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MEGACITIES AND META-CITIES @ STUDIO-X NY
Megacities and Meta-Cities: Sustainable Models for Growing and Shrinking Territories was an all-day symposium held at Studio-X New York on February 23rd, 2012. Organized by Antonella Contin, David Grahame Shane and Giovanni Santamaria, the symposium focused on global urban design studies in local school. Many of the local schools and other educational institutions were represented, including Harvard GSD, NJIT, NYIT and Parsons, as well as the Politecnico di Milano (full schedule here).
Lee Altman and Emily Weidenhof discussed the pedagogy behind 3 years of the Columbia GSAPP Fall Semester studio coordinated by Prof. Mojdeh Baratloo.
MAYORS INSTITUTE ON CITY DESIGN @ COLUMBIA GSAPP
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design brings together presiding Mayors with experts of architecture and urban fields to discuss challenges that their cities face, in a workshop environment.
The 2011 East conference was held at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture, Planning and Preservation, coordinated and curated by Mojdeh Baratloo with Lee Altman, Travis Bunt, Dimitra Gavrilaki and Setareh Fadaee; in collaboration with Regional Plan Association.
The Mayors’ Institute on City Design is a leadership initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the American Architectural Foundation and the United States Conference of Mayors.
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The full report from the event can be purchased on Lulu.
WATER-CENTRIC OPEN BAG @ OPEN PLANS
OpenPlans is a 501(c)3 that uses technology to change the way that cities and citizens interact. They believe that open source, open data, and sustainable mobility options can improve millions of lives; and are generally very nice people.
On November 16th 2011 Lee Altman gave an Open Bag talk at Open Plans, discussing the Operative Hydrosensus project and Mary Miss’ FLOW. There was falafel.
Also present were the awesome folks of Vizzuality.
Here is what Anthony Denaro blogged about the talk.
FLOW (CAN YOU SEE THE RIVER?) by MARY MISS in INDIANAPOLIS, IN
FLOW is a city-wide public art project that reveals how the ordinary activities of citizens affect the health and future of the White River water system. Designed by visual artist Mary Miss in collaboration with many civic, art, and education organizations in Indianapolis, FLOW uses physical installation, an audio guide and a web app to explore and reveal the city’s water systems.
Project management (and some design work) by Lee Altman at Mary Miss Studio
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Project website: www.flowcanyouseetheriver.org
IN THE WORKS: OCEAN HEALTH INDEX
Maps and Data Viz designed by yours truly for @radical.media will be featured as part of the Ocean Health Index – a “Dow Jones” for the oceans, designed to evaluate different criteria that influence the health of the oceans over time.
GRASSROOTS MAPPING BEIJING
Grassroots Mapping was developed by Jeff Warren of the MIT Media Lab‘s Center for Future Civic Media, as a series of participatory mapping projects involving communities in cartographic dispute.
On October 20th, we brought Grassroots Mapping to Beijing, working with architecture students from the University of Hong Kong who are studying Beijing’s 2nd ring road.
HYDROSENSUS 2.0
The Operative HydroSensus (OHS) project is designed to establish a new relationship between urban residents and their public waters. The OHS is a floating platform that combines bio-mimicry components to improve water quality with sensory technology that measures improvement and broadcasts it on multiple channels. Through a framework of communication and education the OHS will create a way for users to ‘talk to the river’ – receiving immediate information and understanding the effects that changes in the built environment such as catchment basins and green roofs can have on the health of the urban ecosystem.
The HydroSensus project is developed in collaboration with Jenny Chen-Cheng Chou.
REGIONAL DISCUSSION – URBAN DESIGN STUDIOS
A series of diagrams breaking down the pedagogical process of Columbia GSAPP MSc. in Architecture and Urban Design Studio: Fall Semesters ‘07, ‘08, ‘09
Studio Coordinator: Prof. Mojdeh Baratloo
NEXT GENERATION POD
Temp:: has collaborated with Jenny Chou to submit a new and improved version of the floating-remediating-communicating pod to the Next Generation design competition organized by Metropolis Magazine.
The pod offers a new Water User Interface (WUI) for the urban environment, operating in two parallel landscapes – an event landscape and a virtual landscape.
:: gallery coming soon ::
i-SHED
The i-SHED was submitted to the urbanShed International Design Competition organized by The New York City Buildings Department, AIA New York Chapter and additional partners. The competition called for a new design for the standard NYC construction shed.
A new urban typology, the i-SHED enriches the pedestrian experience. It encourages us to inhabit a previously undesirable space by providing light, water, and a growing range of amenities on the go.
The i-SHED was designed in collaboration with Sylvie Blondeau, Asli Erdem and Chi Ying Shen.
