroughs.
www.oneprize.org 

Registration and Submission; June 30, 2012.

Brooklyn Navy Yard Press Release

Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg and Borough President Markowitz announced New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Terreform ONE together with Columbia University, Cooper Union and RPI CASE will join Macro Sea at this stunning place for design and innovation.

Andrew M. Cuomo - Governor

The Blue Network Panel at TransTrans

Maria Aiolova moderating a panel at the TransTrans Summit with Helena Durst, VP Durst Organization and Alex Washburn, Chief Urban Designer, NYC DCP.  TransTrans Summit

The Wall Street Journal, 'Green' Center to Cultivate Manufacturers

 

By LAURA KUSISTO for WSJ

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has landed two anchor tenants for an industrial center focused on environmentally friendly tenants, giving hope to state and city officials trying to establish a modern manufacturing base in the borough. Crye Precision, a manufacturer of body armor and clothing for the U.S. military, will lease 80,000 square feet of space in the planned Green Manufacturing Center, state officials said. The company is already a Navy Yard tenant, renting about 45,000 square feet and employing about 110 people. The expansion would allow the firm to hire about 100 new employees over the next five years.

"We are thrilled that our future will remain here," said Caleb Crye, executive director of Crye Precision, in a statement.

Another New York company, Macro Sea, will open a more than 50,000-square-foot facility called New Lab, for designers, digital manufacturers, architects and university researchers to create new products. A number of colleges and designers have expressed interest in working at the lab, including Cooper Union, Columbia University's Laboratory of Applied Building Science, Terreform ONE, a Brooklyn based nonprofit design group, and Within Lab, a London-based design consultancy.

The two anchors are set to be announced on Friday by state and city officials. They are part of a broader strategy to revitalize the city's manufacturing base by drawing on its strength as a hub of design schools, universities and, increasingly, technology companies.

"This project…highlights the very close links between local universities and this new generation of design-intensive manufacturing that's going on in New York," said Andrew Kimball, president and chief executive of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.

The Green Manufacturing Center will be at the heart of this effort, officials said. Construction is set to begin this summer, and it is scheduled to be completed in 18 months at a cost of $46 million. It will be housed in three former World War II-era machine shops, and its tenants are expected to create more than 300 new permanent jobs.

The three buildings, totaling 220,000 square feet, have sat vacant for half a century, and they became "a hulking structure of a building that symbolized years of neglect and decay," said Mr. Kimball.

David Belt, managing principal of Macro Sea, said he sees the new lab as a model for the kind of innovative light manufacturing in which New York still has a competitive advantage.

"The U.S. is never going to be able to compete with developing countries like China when it comes to traditional manufacturing, but when it relates to innovation…we can compete on that level," Mr. Belt said.

The Green Manufacturing Center is part of a much larger expansion of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is expected to add more than 1.8 million square feet of new space and more than 2,500 new jobs over the next two years. The center is being funded by the Empire State Development Corp., the Brooklyn Borough President's Office and the City Council, along with a federal program that awards green cards to foreigners who invest in U.S. businesses.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a statement called the project an example of the state investing "in a productive and sustainable innovation economy that will put New Yorkers back to work now and for years to come."

A version of this article appeared May 18, 2012, on page A17 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: 'Green' Center to Cultivate Manufacturers.

TransTrans Summit April 26th

$5 gas and record temperatures may make transportation innovation this summer’s hot topic.  Even minor climate change could render much of NYC’s subway network useless.  However, NYC has a powerful alternative – its blue network of waterways.  Join Panel Chair Maria Aiolova and the expert panelists and discuss NYC’s blue network and the potential for water transportation innovation. 

 

Panelists include:

 

·         Helena Durst, VP Durst Organization.

·         Roland Lewis, CEO of  the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.

·         Alexandro Washburn, Chief Urban Designer, NYC DCP.

http://www.e3blue.com/trans/index.htm

The Smart Cities of Tomorrow

As metropolises evolve, the smart city characteristics of the grid will move beyond simple energy efficiency, and will be gateways into human efficiency. Maria Aiolova presented at the Smart Cities of Tomorrow Panel at the Agrion Conference on April 5th, 2012. The panel took a closer look at the recent evolution of the smart grid and how cities are taking advantages of those new technologies to increase sustainability and quality of life for its inhabitants.

Urban Evolutions: Electric Vehicles and Smart Grid Acceleration & The Smart Cities of Tomorrow

3RD Ward Lecture: Terreform ONE

Envisioning Ecological Cities: The Sci-Fi Based Solution to Climate Change
3RD Ward, Brooklyn
How should urban design foresee new instrumentalist technologies for cities? Elevator systems have had incredible success in the creation of compact and greener cities, but can you imagine what the advent of the jet pack will do? Join us as Mitchell Joachim, Ph.D. from Terreform ONE discusses how urban design will successfully situate itself by the production of future macro-scaled scenarios predicated on innovative devices.
http://www.3rdward.com/envisioning-ecological-cities/2012/3/27/envisioning-ecological-cities-lecture.html

The Cooper Union Event - Urban Planet: Emerging Ecologies

The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) will host URBAN PLANET: EMERGING ECOLOGIES, a one-night event featuring a unique series of lectures and discussions with internationally known thought leaders in development and design. Key speakers include: 

Alfredo Brillembourg, Urban-Think Tank and S.L.U.M. Lab, will bring a social investment perspective to these questions, 

Jean-Claude Bolay, Director of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, will discuss the role of technology in the emerging global city and 

Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE and Planetary ONE, will explore the move beyond standard notions of “sustainability” toward urban systems that actively benefit their environment.

http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/urban-planet-emerging-ecologies

Futuristic: Visions of Future Living

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE, Futuristic: Visions of Future Living, daab books, Editors: Caroline Klein, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lieb

What will the world look like in a hundred years from now? If global processes cannot be stopped, we at least have the chance to respond to them. Cities, shooting up like mushrooms, a shortage of resources, and climatic changes call for a new way of thinking. Time is pressing. Fortunately, there is no lack of visionaries and pioneers of sustainability. Futuristic presents about 50 of them: designers, architects, artists, scientists, cooperatives, and individualists, who are working for progress all around the globe. “We do not actually want to conquer space, but to expand the earth into the infinite. We do not need other worlds, but a mirror … Man needs fellow human beings.” [Stanislav Lem, Solaris, 1972]

Introduction by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Lieb.

Essays by Kaas Oosterhuis, The Why Factory (t?f), Florian Heilmeyer, Winka Dubbeldam, J. Mayer H., Christoph Ingenhoven, Philippe Rahm, Dickson Despommier, Caroline Klein, Alberto T. Estévez, Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova.

ONE Prize Award Ceremony + Exhibition at AIA NY

When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 

Where: A.I.A. New York: The Center for Architecture 

Join us for the award ceremony and opening of the exhibition
ONE Prize 2011: Water as the Sixth Borough
Exhibition on view at the Center for Architecture January 18 - February 11, 2012.

Sponsors

 

Institutional Sponsors
Buckminster Fuller Institute
New York University 
NYU Poly

Media Sponsors
Architizer 
eVolo 
e-architect 

Partners
E3NYC 

Talk Radio: Burning Down the House

Heritage Radio Network: This week's conversation on Burning Down the House focuses on the fusion between urban design, architecture, transportation and shape of our cities. Curtis B. Wayne is joined by Mitchell Joachim and Melanie Fessel of Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology), an Ecological Design Group for Urban Infrastructure, Building, Planning, and Art. Later on the show, the discussion shifts towards the sensitive and heated topic of licensure in architecture within their non-profit practice. This program was sponsored by White Oak Pastures. 

"Pedestrians are the alpha position to explore a city. The foot is the best interface." --Mitchell Joachim on Burning Down the House 

"Infrastructure is not celebrated enough in the United States." --Melanie Fessel on Burning Down the House 

http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/2186-Burning-Down-the-House-Episode-86-Urban-Design-Transportation-Architecture

Terreform ONE in Metropolis Magazine

Collaborations Welcome:

Two thriving design collectives—housed in a nondescript building
in Brooklyn—may provide a model for a new way of working. 

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20111115/collaborations-welcome

Motherboard TV: Upgrade: The Living House | Motherboard

Motherboard TV: Upgrade: The Living House | Motherboard

Terreform 1st Place Winners in Vienna

Terreform in the press: Die Presse, Austria
"Social Design: Eine bessere Welt auf Wien-Besuch"

Nov. 12, 2011, Norbert Philipp and Karin Schuh (Die Presse)
Together with the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, the University of Applied Arts launched the competition Design for the Real World REDUX in Spring 2011.

Winning project Brooklyn Urbaneering 2110. 

Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel and Adrian De Silva:

collaborators: Dan O’Connor, Celina Yee, Alpna Gupta, Sishir Varghese, Aaron Lim, Greg Mulholland, Derek Ziemer, Thilani Rajarathna, John Nelson, Natalie DeLuca.

E-Waste Bot for Cities

Terreform ONE at Tallinn Architecture Biennale

Maria Aiolova was invited to present Terreform ONE's work at the First International Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) that took place September 8th – 11th in the Estonian capital. TAB’s main theme was landscape urbanism and the relationships between the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. TAB comprises of multiple types of events: exhibitions, vision competition, symposium, lectures, discussions, workshops and guided tours in various parts of Tallinn. Invited guests included architects and related professionals from Estonia, United States, United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. For more information go to http://www.tab.ee/

A Terreformed Summer

Last week at the Phaidon Bookstore in Soho, White Box Gallery held a benefit for their new sustainable art garden by organizing a panel discussion called “Sustainable Work Lab: new projects in art, architecture and urban design.” Ali Hossaini moderated the discussion between landscape designer Frances Levine, architect David Turnbull, and urban designer Maria Aiolova.
by Tom Stoelker

see more at Architect's Newspaper A/N Blog

The Optimist

Maria Aiolova on the cover of WIT Magazine.

The Optimist 

One way to ensure a better future for our planet? Give people something to look forward to.

ONE Prize 2011 Winners Announced!

Jury Session: Roberta Weisbrod, Charles McKinney, Matthias Hollwich, Maria Aiolova, Amanda Burden, Bjarke Ingels,

Wellington Chen and Helena Durst. (from left to right)

Terreform ONE is proud to announce the finalists of:

Water as the 6th Borough: 

Open International Design Competition to Envision the Sixth Borough of New York City

Urban Mobility: Terreform on Current TV

Terreform Company Profile in Google Think Quarterly

Innovation Spaces  Terreform ONE is a non-profit design group that promotes green design in cities. It is based in Brooklyn, New York. At Terreform ONE we need ‘messy’ spaces to create a massive outpouring of projects and models. We have a collection of materials and artifacts found throughout the city of New York that add to the environment. These seemingly random objects are essential to helping us formulate complex morphologies into tangible suppositions.  Design is seeing new qualities in everyday objects. We surround ourselves with these seemingly random items to be inspired just so. Our working studio is similar to the toymaker’s shop in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner – a physical narrative of possibilities ready to be animated. -- Mitchell Joachim, Co-founder
by Holly Finn and Matt Bochensk, Google Think Quarterly

Terreform at The Economist; The Outlook for Growth

Mitchell Joachim at the Economist 

http://ideas.economist.com/presentation/outlook-growth

Future Shock: Escape the Urban Jungle

Published Feb. 08: designbuild-network.com

"The UN forecasts that growing urban populations will place unprecedented strain on the infrastructure of our cities. Mitchell Joachim and Jürgen Mayer talk to Rod James about the relationship between cities and their inhabitants and the need for a radical reimagining of the urban landscape."

"Forceful views such as this make Joachim, co-founder of urban design group Terreform ONE, not only one of the most influential thinkers in his field but also a journalist's dream. An associate professor at NYU and senior fellow of the TED organization, Joachim has done more than anyone to highlight the need for a radical rethink of the way architects and urban planners approach their trade. This desire for change is motivated by a demographic force that is becoming too strong to ignore."

Future Shock: Escape the Urban Jungle

Terreform in The Huffington Post

Mitchell Joachim Of Terreform ONE Imagines A Zero-Impact New York 100 Years From Now  

by Damiano Beltrami, The Huffington Post:

Architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim hates the idea of a lower-pollution New York a hundred years from now. He envisions a city that actually eliminates pollution.  "I want a city that cleans up the impact of the last hundred and fifty years of industrial waste. It has to have a positive impact," said Joachim, pacing up and down his studio in the Metropolitan Exchange building on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.  At a time when most progressive urban designers try to make cities greener, this co-founder of the nonprofit design group Terreform ONE and his team are on a crusade to radically change the notion of how cities like New York will function in a hundred years. Only completely flipping ideas about housing, transportation, and recreation spaces can city planners project a revolutionary urban habitat, according to Joachim and his crew.

ONE Prize 2011: Water as the 6th Borough in NYC

Open International Design Competition to Envision the Sixth Borough of New York City:
The ONE PRIZE committee invites the most talented and imaginative architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, economists, artists, students, and individuals to propose ideas for the NYC Blue Network and The World’s Largest Clean Tech Expo in 2014.

These propositions must include; expanding waterborne transportation, linking the five boroughs with transit hubs, incorporating ferries, water taxis, bike shares, electric car-shares, electric shuttle buses, providing in-water recreation, educational events, cultural activities, pavilion halls, and climate resilience.
visit: www.oneprize.org

Terreform ONE in Topos 73

Urbaneering Brooklyn NY 2110 - The Sci-Fi-Based Solution to Climate Change

An intensified version of an autarchic Brroklyn supplies all vital needs fpr its population. Dilapidated structures are replaced with vertical agriculture and housing merged with infrastructure. Visionary operations are not just about a comprehensive model of tomorrow's city, but an initial platform for discourse..  Author: Joachim, Mitchell

Terreform ONE in New York Times

 

On Flatbush Avenue, Seven Stories Chock-Full of Ideas, by Jed Lipinski, Photos Benjamin Norman  Published NYTimes: January 11, 2011.

 "Mitchell Joachim, an ecological architect and one of three TED fellows (for technology, entertainment and design)on the floor, likens the Metropolitan Exchange to a modern-day version of Bauhaus, the German design school. “People here have enormous credentials and potential to succeed,” Mr. Joachim said. “Plus the rent is ridiculously cheap.”  Mr. Joachim’s nonprofit design collective, Terreform One, promotes green initiatives in cities. Its conceptual projects are on display, including One-Day Tower, a model of a 53-story building built from all the trash produced by New York City in 24 hours."

 

Exhibition at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn NY

Proteus Gowanus presents the opening reception of the 2nd Paradise exhibition,

featuring the work of 15 artists, designers and architects.

Some of these works examine the inward aspect of Paradise,

evoking states of happiness, exaltation or -- less heavenly --

the struggle to achieve perfect inner harmony.

Others have turned toward the future, imagining urban utopias,

culinary perfection and even the rendering of heaven itself. 

 

Contributors to Paradise 2

Diane Bertolo
Micheline Gingras
Marcia Hillis
Leslie Kerby
Peter Ketcham
Tom Klinkowstein
Patricia McDonough
Lisanne McTernan
Eva Melas
Joseph Motroni
Adine Sagalyn
Erik Schurink
Theo Stewart Stand
Terreform One
Kit Warren 

Digital Art at Google; Rachel Armstrong & Mitchell Joachim

A talk on Living Materials and Architecture from Rachel Armstrong & Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE at the Google building in New York.

see YouTube

Detail Magazine on Terreform ONE

A metropolis is reinvented , Mitchell Joachim and Maria Aiolova, Terreform ONE, Detail magazine

Profile for World Architects

New York Architects and World Architects
Please visit our profile for Terreform ONE + Terrefuge:
http://newyork-architects.com/terreform-one-terrefuge/

American Society of Landscape Architects 2010 Expo in DC

Lecture - Mowing to Growing: Rethinking the American Lawn
Featured Speakers: Maria Aiolova, LEED AP, and Mitchell Joachim, Terreform ONE
http://www.asla.org/2010meeting/edSessionsSun1.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

Terreform ONE in Prague Post

Viewing the present through the future, by Caroline Korsawe

DOX exhibition is part of an international art trend that is looking ahead

"Joachim embraces the future by specializing in dreaming up environmentally sustainable cities. He is part of Terreform ONE, a nonprofit group specializing in such themes."

"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 Brooklyn for the DOX exhibition."
http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/5484-viewing-the-present-through-the-future.html

TerreFarm school successfully completed for 2010

Maria Aiolova, Mitchell Joachim, Christian Hubert and TAs: Marco Castro, Brian Holland
Participants: Orlando C. Quarless, Sara Newey, Tyler Madden, Vaclav Malek, Nancy Kim, Anthony Stahl, izabela karczmarczyk, William Q. Smith, Eva Nemcova, Annabelle Hernandez, Hazem Ahmed, Rebekka Hennig, Alex Sammet, Joanna Pierchala, Annette Williamson, Jennifer Birkeland, Vicki Karlan, Daryl Round, Anne Paillard, Yen Trinh, Tatsui Yuki, Marcus Owens, Monica Hernandez, Lee Youngwhan, Lee Heekyoung, Shim Hoonyong, Kim Minjoo, Choi Songhee, Park Won, Marco Antonio, Castro Cosio

Urbaneering Brooklyn, NY 2110

DOX - Center of Contemporary Art, Prague

THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE - Terreform ONE; Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Melanie Fessel, Dan O’Connor, Celina Yee, Alpna Gupta, Sishir Varghese, Aaron Lim, Greg Mulholland, Derek Ziemer, Thilani Rajarathna, John Nelson, Natalie DeLuca

Urbaneering - Our primary assertion for this future city in Brooklyn is that all necessities are provided inside its accessible physical borders. We have designed an intensified version of Brooklyn that supplies all vital needs for its population. In this city, food, water, air, energy, waste, mobility, and shelter are radically restructured to support life in every form. The strategy includes the replacement of dilapidated structures with vertical agriculture and housing merged with infrastructure. Former streets become snaking arteries of livable spaces embedded with; renewable energy sources, soft cushion based vehicles for mobility, and productive green rooms. The plan uses the former street grid as the foundation for new networks. By reengineering the obsolete streets, we can install radically robust and ecologically active pathways. These operations are not just about a comprehensive model of tomorrow’s city, but an initial platform for discourse. We think the future will necessitate marvelous dwellings coupled with a massive cyclical resource net. The future will happen, how we get there is dependent upon our planned preparation and egalitarian feedback.

Terreform ONE in the Observer

Is this the sustainable city of the future?

Sustainable cities by Rowan Moore. This article appeared on p21 of the The New Review section of the Observer on Sunday 4 July 2010.

TED Talks: Mitchell Joachim

Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! | Video on TED.com

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.

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.

Mitchell Joachim's Eco-City by Nick Kaloterakis