Mitchell Joachim, PhD, is the Co-Counder of Terraform ONE and an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU.



Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology] is a non-profit architecture group that promotes smart design 

in cities. Through our creative projects and outreach efforts, we aim to illuminate the environmental 

possibilities of New York City and inspire solutions in areas like it around the world. We are a unique 

laboratory of specialists with diverse disciplinary backgrounds that explore and advance the larger 

framework of socio-ecological design. The group develops innovative concepts and technologies for 

local sustainability in energy, transportation, infrastructure, buildings, waste treatment, food, and water. These novel research projects are derived from the interface of design, engineering, and 

synthetic biology.