Mitchell Joachim is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design. He is a partner in Terrefuge, a New York-based organization for philanthropic architecture and ecological design. His design of a compact, stackable “city car,” developed with the MIT Smart Cities Group, won the 2007 Time Magazine “Best Invention of the Year.” He was formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, Michael Sorkin Studio, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.

Joachim’s awards include the Moshe Safdie and Associates Research Fellowship and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT. He won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, New York and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car with MIT Smart Cities Group. He was selected by Wired magazine for “The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To”.

Past Events

• !@#$% Traffic From Insects to Interstates

  2009 Festival

  Robert Krulwich guides a unique melding of mathematics, physics, and behavioral science.

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• WALL-E’s World: Designs for an Invisible Footprint

  2009 Festival

  Carl Zimmer hosts leading scientists Mitchell Joachim, Christopher McKay and Ben Schwegler as they explore ingenious strategies for creating a sustainable future.

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• Future Cities Sustainable Solutions, Radical Designs

  2008 Festival

  Urban planner Peter Head, architects Blaine Brownell and Mitchell Joachim, environmentalist Majora Carter, and microbiologist Dickson Despommier laid out radical blueprints and innovative solutions as they imagine housing, feeding, transporting and sustaining city dwellers of the not too distant future.

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