Weltstadt Newspaper: New York | "Cities and Citizenship"

Global Design NYU would like to thank and congratulate all who were in involved in the "Cities and Citizenship" three-day symposium event.


The 5th issue of the Weltstadt Newspaper series discusses the idea of the city in relation to its citizens. The articles brilliantly cover and explore the big themes in the "Cities and Citizenship" event-- themes that involve design, architecture, sociology, urbanism, ecology  and identity.


Read the articles to learn what scholars have to say about this topic and see photographs from each of the terrific events.


___________________________




The Weltstadt Newspaper Website


Articles from "Cities and Citizenship"


The work by Global Design NYU is on page 3.

GDNYU’s Cities and Citizenship Conference: Citizenship and Democracy in the “Green City”

By Carly A. Krakow

            What is the relationship between nature and the city? How are the bounds between a democratic, open-access approach to city development and an urban planning methodology that emphasizes expertise and extensive training negotiated? Is it possible to design spaces as realms of free speech and activism, or is the idea of “designed democracy” antithetical to spontaneous and genuine demonstrations of citizenship?

            These are just a few of the questions addressed at March 14^th’s Cities and Citizenship conference, co-organized by Global Design NYU and Parsons the New School for Design as part of the Goethe-Institut’s Weltstadt project. The conference engaged with the ways in which the construction of the city is inextricably linked to the role of the citizen. Drawing on historical understandings of how urban centers have been both geographically and socially delimited, the conference sought to inspire an expanded understanding of the citizen’s role in shaping the 21^st century “green city.”

            The panels, moderated by GDNYU co-directors Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, and Mitchell Joachim, and Ioanna Theocharopoulou of Parsons, addressed topics including the role of nature in the built environment; the relationship between designers, architects, activists, and social scientists during the era of globalization; the need for increased infrastructural strength in New York City in the age of global warming; and the function of building codes in the rapidly evolving urban environment. Panelists included Vyjayanthi Rao, Lynette Widder, Tyler Volk, Colin Jerolmack, Eric Sanderson, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Mariana Mogilevich, Eric Klinenberg, Stephen Duncombe, Andreas Kalyvas, Susanne Schindler, Victoria Marshall, and Susannah Drake.

            Stay tuned for an expanded version of our reflections on the conference, forthcoming in the Weltstadt newspaper!!!

________________________________________________

VISIT our website (gdnyu.com) and Facebook page (Global Design NYU) for more photographs from Cities and Citizenship!
FOLLOW US to stay updated on international design and architecture news!

HUGE EVENT! >>> "CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP"

Cities and Citizenship is a three-day symposium that explores how the design of cities can promote a more engaged citizenry. The symposium will engage leading designers, architects, landscape architects, planners, urbanists, historians, and scientists.


A pervasive absence of decisive political action on climate change, despite a rich trove of knowledge about its potentially dangerous consequences since at least the 1970s, combined with the failure of successive global summits to reach adequate resolution affects us all. Where do design and environmentalism cross over to make an impact on these issues? Along with the scientific aspects of ecological design, we are interested to explore the intersection between design and the social sciences at large by explicating the concept of “city” and “citizen” in parallel. What is the relationship between city making and citizenship? Can design provide new and richer tools for strengthening citizenship and advancing human rights and responsibilities?


Cities and Citizenship is co-sponsored by the Goethe-Institut New York, Parsons The New School for Design, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Global Design NYU.


Cities and Citizenship is organized by Alissa Burmeister from the Goethe-Institut New York, Ioanna Theocharopoulou from Parsons The New School for Design, Peder Anker, Louise Harpman, Mitchell Joachim, from Global Design NYU at Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, and is part of the Goethe-Institut's international Weltstadt: Who Creates the City? initiative. 

Cities and Citizenship | FILM SCREENING AND OPENING PARTY
The Domino Effect (2012), a documentary film by Daniel Phelps, Megan Sperry, and Brian Paul
Thursday, March 13th, from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building 

5 E. 3rd Street (at Bowery)

Cities and Citizenship | CONFERENCE

Friday, March 14th, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts_1 Washington Place

Cities and Citizenship | WORKSHOPS  

Saturday, March 15th, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Goethe Institut Wyoming Building

5 E. 3rd Street (at Bowery)

EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 

Seating is limited. Please register with wyomingbuilding@newyork.goethe.org by March 12th.

Conference participants include: Peder Anker, [History of Science, Gallatin School, NYU], Gianpaolo Baiocchi [Sociology, Director of Civic Engagement, Gallatin School, NYU], Susannah Drake [Landscape Architect, dlandstudio], Stephen Duncombe [Sociology, Gallatin School, NYU], Louise Harpman [Architecture, Gallatin School, NYU], Matthias Hollwich [Architect +  Co-founder, HWKN], Natalie Jeremijenko [Fine Art + Environmental Studies, NYU], Colin Jerolmack [Environmental Studies + Sociology, NYU], Mitchell Joachim [Architecture, Gallatin School, NYU], Eric Klinenberg [Sociology, NYU], Victoria Marshall [Landscape + Urban Designer, Parsons], Brian McGrath [Architecture, Dean, School of Constructed Environments Parsons], Miodrag Mitrasinovic [Architecture + Urbanism, New School], Mariana Mogilevich [Architecture + Metropolitan Studies, NYU], Vyjayanthi Rao [Anthropology, New School], Eric Sanderson [Senior Conservation Ecologist at WCS], Susanne Schindler [Architecture, New School, Candide Journal],Ioanna Theocharopoulou [Architectural History, Parsons], Tyler Volk [Biology + Environmental Studies, NYU], Lynnette Widder [Earth Institute, Columbia University].
 

Workshop presenters:  

Zoning and Affordable Housing- Mark Torrey

Communication and Community Engagement- Megan Sperry

Design for an Aging Population- Matthias Hollwich

Midtown and MoMA- Mitchell Joachim, Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Ioanna Theocharopoulou

 

VISIT gdnyu.com FOR MORE INFORMATION and FULL SCHEDULE 

SPOTLIGHT: NEW BOOK by MITCHELL JOACHIM, "Super Cells: Building with Biology"

Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design, architecture and urbanism.  He is a founding Co-President of Terreform ONE in 2006.  He earned a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MAUD Harvard University, M.Arch. Columbia University.  Mitchell is an Associate Professor at NYU and EGS (European Graduate School).  He previously taught at Columbia University, Syracuse University, Parsons, Washington University, and the Frank Gehry Chair at University of Toronto. He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed. He has been awarded fellowships at TED 2010, Moshe Safdie Assoc., and Martin Society for Sustainability at MIT. He won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanityy, the History Channel and Infiniti Excellence Award for City of the Future, Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities and a Bronze Medal at iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) for Gen2Seat.  His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published.  He was chosen 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".  In 2009 he was interviewed on the Colbert Report. Popular Science magazine has featured his work as a visionary for “The Future of the Environment” in 2010.  Mitchell was the Winner of the Victor Papanek Social Design Award sponsored by the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austrian Cultural Forum, and Museum of Arts and Design in 2011.  Dwell magazine featured Mitchell as one of "The NOW 99" in 2012.

 

"Super Cells: Building with Biology" (TED Books) gives an "eye-popping tour of the new biological frontier, Nina Tandon and Mitchell Joachim 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. Tandon and Joachim, daring inventors in their own right, contend that we’re entering a new technological era, one in which we can create smarter technologies by making cells our partners in design. And they confront the thorny questions that come with playing with the power of life."

 



Mitchell Joachim is a founding member of Global Design NYU, and is one of the innovative designers featured in our forthcoming BOOK!

Stay up-to-date on international news regarding sustainable architecture!

Visit gdnyu.com, like Global Design NYU on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@gdnyu).

________________________________

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ICXN3VA/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_g5n.sb0S6WD3Z
http://www.mitchelljoachim.com/

SPOTLIGHT: Ordinary Studio | "ORDINARY DISPATCH #1"

"Ordinary Ltd, an East London-based studio primarily focused on creative investigations
at the intersection of architecture, design, material sciences and theory." Ordinary was founded by Magnus Larsson and Alex Kaiser. Larsson has a BA (hons) from Oxford. He started off as a journalist and later attended the Architectural Association where he proposed "Dune," a 6,000km long habitable anti-desertification wall made of biologically solidified bacterial sandstone." Kaiser too has a BA (hons) from Oxford. He began his career in design and followed a similar route, attending the Architectural Association in London.

Ordinary Dispatch #1 is a "communiqué keeping our nearest and dearest updated on the latest news from Ordinary Ltd."

Here's a PREVIEW of what it FEATURES:

Crystal City for Selfridges, Festival of Imagination

"Curated by Chris Hatherill (super/collider), the Growing the Future exhibition and series of workshops envisage a future made from truly renewable materials. With Ordinary co-founder Alex Kaiser leading the design team, our contribution is Crystal City, a glittering metropolis made from supersaturated crystal solutions, created in a four-week collaboration with visitors to Selfridges."

>>> http://ordinarystudio.com/Crystal-City

LOG: F2F Phase Finished

"Our F2F (file-to-factory) groundscraper – a building at the scale of a city – responds and adjusts to a series of site conditions in order to establish optimal conditions for its gridshell structure to support multi-storey living units that are “slotted” into the main framework."

>>> http://ordinarystudio.com/File-to-Factory-2-0 

Invincible Cities for the Materiomic Age

"As is our wont, our latest scientific chapter was just published in yet another book with a snappy title."

>>> http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-37661-0_4

FULL Dispatch #1:

>>>http://us3.campaignarchive2.com/u=58c592238da33a9ee54808954&id=7eb0e018bc&e=c2fe860fc9

____________________________________

 

Ordinary is one of the masterly design firms featured in our forthcoming BOOK!

 

Stay up-to-date on international news regarding sustainable architecture!

Visit gdnyu.com, like Global Design NYU on Facebook and follow us on Twitter (@gdnyu).

 

____________________________________

 

http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=58c592238da33a9ee54808954&id=7eb0e018bc&e=c2fe860fc9

http://ordinarystudio.com/About

 

Larsson, Magnus, and Alex Kaiser. " Ordinary Dispatch #1." Ordinary. Ordinary Studio, Feb. 2014. Web. 07 Feb. 2014.