Degrees of Certainty

Janette Kim

This 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

Cosmopolitan Ecologies

Kate Orff

A 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 Park

An 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 Park

Safari 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 Watson

We 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 Kim

This 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 Kim

An 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 Kim

This 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 Kim

This 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 Kim

This 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 Kim

This 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 Kim

Where 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 Kim

What 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 Stoel

In 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 Stoel

We 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 Kim

The 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 Orff

A 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 Orff

NYC Audbon Society’s guidelines to bird-safe building design.

Spring 2007

Dunsink Urban Landscape

Kate Orff

This 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 Kim

The 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 Hawkinson

We 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 Orff

We 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 Kim

This 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 Millrath

This 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 Orff

The focus of this seminar is the dispersed distribution of contemporary land settlement patterns and its relation to open space.

Spring 2003