Speakers

Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism.  He is a co-founder of Terreform ONE and Terrefuge, and is a faculty member at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly an architect at Gehry Partners, and Pei Cobb Freed, he has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability at MIT.  He was chosen by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To." Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell as an agent of change in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America." He was selected to be the Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto for 2009-2010.