Vanguard

Vanguard visualizes groundbreaking new technologies and ideas and examines their impact and the design process behind their development.

Clip-on Architecture: Reforesting Cities
Vanessa Keith explores some simple yet radical ways to retrofit our urban building stock to address a chief cause of climate change: tropical deforestation.
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Clip-on Architecture: Climate Crisis Causes & Solutions
In Part Two of Clip-On Architecture, Vanessa Keith looks at tropical deforestation and catalogues some sustainable solutions currently being applied in the developing world.
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Off the Road and Into the Skies
As cities demand more efficient transit systems, Steven Dale argues for thinking off the road and outside the subway, and suggests that Cable-Propelled Transit could be our answer.
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One Size Fits Some
This symposium is part of the Citizen’s Housing & Planning Council’s broad-based investigation of housing and space standards in New York City. Read, watch, listen and respond.
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STACKD
Communication designer Sidney Blank shares the story behind STACKD, a new social networking site that helps people in Manhattan office buildings get in touch – for business or beers.
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Designers and Citizens
as Critical Media Artists
Artists and educators Jesse Shapins and Brian House discuss new directions in urban media arts, connecting maps, dictionaries and the tools of design education.
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Work and the Open Source City
Laura Forlano shares some examples of coworking in New York and discusses their implications for where, how, and with whom we work.
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Imagining Recovery
Architecture students Wayne Congar and Troy Therrien share the back story of the design competition they organized to invite new visions of post-financial crisis America.
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Fluxxlab: Making Ideas Happen
Architects Jenny Broutin and Carmen Trudell reflect on the development of their prototype for energy generating revolving doors, offering a case study for other innovators.
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Ulrich Franzen’s Street
Ulrich Franzen's 1969 film articulates a bold vision to reclaim Manhattan’s congested streets. 40 years later, we're still talking about the same thing.
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