ONE LAB 2012. FUTURE CITIES.

The program is open to all college level students and post graduate professionals who are interested in new means of design inquiry actively using the tools of technology and science.

Studio. Four weeks  of intense exploration of the future of the city. Using New York as a laboratory, the studio will rethink what is salubrious about the city, in both its forms and its life. It will base the investigations on one illuminating hypothesis: in the future New York will grow to be self-sufficient in its critical necessities. The studio will be offered in two levels - one for professional designers and students enrolled in professional schools or departments of design; one for students and individuals of various experience and background that want to be introduced to the field of extreme design.

Lectures. Twenty TED style talks given by world renown architects, engineers, biologists, ecologists, industrial designers, physicists and artists offering radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of future cities.

Workshops. In four workshops the participants will learn the processes of biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning), growing materials, grafting trees and plants, scripting and computational modeling for controlled growth.

Date: From July 9th to Aug 3rd, 2012.

Venue: New York School for Design and Science. Brooklyn, New York.