Rborn_BMD Design Challenge

8/14/2019 Rborn_BMD Design Challenge

1/15

BMDDESIGN

C H A L L E N G E

R O S H E L L E B O R N

0 6 . 0 8 .2009


2/15

THE

TOPIve thought, defined, undefined, written, sketched, listened, read, researched, viewed, reviewed, amassed,compiled, dissected and finally selected the most exciting and inspiring

TEN1-0 [in no particular order]

THINGSideas, trends, innovations, projects, and institutions

CHANGINGinspiring, challenging + revolutionizing the major issues facing

THE WORLDthe present collective circumstances, in which we live,work, grow interact, think, learn, build, move, give + consume, with a

RIGHThopeful + optimistic focus, and

NOWa sense of immediacy for what is relevant today [06.08.09], but has even greater implications for our shared future .


3/15

TRANSPORTATION

CLIMATE CHANGE

DISEASE

EDUCATION

URBANIZATION

SUSTAINABILITY

GLOBAL RECESSION

POVERTY

THE ISSUES

HUNGER

RENEWABLE ENERGY


4/15

MIT Professor Tom Malone predicted the internet would change

the structure of industries,resulting in the fall of large verticallyoriented companies and the emergence of a decentralized

networked economy.

Big business keeps getting bigger,and bigger,and bigger,and bigger,and bigger and bigger.

A

e

in

u

to

th

g

h

it

ita

o

m

im

n

a

r

m

F

in

im

th

SEPT 08

LATE 80sAmerican companies faltered, resulting in a global

economic recession. Huge top-down companies

proved too slow to react, too dependent on debt,

and unable to adequately control and cater to

their diversified markets.

GLOBAL ISSUE: ECONOMIC RECESSION

ACTION: FLASH FIRMS

A global economic recession has affected the entire planet, resulting in widespread job losses, poverty

and hunger. In the face of the recession and collapse of big business we are confronted with a greatopportunity to restructure the organization of industry for the new globalized and digital environment. The

decentralization of big business into distributed-information networks and Flash Firms will forever change

the way many of us live, work, interact and move.


5/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: URBANIZATION

ACTION: 19.20.21

19.20.21 is 5 year, multi-media initiative collecting, organizing and better understanding the populations

effect regarding urban and business planning and its impact on consumers around the world. Subjectsof exploration include health, education, transportation,demographics,energy,water,economics,and culture, to

name a few. It is my personal hope is that 19.20.21 not only uncovers and quantifies the patterns of

urban environments, but provides designers, planners and policy-makers with an action plan that enhances

both individual experiences of urban environments and the environmental impact of urbanization.

The population...is ill-prepared for

life in the supercities of tomorrow.


6/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: EDUCATION

ACTION: UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE

Education empowers peoples, resulting in exponential change. The University of the People, in conjunction

with efforts to bring technology to all corners of the earth, opens the opportunity of free, equal educationto everyone on the planet.

1998

David Wiley coins the

term

The Open Courseware

Consortium forms to

advance education

through open

courseware

The Open

Courseware

Consortiumgrows to

over 200

contributing

institutions

of highereducation.

2000MIT proposes the open

courseware Project

2001

Creative Commons is

founded in Massachusetts

UNESCO

sponsors a forumand chooses

to describe their efforts

to create a universal

educational resource forall of humanity

2002 2003

MIT officially launches

in October with 500courses

2002 2008


7/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: CLIMATE CHANGE

ACTION: SUN COME UP

Sun Come Up startles, informs, and inspires people to act now.

The Carteret Islanders are a community in the Pacific Islands that is losing their homeland due to the

effects of climate change, becoming the worlds first climate change refugees. Rising sea levels resulting

from global warming largely the fault of the modern world have flooded their islands,contaminating crops

and freshwater wells, despite the fact that the islanders live without electricity, cars or running water.

Sun Come Up is a portrayal of the people faced with the loss of their land,and by extension their identityand way of life. The film raises awareness of this critical moment in history, shedding light on new

issues of protecting human rights and culture of people displaced by the negligence and injudiciousness

of other populations. The film inspires people to take action against climate change to prevent future

transgressions. Last weekend [06.03.2009], the producers screened a short of the film [still a work in

progress] at the Media that Matters film festival.

to

20


8/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: RENEWABLE ENERGY

ACTION: THE HYWIND

Wind power available in the atmosphere is much greater than current world energy consumption. The

most comprehensive study to date found the potential of wind power on land and near-shore to be 72TW, equivalent to 54,000 MToE (million tons of oil equivalent) per year, or over five times the worlds

current energy use in all forms. This weekend [06.06-07.2009] the Hywind became worlds first floating

wind turbine.

The Hywind, a collaboration between Siemens and Statoil, is 2.3 MWwind turbine that will be tested off the coast of Norway for two years, in

search of harvesting the stronger and more consistent winds at sea over

larger areas,all while out of site. The wind turbine draws on knowledge

of offshore oil and gas technologies,and combines this with current wind

power technologies used on land or near shore. In addition to testingthe current design of the pilot, Statoils goal is to reduce costs so that

floating wind power can compete in the power market.

bec

firwin

Offic


9/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: SUSTAINABILITY

ACTION: ECOTECT

Building consume 48% of all energy,76% of all electricity,and make-up 50% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Ecotect is a building design and environmental analysis tool that covers the full range of simulationand analysis functions required to understand how a building design will operate and perform. It finally

allows designers to work easily in 3D and apply all the tools necessary for an energy efficient and

sustainable future. Ecotects allows designers to calculate sustainability data early and often in the design

process, allowing designers to make changes in the crucial early stages of the project. Ecotect takes

time, uncertainty, and cost out of the building, changing the way that arcihtects, engineers, and designersworldwide approach the design process. Ecotect will directly and positively impact the physical built

environment on a worldwide scale.


10/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: TRANSPORTATION

ACTION: SUSTAINABLE PERSONAL MOBILITY + MOBILITY-ON-

DEMAND SYSTEMS (SPM/MoD)

As cities continue to grow at never seen before rates, populations become increasingly mobile, and theenvironment continues to be exacerbated by fossil fuel emissions, many are looking to urban planner,

policy makers, vehicle designers, transportation infrastructures and alternative energies to provide integrated

alternatives to our current predicament. There are various programs all over the world being implemented

to reduce the worlds dependence on fossil fuels and cater to population and mobility demands, including

bike sharing,automobile innovation,and high-speed rail, to name a few. SPM/MoD is significant in thatits integrated approach has the potential for immediate application in the United States,where dependence

on oil and fossil fuel emissions are the greatest and most hazardous levels.

06.06.2009 the Buckminster Fuller Institute awarded SPM/MoD, an interdisciplinary student team

represented 8 different countries from MIT, the $100,000 first prize for the 2009 Buckminster Fuller

Challenge. SPM/MoD plans to use the money towards furthering the research and implementation oftheir proposal.

C

4


11/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: DISEASE

ACTION: WAKE FOREST INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE

MEDICINE

Everyday 17 people in the United States die waiting to receive an organ transplant. Imagine a worldwhere there is no waiting, less uncertainty,and less diseases pervading the lives of families; a world where

no one is relegated to a group of permanently disabled, but instead people are made continually made

more able. Regenerative Medicine is on the cusp of eliminating the shortage of organs,and reducing the

risk of organ rejection. North Carolines Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is the largest

bioengineering firm in the world.

2006

The Institute announced it had grown human

bladders in a lab,had been the first to successfully

implant the lab-grown organs in people, and

those people that received them were still healthy

5 years later.

Dr. Atala and his team have been able to shock

cells back to their pluripotent state,which means

the lab can grow complex organic structures

from a few human cells, such as skin cells,

instead of using embryonic stem cells.

2008 20

The

tissue

poten

healt


12/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: HUNGER

ACTION: THE VERTICAL FARM PROJECT

By 2050, two thirds of us will be living in cities [see URBANIZATION]. Conservative estimates suggest

that the human population will increase by 3 billion people. An estimated 109 hectares of new land[about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil] will be needed to grow enough food

to feed us, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the

world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use. Historically, some 15% of that

has been laid waste by poor management practices. Vertical farms offer the promise of urban renewal,

sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply year-round,and may allow for the eventual repairof ecosystems that have been damaged by reckless practices in horizontal farming.

Offers

measur

improve

and su

LDCs.

Could r

of arm

natural

as wa

agricult


13/15

GLOBAL ISSUE: POVERTY

ACTION:ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL POVERTY ACTION LAB [J-PAL]

Over three billion people, roughly half the worlds population, live on less than two dollars a day. ThePoverty Action Lab (J-Pal) will positively impact over 100 million of these people in the next three years.

Traditional policy approaches to alleviate poverty including monetary assistance and increased trade have

not solved the problem,and in some cases,worsened it. J-PAL realizes that radical change requires taking

a step back to critically understand of the underlying systems in place in order to move ahead into the

future. J-PALs goal is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. Someof the findings are surprising. Providing textbooks to students does not improve test scores or drop-outrates. Whats in a name? Emily and Greg are more employable than Lakisha and Jamal. Students less likelyto take deworming drugs if they learn about them through their social network.While others are obviousbut mayve failed to get the attention of policy makers. Women are more politically active in village councils

with a female leader. Recipients of consumer credit retain wage employment and are less impoverished.Thework being done by J-PAL not only changes the lives of millions of people, but also changes the way in

which people approach issues facing the world today.

200529 Evaluations Completed

2008

30 Million

Lives Positively Impacted

2010180 Evaluations Completed

201


14/15


15/15

Rborn_BMD Design Challenge

Documents

Transcript of Rborn_BMD Design Challenge