Friday, September 18
12:30 P.M.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
For many of us these days, “home” is an idea constructed from several places–we live in social environments and neighborhoods composed of networked fragments that bridge huge geographical distances. Usman Haque will talk about such architectural issues with specific reference to his project “Natural Fuse.”
Lunchtime Project Presentation: Natural Fuse
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Trash Track
Friday, October 2
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Members of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab will discuss the extensive research underlying their project, as well as initial observations gleaned from the accumulated data.
Happy Hour Project Presentation: Amphibious Architecture
Friday, October 16
7:00 p.m.
The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue
Natalie Jeremijenko, David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang will talk about the interconnected ecosystems of land and water, and the potential overlap between social networks of fish, people, and buildings.
Amphibious Architecture
Team Members:
The Living Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Directors David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang) and Natalie Jeremijenko, Environmental Health Clinic at New York University
Amphibious Architecture submerges ubiquitous computing into the water—that 90% of the Earth’s inhabitable volume that envelops New York City but remains under-explored and under-engaged. Two [...]
Natural Fuse
Team members:
Usman Haque, creative director, Nitipak ‘Dot’ Samsen, designer, Ai Hasegawa, designer, Cesar Harada, designer, Barbara Jasinowicz, producer.
“Natural Fuse” harnesses the carbon-sinking capabilities of plants to create a city-wide network of devices that act both as electricity outlets and as a shared resource that offsets CO2 generated in the production of that electricity.
These Natural Fuses [...]
Trash Track
Team Members:
SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT | Carlo Ratti: Director, Assaf Biderman: Associate Director, Rex Britter: Advisor, Stephen Miles: Advisor, Kristian Kloeckl Project Leader, Musstanser Tinauli, E Roon Kang, Alan Anderson, Avid Boustani, Natalia Duque Ciceri, Lorenzo Davolli, Samantha Earl, Lewis Girod, Sarabjit Kaur, Armin Linke, Eugenio Morello, Sarah Neilson, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Jill Passano, Renato [...]
Curatorial Statement
“When it is raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important than the rain, in fact the weather has probably more to do with the pulsation of the Living City at that given moment.” – Peter Cook
One could argue that this provocation by Peter Cook, published in 1963 in the catalogue for the Living City exhibition [...]