Category: Design
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Designing Affordability Exhibition Travels to Sydney
Designing Affordability, an exhibition on innovative approaches to efficient design and affordability opened in Sydney Australia on October 6, 2016 and ran through November of 2016 at Tin Sheds Gallery. With generous support from Urban Growth NSW and the University of Sydney the exhibition which debuted at the Center for…
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Work of Team PaD highlighted in Van Alen / NORA Future Ground report
Led by James Dart of the New Orleans-based design firm DARCH with Deborah Gans, LoriAnn Girvan, and Marc Norman, Team PaD explored policy as a design tool, considering alternative property, development, legal, and fiscal structures to reconsider the city’s established policies in the context of its collective post-Katrina capital of…
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What is the Future of Impact Design Education?
Impact Design Hub asks about the future of education in a new feature series. The question? What is the future of impact design education? Or, more specifically, what will the education of impact designers look like ten years from now, in the year 2025 … Click here to see the responses…
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Oculus Fall 2015 Home Game: Winning with Housing
I am honored to be included in the Fall Issue of Oculus Magazine, a publication of the AIA New York Chapter. The issue, ” Home Game: Winning with Housing,” focuses specifically on housing that supports a population needed for the city to grow economically, culturally, sustainably – and equitably. A big…
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Getting Out of a Spot: Deployed Technologies and Revamped Codes for a Thriving Twenty-First-Century City
This article in a special issue of the Journal of Urban History examines ways to rethink auto-centric planning policies and deploy technology to increase density in the American city. click link for the abstract and full article. The issue, Reinventing the American Post-Industrial City includes articles by 12 authors and is Edited…
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Changing Places MIT Media Lab Creates City Office
City Office is a project that arose out of the MIT Media Lab, Changing Places Group. Project leads were Kent Larson with Hasier Larrea, Luis Alonso and Carlos Rubio. The project utilized architectural robotics to enable a hyper-efficient, dynamically reconfigurable co-working space that accommodates a wide range of activities in a…
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See the Urban Rest Stop Video Click Below
The Urban Rest Stop Exhibition in Syracuse, NY from Marc Norman on Vimeo. AFOAM’s “Parting” Selected as winning entry for Urban Rest Stop UPSTATE:, a center for design, research, and real estate at Syracuse University School of Architecture announced AFOAM as the winners of the Urban Rest Stop Design Competition…
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UPSTATE Produces an Alternative for the Almond Corridor
It has been stated that the decision on Interstate 81 represents the one of the biggest issues for the Syracuse region in 40 years. At this stage in the process the New York State Department of Transportation has revealed 16 different proposals which will now be analyzed. Options encompass tunnels,…
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UPSTATE and APTUM Explore Housing Typologies
In consultation with Habitat for Humanity Syracuse and funding partners, materials providers and stakeholders UPSTATE has tasked APTUM Design with thinking about the innovative use of insulating concrete products to create energy efficient, attractive and affordable housing in Upstate New York communities. the hope is to build at least two…
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UPSTATE teams with Architecture, Engineering and Syracuse Parks on Field Houses
The field house renovation at Skiddy Park considers the field house as an opportunity to enhance the neighborhood, by providing a centralized space to activate. The project also engages the breadth site, providing opportunities to expand and to grow with the community. The scheme is optimized in order to be…