Gretchen Bakke [ 5 JUN 2018 | Urban Design | 35:06 ] The Goethe-Institut and Speculative Life Cluster (Concordia University) Conference on Automated Environments at the Canadian Centre for Architecture on November 1, 2017. Gretchen Bach holds a PhD from
Whisper Village
Whisper Valley (http://www.whispervalleyaustin.com/), a community located just outside of Austin, Texas that is currently under construction. Every home will have an array of solar panels, spray foam insulation, and geothermal heating and cooling. Cost: $200,000 and Up Assistance with this
Musk vs Gary
Elon Musk [ 3 MAY 2017 | Urban Design | 40:50 ] Chris Anderson: In the next half hour or so, we’re going to spend some time exploring your vision for what an exciting future might look like, which I
Nano Liquid Batteries
John Katsoudas [ 21 DEC 2016 | Energy Security ] We all know that burning gasoline for transportation contributes significantly to an oncoming global calamity – climate change. We also know that switching to electric vehicles – or EVs –
Backyard Forestry
Shubhendu Sharma [ 22 AUG 2016 | Urban Design | 9:12 ] This is a man-made forest. It can spread over acres and acres of area, or it could fit in a small space — as small as your house
Sustainable Urbanization
Parag Khanna [ 27 APR 2016 | Urban Design | 20:34 ] I want you to reimagine how life is organized on earth. Think of the planet like a human body that we inhabit. The skeleton is the transportation
Shaping Neighborhoods
Theaster Gates [ 26 MAR 2015 | Urban Design ] I’m a potter, which seems like a fairly humble vocation. I know a lot about pots. I’ve spent about 15 years making them. One of the things that really excites
Rebuilding Detroit
Toni Griffin [ 16 DEC 2013 | Urban Design ] By 2010, Detroit had become the poster child for an American city in crisis. There was a housing collapse, an auto industry collapse, and the population had plummeted by 25
Microgrids
Gretchen Bakke [ 23 May 2013 | Urban Design | 12:37 ] Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design, McGill University. Since about 2008 there has been a groundswell of intervention in the workings of what we now call
Creating Heat
Theaster Gates [ 6 MAR 2013 | Urban Design ] Good morning everybody. How you all doing? How many artists do we have out in the audience? Right on! Right on! How many people want to change the world? Right