Signs
Janette Kim, Matthew Slaats, Alice Feng and Eric Rothstein, with Eliza Montgomery, Marianne Koch, Caroline Ellise, John Buonocore, Sydney Talcott, and Meg KellyAn urban signage scheme to be installed along major bridge crossings over the Fall Kill Creek in July 2012, as the first phase of the Fall Kill Plan.
SUMMER 2012-CURRENT
A User’s Guide to the Fall Kill Creek
Janette Kim, Matthew Slaats, Alice Feng and Eric Rothstein, with Eliza Montgomery, Marianne Koch, Caroline Ellis, John Buonocore, Sydney Talcott and Meg KellyA guidebook containing design ideas for residents, policymakers and planners to get involved in the revitalization of the Fall Kill Creek.
Spring 2012
Master Plan
Janette Kim, Matthew Slaats, Alice Feng and Eric Rothstein, with Eliza Montgomery, Marianne Koch, Caroline Ellis, John Buonocore, Sydney Talcott and Meg KellyA Master Plan for transforming sites along the Fall Kill Creek into neighborhood hubs in the City of Poughkeepsie.
SUMMER 2011-CURRENT
Underdome
Janette Kim, Erik CarverUnderdome is an architect’s guide to contending energy agendas. A cross between an architectural handbook and a voter’s guide, the project maps approaches to energy management and performance to examine their implications for public life.
Fall 2010 - CURRENT
Known Unknowns2013
Janette KimKnown Unknowns: Architecture’s Ecological Consciousness investigated the political ecology of climate change through the lens of risk management in architecture and urbanism.
Spring 2013
What Does Green Mean 2
Janette KimThis advanced studio at GSAPP took debate to be the new architectural manifesto.
SPRING 2012
Known Unknowns
Janette KimThis seminar at Columbia GSAPP investigates architecture’s agency in the political ecology of climate change.
Spring 2012
Public Horizon
Janette Kim and Erik CarverWhat next for public space? Public Horizon, August 2011, a panoramic pavilion in lower Manhattan for imagining new civic spaces.
SUMMER 2011
Safari 4: Beijing
Janette Kim, Kate Orff, Glen CummingsSafari 4 is a tour of urban animal life along Beijing’s Number 4 subway line.
Spring 2011-2012
Degrees of Certainty
Janette KimThis design studio focuses on architecture’s potential to manifest and transform ecological relationships amidst ongoing uncertainty within contemporary climate research and environmental activism. (Core One M.Arch)
Fall 2009
Flushing River Canoe Tour
Janette Kim, Ludlow 38, Long Island City Community Boathouse, Lara AlmarceguiA public canoe trip up the Flushing River realized in conjunction with Lara Almarcegui’s project “Guide to the Wastelands of Flushing River.”
Spring 2010
MycoMap
Janette Kim, Strataspore, Sarah Williams (SIDL), Anne Yen, Erica Schapiro-Sakashita, and NOAHA field guide to mushrooms in New York City.
Summer 2010
Mobile Library Unit
Janette Kim, Josh DraperRe-imagining the idea of a reference desk and of what we classically consider the function of a library. The Mobile Library Unit allows participants to exchange their local knowledge and experience with art groups, spaces, or projects for consultation or advice.
Spring 2010
Life Support
Janette Kim, Josh Draper, Josh RamahloThis seminar at GSAPP explores the design and fabrication of aquaponic
structures using vacuforming and rotational molding techniques.
Cosmopolitan Ecologies
Kate OrffA paper tracing the history of New York City’s regional ecology and infrastructure via the transformation of Jamaica Bay.
Summer 2010
Safari 7 Reading Room
G Cummings, J Kim, K Orff, Y Borochov, J Carver, S Choe, E Dzik, L Ekle, R Fitzgerald-Green, S Garcia, K Hotler, S Korgaonkar, J Noguchi, J Pettibone, E Sharp, G Wirth, S ParkAn exhibition at Studio-X, a downtown studio for design and research run by Columbia University GSAPP.
OCT 15 - DEC 31, 2009
Safari 7
Y Borochov, J Carver, S Choe, E Dzik, L Ekle, R Fitzgerald-Green, S Garcia, K Hotler, S Korgaonkar, J Noguchi, J Pettibone, E Sharp, G Wirth, S ParkSafari 7 is a self-guided tour of urban animal life along New York City’s No. 7 subway line.
Summer 2009
The New Zoo
Kate Orff w/ Julia WatsonWe are bringing new thinking to global wildlife conservation. We will map the interrelated phenomena of local formal and informal economies, governance, and wildlife patterns at pilot sites around the globe, and visualize future scenarios for positive change.
Summer 2009
What Does Green Mean?
Janette KimThis studio adopts techniques of debate as a design strategy to question and advance the criteria of ecological design and expand its socio-political reach.
Summer 2009
Crisis in Crisis: Biosphere 2’s Contested Ecologies
Erik Carver and Janette KimAn article that examines the Biosphere 2 project’s origins and afterlives as a way to consider contested theories of ecology, crisis, and response.
Spring 2009
Bargaining Table
Janette KimThis workshop produced tools using Adobe Flash for public debate about ecology and urban development focused on Environmental Impact Statements (EIS).
Spring 2009
Senior Seminar: Urban Ecology
Janette KimThis course examined the built environment as a network of ecosystems by exploring animal habitats in New York City. It asked: how do ecosystems function in the city? How can we evaluate theories of the environment, ecology, and nature today?
Spring 2009
Life Support
Janette KimThis workshop investigated the notion of containment and self-sustenance in contemporary ecological and environmental theories by experimenting with the technique of vacuforming plastic.
Spring 2009
This is Newark
City of Newark‘This Is Newark’ is a public arts initiative created by the Newark Division of Planning and Community Development that will create a series of permanent installations marking points of arrival to the city at train stations, highway off-ramps, bridges, and urban boundaries.
December 2008
Beyond Recreation
Janette KimThis paper explores design and programming strategies for the National Park Services that replaces “recreation” with a model of greater public participation and accountability in the environment.
December 2008
In the Field
Janette KimWhere and how does the environment go public? This studio will focus on the science laboratory as a site in which the environment takes shape, and is shaped.
Fall 2008
Biosphere X
Janette KimWhat does it mean for land use to be ethical? Founded upon the belief that environnmental issues are inherently political, this studio proposed land use strategies by engaging ongoing debates about ethical land use practices.
Summer 2008
New Natures: Visualizing CarboNYC
Kate Orff w/ Elizabeth StoelIn PlaNYC 2030, New York City has set out an ambitious agenda to reduce global warming emissions by more than 30%. What will this new post-Carbon urbanism / city-of-tomorrow look like? The studio will visualize and project scenarios for a self-sustaining NYC with ambition, radical thinking, and a sense of urgency.
Summer 2008
Park Here: Landscapes + Datascapes
Kate Orff w/ Elizabeth StoelWe invented patterns that work in tandem with an idea for the reclamation of this 251-acre site as a new public park, and rethink the idea of “visitors center” relative to new technologies and social networks.
Summer 2007
Common Profit
Janette KimThe focus of this studio is the construction of wilderness amidst the contemporary context of environmental crisis, market-oriented land development, and government regulation.
Summer 2007
Envisioning Gateway
Kate OrffA report & design competition highlighting the importance of the park as a significant regional resource and a national environmental treasure.
Spring 2007
Bird Safe Building Design Guidelines
Kate OrffNYC Audbon Society’s guidelines to bird-safe building design.
Spring 2007
Dunsink Urban Landscape
Kate OrffThis studio will explore concepts of landscape and urbanism through a focus on shaping the future of Dunsink, a 1000 acre study area on the former outskirts of Dublin, Ireland.
Spring 2007
Atmosphere
Janette KimThe objective of this project is to design a weather research facility and domestic quarters for visiting scientists that register and transform the relationship between the inhabitants and their environment.
Fall 2006
Wasteland: Re-Engineering Willets Point
Kate Orff, Laurie HawkinsonWe addressed eco-industrial development ideas alongside issues of waterfront revitalization, wetland functioning, and job creation in the “iron triangle” at Willets Point, Queens.
Fall 2005
Landscape, Infrastructure, Intervention
Kate OrffWe explored how the physical, material, and conceptual understanding of landscape can enrich current forms of architectural and urban design practice, and to introduce landscape thinking into students’ design vocabularies.
Fall 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
Fact Factory
Janette KimThis studio reworked the culture and materials of containment producing a new relationship between scientific production and public reception.
Fall 2005
IWM_NYC: The Garbage Studio so_
Kate Orff, Laurie Hawkinson, Nicholas Themelis, Karsten MillrathThis design studio brought new ideas and a fresh approach to New York’s garbage crisis, focusing on the South Bronx.
Fall 2004
Techniques of Dispersal
Kate OrffThe focus of this seminar is the dispersed distribution of contemporary land settlement patterns and its relation to open space.
Spring 2003