James von Klemperer, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Wednesday, October 7
7:00 p.m.
Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway
Working in collaboration with Cisco Systems, Kohn Pedersen Fox is currently master-planning two new cities–New Songdo City, South Korea and Meixi Lake, Hunan Province, China–in which all information systems–residential, medical, business–will be linked. Organized around eight “tracks” within a city, the systems will be [...]
Sentient City Case Studies: New Songdo City and Meixi Lake
Too Smart City
Team Members:
JooYoun Paek, David Jimison | Engineers: Daniel Bauen, Aaron Gilbert, Bill Washabaugh
Too Smart City is a set of three street furniture pieces that come to life with embedded intelligence and robotic systems. The Smart Bench is a gorgeous two-person seater that recognizes vagrancy and is capable of lifting people up and dumping them [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Breakout!
Team Members:
Anthony Townsend (Institute for the Future), Georgia Borden, Amanda Kross, Jung Hoon Kim, Antonina Simeti (DEGW), Dana Spiegel (NYCwireless), Laura Forlano (Parsons The New School for Design), Tony Bacigalupo (New Work City), Sean Savage (PariSoMa), Elysse Preposi (Sarah Lawrence College)
Breakout! is a festival of work in the city, that explores the dynamic possibilities of [...]
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 [...]