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October 30, 2013 by VisionArc

On the occasion of the Innovative City Forum which took place in Tokyo on October 17th, VisionArc partnered up with our friends at The World Economic Forum and Necessary Projects to design a web-based crowd-sourcing tool to help launch the event’s discussions. At the event, members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Data, Design, Innovation, landon brown, toshiko mori, Urbanization, visionarc, visualization, wef

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VisionArc + Archrival, 2012 Venice Biennale

September 10, 2012 by VisionArc

This year, for the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, VisionArc was invited to collaborate with Archrival, 1 of 6 teams exhibiting in the Australian pavilion, on their Arena Calcetto installation. The installation consists of a series of tall timber structures sited amongst the trees in the entry forecourt of the pavilion which house custom fussball tables. […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Archrival, Biennale, Design, Venice, visionarc, visualization

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Aesthetics / Anesthetics

September 5, 2012 by VisionArc

VisionArc was recently featured in a group exhibition entitled Aesthetics / Anesthetics at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. The exhibition included a diverse group of other designers and practitioners in the field(s), all departing from the question below with a nod to a vital institution to contemporary design discourse. (Text from […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Design, drawing, storefront for art and architecture, strategic design, toshiko mori architect, visionarc

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04.12: Re:Think Design Outputs

April 19, 2012 by VisionArc

On April 12, VisionArc participated in a panel discussion organized by the AIANYC New Practices Committee. The event, entitled Re:Think, Design Thinking Outputs was held at the Center for Architecture and brought together individuals from various design Think-Tank groups to reflect on the following statement: “Over the past two decades the prevalence of the design […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: AIA, Center for Architecture, Design, landon brown, strategic design, visionarc

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03.23: ‘Freeboard’ Design Charrette

April 2, 2012 by VisionArc

On March 23rd, VisionArc director Landon Brown contributed to the ‘Freeboard’ design charrette sponsored by the New York City Department of City Planning; AIANY Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee. The day-long event took place at the AIA New York City Center for Architecture. Published in Reports from the Field on March 28th, 2012 Reporting […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: AIA, Center for Architecture, landon brown, toshiko mori architect, visionarc

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VisionArc Brief 2010-2011

December 1, 2011 by VisionArc

Now that 2011 is just about on its way out, we wanted to take a moment to look back on some of our projects, preoccupations and ongoing initiatives- to take stock, as it were- of where VisionArc has been in the last 12 months or so, and where we hope to be going in 2012. […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: BMW, BMW Guggenheim Lab, Challenges, GSD, Guggenheim, Harvard, Japan, landon, landon brown, natural resources, strategic, strategic design, toshiko, toshiko mori, visionarc, wef, world economic forum

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Comfort & Visual Systems: BMW Guggenheim Lab

September 13, 2011 by VisionArc

Earlier this year VisionArc was invited to participate in the BMW Guggenheim Lab in New York City. On September 7th, VisionArc director Landon Brown presented a talk and public workshop entitled Confronting Comfort: Visual Systems. In the talk Landon spoke on how, today, conventional definitions of comfort as an individual measure are being upended by […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: BMW, Guggenheim, Lab, lecture, networks, Research, resilience, risk, social, visionarc

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Frameworks for Systemic Thinking: The Bay of Pasaia

July 25, 2011 by VisionArc

VisionArc was commissioned by the Basque Government agency Bilbao Metropoli-30 to produce an analysis of an urban regeneration plan proposed in the Bay of Pasaia. Currently used for port and industrial activity, the Bay of Pasaia is a unique ecological zone within one of the few natural fijords on the Cantabrian coast. The regeneration is […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Basque Country, Bilbao, Design, ecology, ecosystem, oceans, Pasaia, remediation, strategic, System, systems, urban, urbanism, visionarc, Water

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Teiden Kensaku

July 15, 2011 by VisionArc

In the Spring of 2011 VisionArc partnered with the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design to brainstorm and develop energy monitoring concepts in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Japan is the only developed country in the world where household energy consumption exceeds industrial and business use. In […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: energy, Fukushima, Japan, Mobile, Network, Platform, Research, Resources, System, visionarc, world economic forum

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VisionArc in May issue of ARCHITECT magazine

May 12, 2011 by VisionArc

In the May, 2011 issue of ARCHITECT magazine, VisionArc was profiled in the entrepreneur section. Mimi Zeiger sat down with VisionArc Founder, Toshiko Mori and Director, Landon Brown to discuss our recent work, global challenges and the role of design in assuming unique leadership capabilities. Here’s a link to the article. The original text is […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: architect, article, interview, magazine, mimi zeiger, profile, systems, visionarc

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VisionArc at Bilbao Bizkaia B Awards Design Festival

March 23, 2011 by VisionArc

From March 23rd to the 25th VisionArc will be participating in the first edition of the Bilbao Bizkaia B Awards Design Festival in Bilbao, Spain. Visionarc Founder and Principal Toshiko Mori will be presenting recent VisionArc research and design collaborations and serving as jury member for the Bilbao Bizkaia International and Regional Prize. Projects have […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Conference, Design, GSD, Harvard, toshiko mori, visionarc

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Mare Liberum (‘Free Seas’)

July 19, 2010 by VisionArc

Recently, VisionArc reported on a current United Nations research initiative to develop a set of quantitative and evaluative tools to measure the economic and external values embodied within ecosystems. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is part of a growing conceptual and global policy shift towards more rigorous, coordinated and quantitative standards for ecosystem […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: free seas, oceans, regulation, TEEB, visionarc

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Expanding Oil Sands

July 9, 2010 by VisionArc

Last fall, VisionArc produced a video project entitled Design Blind Spots 2050. In the video we analyzed some of the conflicts connected to oil sands mining- the intensive extraction of hydrocarbon reserves from underneath the Canadian Boreal forest In mainstream media outlets, oil sands mining has drawn relatively scant attention within U.S. This may stem, […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Keystone XL, oil sands, visionarc

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The Ocean Energy Institute

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

VisionArc was commissioned by the Ocean energy Institute to produce a report on the broader potential of its mission and programs.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: maine, ocean energy institute, renewable resources, toshiko mori, vision arc, visionarc, wind energy

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Brooklyn Public Library

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

VisionArc worked with the Brooklyn Public Library to rethink and remap their system of materials circulation in its Central Branch.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: brooklyn public library, circulation, diagrams, mapping, toshiko mori, vision arc, visionarc

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World Economic Forum: Re-map

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

The World Economic Forum sought VisionArc to design a plan encouraging new connections between Global Agenda Councils.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: diagrams, mapping, re-map, toshiko mori, vision arc, visionarc, wef, world economic forum

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‘Fracking’ and the Disappearing Elsewhere

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

Next week, on June 21st, HBO will air the documentary “Gasland”, the award winning documentary directed by Josh Fox. In the film, Fox sets out across the country to document the recent boom in the practice of gas drilling called hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ for short. The process of fracking involves drilling deep, horizontal wells […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: debra anderson, fracking, gas land, gasland, hbo, hydraulic fracturing, split estate, visionarc

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Design Blind Spots 2050

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

VisionArc was commissioned by the DesignSingapore Council to produce a research, video, exhibition and workshop presentation.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: design blind spots, design singapore, visionarc

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Welcome to Visionarc.org

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

A couple of months ago we passed the one year mark since we began operating out of our New York office as VisionArc. We thought it was about the right time to create an online presence for ourselves. Welcome to VisionArc.org. The idea is that this will become a place to communicate our ongoing work […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Projects, toshiko mori, visionarc, welcome

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About

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

Launched in 2009, VisionArc is a think tank dedicated to exploring the role of design within complex social and environmental issues. We create processes and methodologies which connect multiple silos of expertise where systemic challenges demand the design of holistic outlook and action. We deliver design skills by coordinating four key strengths: Research Research is […]

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