How do we rebuild entire buildings, cities and communities when they are wiped out? What happens when disaster strikes – like in New Orleans and the World Trade Center? What will 2012 bring and how will we recover?
There will be opportunities to merge the thinking of many schools of thought to develop hybrid designs that understand the integrated solutions offered by science, ecology, geometry, engineering, architecture, urban planning, agriculture… and many others.
Thinking Beyond 2012, futurists such as Mitch Joachim offer solutions for self-sustainable living for city-spaces, even the moon.
This article refers to the 49-minute video “City, Ecology and Mobility” (link follows).
Despite its length, it is captivating. Don’t stop viewing the video when question-time starts after approximately the 30-minute mark. This is where Mitch offers valuable insights into the solutions facing designers and planners struggling with organisations that effectively exist to kill innovation.
Highlights of the video
This video will open your mind up to the possibilities that exist within the brilliant minds of those who live to improve the living conditions of the human race in tandem with Mother Earth. Some of the concepts detailed in the video include:
- Green living in a city such as New York
- Living components in design such as ficus
- Distinguishing between the unique needs of freight and pedestrian traffic
- Scrubbing and cleaning the environment of the effects of air pollution by transportation and energy use
- Alternate energy generation such as photovoltaic cells, natural ventilation, ETFE foil pillows, wind quills and multiple layers of energy generation
- Perpetual, fluid and flexible movement of vehicles and people
- Space saving design in buildings
- Harnessing maximum light via design
- Henry Ford’s early soy-bean vehicle design
- KFC’s self-contained growing and business premises that also houses its employees.
Mitch Joachim is a brilliant human being that speaks with intelligence and logic in this video, supported by amazing imagery.
Some of my favourite images from Mitch Joachim’s video “City, Ecology & Mobility”
Mitch Joachim
Mitch Joachim PhD is co-founder of Terreform - a nonprofit organization for philanthropic architecture, urban and ecological design.
Mitchell earned a PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch.
Columbia University, BPS SUNY at Buffalo with Honors. He is a Co-Founder of Terrefuge and Terreform 1. Currently he is faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability. He won the History Channel/ Infiniti Award for the City of the Future, NY and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was selected by Wired magazine for “The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To“. Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in “The 100 People Who Are Changing America“. [Source: Terreform]
Watch the Video
To watch this amazing video, visit ScribeMedia.org or watch the video on its own page.
Wired Magazine on Mitchell Joachim
The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To
- Parag Khanna: Embrace the Post-American Age
- David Laibson: Tweak Human Behavior to Fix the Economy
- Carolyn Porco: Use Big Robots — and Big Rockets
- Leroy Hood: Look to the Genome to Rebuild Health Care
- Montgomery McFate: Use Anthropology in Military Planning
- Peter Gleick: Deal With the Water Crisis Now
- Jagdish Bhagwati: Keep Free Trade Free
- Ellen Miller: Make Washington More Like the Web
- Ram Shriram: Open Up the Airwaves
- A.T. Ball: Wage Smarter War With Agile Army IT
- Steve Rayner: Take Climate Change Seriously
- Mitchell Joachim: Redesign Cities From Scratch
- Mark Smolinski: Detect Epidemics Before They Start
- Charles Ferguson: Beware of New, Easy-to-Make Nukes
- Robert Dalrymple: Get Ready for Extreme Weather
The Rolling Stones “The 100 People Who Are Changing America” list 2009
For more great coverage of what can be, check out Terraform’s blog.
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so much fo green living is overhyped and over rated and is still way too expensive for mainstream applications….but a lot of people are making a ton of money from it so essentially yes they are going green…LOL thank you.
Love the Lotus Towers. TU!
I look at the photos of these futuristic designs and then turn to look out my own front door – I am not sure where these could be built or by whom (Trump? Dubai?) but they really do not tug at my heartstrings at all …
Cool!
Very cool. Thanks. I want a FAB TREE HAB. Nice.
It is an amazing art for the futrue.
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