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LEAP Dialogues

May 3, 2016 by VisionArc

In 2016 VisionArc Director, Landon Brown, was featured in the publication LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways for Designers in Social Innovation, published by Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design. LEAP Dialogues illustrates how the role of design and designers in society and the marketplace is changing. Why these changes are happening, what skills are needed to […]

Categories: All • Tags: careers, Design, impact, impactdesign, Innovation, landon brown, LEAPDialogues, socialimpact, socialinnovation, strategic design, toshiko mori

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PARK: 96 Acres

September 18, 2015 by VisionArc

PARK was a large-scale data visualization, public art, and radio broadcast event produced as a collaboration between VisionArc Director, Landon Brown and Chicago-based art and community activist project 96 Acres. It was presented on August 15th, 2015 at the Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois. Located on Chicago’s west side, The Cook County Jail is […]

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Librariness: When a Branch Becomes the Root

January 12, 2015 by VisionArc

Please visit Librariness.com for the full project proposal Throughout the last century New York City’s public libraries have functioned as a hinge point for open access to information and the front door to some of the city’s most critical civic services. Yet as the 21st century continues to become the bottleneck for the entangled challenges […]

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Re-envisioning Branch Libraries

August 7, 2014 by VisionArc

Over the course of the next few months VisionArc will be working with a collaborative team called UNION to study the systems, challenges and opportunities for New York City’s branch libraries. Read more about the study from the Architectural League below as well as the other teams selected for this exciting study here. Lastly, make […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: architectural league, Architecture, center for urban futures, cuf, landon brown, libraries, new york city lpublic library, strategic design, toshiko mori

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Sur Center for Maritime Futures

August 6, 2014 by VisionArc

Oman’s maritime heritage stretches back more the 6,500 years. Its strategic position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, along with early advances in boat building, navigation and trade allowed it to emerge as one of the pioneering nations in seafaring. Today this heritage continues through the country’s active container port infrastructure, competitive sailing culture, […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Architecture, landon brown, oceans, Oman, Sailing, strategic design, toshiko mori

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yourdesignthinking.com

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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Après-ski (After Skiing and Beyond)

October 4, 2013 by VisionArc

Launched early 2014 in the Swiss alpine village of Les Diablerets, the Après-ski platform was developed in conjunction with the eco.Villages initiative and in collaboration with stakeholders from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Ecos, and Liebreich Foundation. “eco.villages focuses on finding a sustainable future for Switzerland’s mountain villages – and by extension for rural communities around […]

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Community Visioning

September 20, 2013 by VisionArc

The Community Visioning installation was installed in August, 2013 at the Poe Park Visitor Center in the borough of the Bronx, New York City. The installation was designed to provide members of the Poe Park area community and beyond, an opportunity to a weigh in on what’s working in their community, what isn’t, and what […]

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Eco.Villages Congress 2013

September 16, 2013 by VisionArc

During late August 2013, VisionArc Founder, Toshiko Mori, and Director, Landon Brown, were invited to the Swiss alpine village of Les Diablerets to participate in the eco.villages 2013 Congress. From the organizers: “eco.villages focuses on finding a sustainable future for Switzerland’s mountain villages – and by extension for rural communities around the world – with […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Design, ecological, landon brown, strategic design, Sustainability, switzerland, System, toshiko

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AR 130: Ultradisciplinary Futures

September 16, 2013 by VisionArc

No doubt inspired by the success of their collaborative Arena Calcetto installation at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, our friends Claire McCaughan & Lucy Humphrey from Archrival put together this piece “Ultridisciplinary Futures” featuring VisionArc and others for issue 130 of Architecture Review Asia Pacific. As it describes, the piece seeks to offer profiles of […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Architecture, Archrival, Biennale, Design, landon brown, strategic design, systems, toshiko mori, Venice

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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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Micro-Community Infrastructures, Helsinki

September 5, 2012 by VisionArc

At the end of May VisionArc director Landon Brown along with principal, Toshiko Mori traveled to Helsinki to sit down with a group of students from the Creative Sustainability program at Aalto University to discuss the notion of Community Micro-infrastructures and systems in their city. Over the course of the last year VisionArc has trained […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Community, Design, Infrastructure, strategic design

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Visualized: WEF Design Council

May 18, 2012 by VisionArc

The World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils comprises 88 separate issue and region focused working groups. These groups bring together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders to develop and implement solutions to big picture challenges ranging from climate change to employment. Recently, the Global Agenda Council on Design and Innovation asked VisionArc […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Design, mapping, visualization, wef, world economic forum

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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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Design and Global Challenges

February 25, 2011 by VisionArc

In October, 2010 VisionArc collaborated with the World Economic Forum and Harvard University Graduate School of Design on a prototype for extending the Forums global dialogue format into the realm of design education and research. For the World Economic Forum at Harvard: Design and Global Challenges, a day-long event hosted within the Graduate School of […]

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Collaboration, global agenda councils, GSD, Harvard, Workshop, world economic forum

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Why Design Practice?

February 24, 2011 by VisionArc

When the concept for VisionArc was developed in 2009 we immediately focused on the ambition to locate design opportunities in areas in need of systemic change. Since then we’ve been fortunate to have had opportunities to work on globally relevant challenges where this ambition could be realized through formal collaborations and partnerships. At the same […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Design, Fry, Practice, Sustainability, Tony

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Landscapes of Extraction

January 24, 2011 by VisionArc

On January 20th The Cooper Union in New York City opened an exhibition of the work of J. Henry Fair entitled Landscapes of Extraction: The Collateral Damage of the Fossil Fuels Industries. Presented by The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design, and the Irwin S. Chan School of Architecture, the large-scale, color photographs, accompanied by […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: energy, environmental crisis, mining, oil sands

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Design Blind Spots 2050 at Harvard

October 11, 2010 by VisionArc

On October 6th the Harvard Graduate School of Design will present an installation of the VisionArc’s Design Blind Spots 2050. Commissioned last year by the DesignSingapore Council as an original research project, video production, exhibition, lecture and workshop, it was previously shown at the 2009 ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore. Design Blind Spots 2050 […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: design blind spots, GSD, Harvard, installation

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Design and Global Challenges

October 11, 2010 by VisionArc

On Thursday October 14th the World Economic Forum will extend its format of global dialogue to Harvard University. Representing the first time that a structured, in-depth World Economic Forum dialogue will take place on campus, this joint program will be held on October 14, 2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As its motto states, the Forum is […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: Challenges, Conference, Council, Economic, Forum, Global, GSD, Harvard, World

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Rebounding

August 31, 2010 by VisionArc

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2010 recently earned the distinction of having the hottest combined global land and ocean temperatures for the first half of the year since record keeping began in 1880. In New York City, where VisionArc’s office is based, the 2010 summer is finishing up as one of […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: climate change, efficiency, electricity, energy, green economy, green technology, paradox, rebound, temperature, weather

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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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Eco-nomics

June 25, 2010 by VisionArc

The ongoing financial crisis has made abundantly clear the fact that we are connected by a highly complex system of economic and human capital. As this system has fallen into crisis in the past few years, we have seen the focus turn to the mechanisms and institutions responsible for regulating its health and those whose […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: coral reef, economics, ecosystem, environmental crisis, oceans

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Water Guide

June 24, 2010 by VisionArc

Water Guide is an ongoing research project that is developing a dynamic conceptual framework by which to evaluate the 21st century water cycle.

Categories: All, Projects • Tags: Guide, Water

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Another Spill 5 Decades in the Making

June 21, 2010 by VisionArc

As the real-time disaster occurring in the Gulf of Mexico spills into its 63rd day, the New York Times recently reported from the Niger River Delta, a wetland region in southern Nigeria where oil spill disasters of comparable scale have been unfolding for nearly five decades. At fault is a precarious and uncertain combination of […]

Categories: All, Journal • Tags: disaster, Niger River Delta, nigeria, oil spill

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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.

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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 […]

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