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