ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mitchell Joachim - Architect, designer
Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim.

Why you should listen

Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a co-founder of Terreform ONE and Terrefuge, and is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly he was an architect at Gehry Partners and Pei Cobb Freed, and he has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship.

Joachim won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine's "Best Invention of the Year 2007" for his Compacted Car with MIT's Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by Wired for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To."

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Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

Mitchell Joachim: Byg ikke dit hjem, gro det!

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TED medlem og bydesigner Mitchell Joachim præsenterer hans vision for bæredygtig, organisk arkitektur: miljøvenlige boliger groet af planter og -- vent og se -- kød.
- Architect, designer
Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim. Full bio

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Why growdyrke homeshjem? Because we can.
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Hvorfor gro vores hjem? Fordi vi kan.
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Right now, AmericaAmerika is in an unremittingutrættelige statestat of traumatraumer.
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Lige nu er Amerika i et konstant stadie af trauma.
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And there's a causeårsag for that, all right.
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Og det er der en grund til.
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We'veVi har got McPeopleMcPeople, McCarsMcCars, McHousesMcHouses.
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Vi har McMennesker, McBiler, McHuse.
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As an architectarkitekt, I have to confrontkonfrontere something like this.
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Som arkitekt skal jeg konfrontere disse ting.
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So what's a technologyteknologi that will allowgive lov til us
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Så hvilken teknologi vil tillade os
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to make ginormousGinormous houseshuse?
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at lave enorme huse?
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Well, it's been around for 2,500 yearsflere år.
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Den har eksisteret i 2.500 år.
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It's calledhedder pleachingpleaching, or graftingpodning treestræer togethersammen,
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Det kaldes fletning, eller vokse træer sammen,
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or graftingpodning inosculateinosculate matterstof into one contiguoussammenhængende, vascularvaskulær systemsystem.
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eller binde materialer sammen til et sammenhængende, vaskulært system.
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And we do something differentforskellige
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Og vi gør noget anderledes
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than what we did in the pastforbi;
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end hvad vi har gjort tidligere.
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we addtilføje kindvenlig of a modicumminimum of intelligenceintelligens to that.
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Vi tilføjer en lille smule intelligens.
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We use CNCCNC to make scaffoldingstilladser
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Vi bruger computere til at lave bygningernes skelet.
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to traintog semi-epitheticsemi-epithetic matterstof, plantsplanter,
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Til at træne semi-epitetisk materiale, planter,
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into a specificbestemt geometrygeometri
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til en bestemt geometri
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that makesmærker a home that we call a FabFab TreeTræ HabHAB.
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der gør et hjem til det vi kalder et Fantastisk Træ Levested(Fab Tree Hab).
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It fitspasser into the environmentmiljø. It is the environmentmiljø.
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Det passer ind i miljøet. Det er miljøet.
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It is the landscapelandskab, right?
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Det er landskabet.
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And you can have a hundredhundrede millionmillion of these homeshjem,
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Og du kan have hundrede millioner af de her hjem.
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and it's great because they sucksuge carbonkulstof.
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Og det er godt, fordi de suger CO2.
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They're perfectperfektionere.
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De er perfekte.
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You can have 100 millionmillion familiesfamilier, or take things out of the suburbsforstæder,
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Du kan have 100 millioner familier, eller tage ting ud af forstæderne,
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because these are homeshjem that are a parten del of the environmentmiljø.
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fordi de er boliger som er en del af miljøet.
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ImagineForestil dig pre-growingpre vokser a villagelandsby --
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Forestil dig at gro en by på forhånd --
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it takes about sevensyv to 10 yearsflere år --
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det tager omkring 7 til 10 år --
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and everything is greengrøn.
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og alting er grønt.
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So not only do we do the veggieVeggie househus,
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Så vi laver ikke kun vegetar huset,
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we alsoogså do the in-vitroin vitro- meatkød habitatlevested,
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vi laver også in vitro kød levestedet,
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or homeshjem that we're doing researchforskning on now in BrooklynBrooklyn,
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eller boliger som vi forsker i nu, i Brooklyn,
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where, as an architecturearkitektur officekontor, we're for the first of its kindvenlig
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hvor et arkitektkontor, som det første af sin art,
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to put in a molecularmolekylær cellcelle biologybiologi lablab
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er sat ind i et molekylærbiologi-laboratorium
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and startStart experimentingeksperimentere with regenerativeregenerativ medicinemedicin
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og startet med at eksperimentere med regenererende medicin
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and tissuevæv engineeringingeniørarbejde
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og vævmanipulation
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and startStart thinkingtænker about what the futurefremtid would be
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og startet med at tænke over hvordan fremtiden ser ud
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if architecturearkitektur and biologybiologi becameblev til one.
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hvis arkitektur og biologi slås sammen.
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So we'vevi har been doing this for a couplepar of yearsflere år, and that's our lablab.
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Det har vi gjort i et par år, og det er vores laboratorium.
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And what we do is we growdyrke
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Og det vi gør, er at gro
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extracellularekstracellulære matrixmatrix from pigssvin.
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ekstracellulær matrix fra grise.
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We use a modifiedmodificeret inkjetinkjet printerprinter,
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Vi brugte en modificeret printer.
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and we printPrint geometrygeometri.
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Og vi printer geometri.
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We printPrint geometrygeometri where we can make industrialindustriel designdesign objectsobjekter
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Vi printer geometri hvor vi kan lave industrielle designobjekter
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like, you know, shoessko, leatherlæder beltsbælter,
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som, I ved, sko, læderbælter,
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handbagshåndtasker, etcetc.,
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håndtasker, osv.,
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where no sentientsansende creaturevæsen is harmedskadet.
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hvor intet sansende væsen er gjort fortræd.
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It's victimlessuden ofre. It's meatkød from a testprøve tuberør.
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Det er uden ofre. Det er kød fra et reagensglas.
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So our theoryteori is that eventuallytil sidst
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Så vores teori er, at vi i sidste ende,
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we should be doing this with homeshjem.
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skal gøre dette med vores hjem.
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So here is a typicaltypisk studStud wallvæg,
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Her er et typisk skelet til en væg,
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an architecturalarkitektoniske constructionkonstruktion,
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en arkitektonisk konstruktion.
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and this is a sectionafsnit
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Og det er en sektion
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of our proposalforslag for a meatkød househus,
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af vores forslag til et kødhus,
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where you can see we use fattyfede cellsceller as insulationisolering,
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hvor man kan se vi bruger fedt celler som isolering,
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ciliacilier for dealingbeskæftiger with windvind loadsbelastninger
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fimrehår for at tage sig af vinden
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and sphinctersphincter musclesmuskler for the doorsdøre and windowsvinduer.
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og ringmuskler som dører og vinduer.
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(LaughterLatter)
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(Latter)
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And we know it's incrediblyutroligt uglygrim.
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Og vi ved det er utrolig grimt.
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It could have been an Englishengelsk TudorTudor or Spanishspansk ColonialColonial,
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Stilen kunne have været engelsk tudor eller en spansk kolonial,
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but we kindvenlig of chosevalgte this shapeform.
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men på en måde valgte vi denne form.
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And there it is kindvenlig of grownvoksen, at leastmindst one particularsærlig sectionafsnit of it.
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Og der er den er groet, eller ihvertfald en sektion af den.
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We had a bigstor showat vise in PraguePrag,
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Vi havde et stort show i Prag.
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and we decidedbesluttede to put it in frontforan of the cathedralCathedral
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Og vi vi besluttede at sætte den foran katedralen
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so religionreligion can confrontkonfrontere the househus of meatkød.
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så religion kan konfrontere huset af kød.
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That's why we growdyrke homeshjem. ThanksTak very much.
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Det er derfor vi gror boliger. Mange tak.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mitchell Joachim - Architect, designer
Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim.

Why you should listen

Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a co-founder of Terreform ONE and Terrefuge, and is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly he was an architect at Gehry Partners and Pei Cobb Freed, and he has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship.

Joachim won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine's "Best Invention of the Year 2007" for his Compacted Car with MIT's Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by Wired for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To."

More profile about the speaker
Mitchell Joachim | Speaker | TED.com