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 | Speaker | TED.com
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Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

Mitchell Joachim : Ne construisez pas votre maison, faites-la pousser !

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TED Fellow et designer urbain, Mitchell Joachim présente sa vision d'une architecture durable et organique : des maisons en adobe écologiques qu'on fait pousser à partir de plantes et, retenez votre souffle, de la viande.
- 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 grow homes? Because we can.
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Pourquoi faire pousser des maisons? Parce que nous pouvons le faire.
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Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma.
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En ce moment même, l'Amérique est durablement traumatisée.
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And there's a cause for that, all right.
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Et il y a une cause à ça bien sûr.
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We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses.
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Nous avons des MacPersonnes, des MacVoitures, des MacMaisons.
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As an architect, I have to confront something like this.
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En tant qu'architecte, je dois faire face à quelque chose comme ça.
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So what's a technology that will allow us
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Alors qu'est-ce qu'une technologie qui nous permettra
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to make ginormous houses?
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de fabriquer des maisons énormes ?
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Well, it's been around for 2,500 years.
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Et bien, ça existe depuis environ 2500 ans.
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It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together,
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ça s'appelle le plessis, ou le fait de greffer les arbres ensemble,
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or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system.
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ou de greffer de la matière dans un système vasculaire contigü.
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And we do something different
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Et nous faisons quelque chose de différent
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than what we did in the past;
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de ce que nous faisions par le passé ;
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we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that.
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nous y ajoutons une petite quantité d'intelligence.
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We use CNC to make scaffolding
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Nous utilisons des calculs informatiques pour créer un échaffaudage
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to train semi-epithetic matter, plants,
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pour contraindre de la matière et des plantes
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into a specific geometry
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à prendre une forme géométrique spécifique
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that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab.
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pour créer une maison que nous appelons "Fab Tree Hab" ("Habitat Végétal Génial")
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It fits into the environment. It is the environment.
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Elle s'intègre dans l'environnement. C'est l'environnement.
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It is the landscape, right?
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C'est vraiment le paysage, non ?
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And you can have a hundred million of these homes,
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On peut créer 100 millions de maisons comme celle-ci,
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and it's great because they suck carbon.
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et c'est génial car elles aspirent le carbone.
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They're perfect.
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Elles sont parfaites.
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You can have 100 million families, or take things out of the suburbs,
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On peut y loger 100 millions de familles ou les placer dans les banlieues,
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because these are homes that are a part of the environment.
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car ces maisons font partie de l'environnement.
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Imagine pre-growing a village --
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Imaginez commencer à faire pousser un village,
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it takes about seven to 10 years --
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ça prend entre 7 et 10 ans,
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and everything is green.
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et tout est vert.
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So not only do we do the veggie house,
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Nous ne faisons donc pas seulement la maison végétarienne,
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we also do the in-vitro meat habitat,
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mais aussi celle en viande in-vitro,
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or homes that we're doing research on now in Brooklyn,
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ou des maisons que nous étudions actuellement à Brooklyn,
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where, as an architecture office, we're for the first of its kind
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où, en tant que cabinet d'architectes, nous innovons
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to put in a molecular cell biology lab
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en mettant un laboratoire de biologie moléculaire
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and start experimenting with regenerative medicine
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et commençons à faire des expériences de médecine régénérative
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and tissue engineering
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et la génération de tissus,
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and start thinking about what the future would be
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et nous avons commencé à penser à ce que serait le futur
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if architecture and biology became one.
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si l'architecture et la biologie s'unissaient.
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So we've been doing this for a couple of years, and that's our lab.
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Nous faisons ça depuis deux ans, voici notre labo.
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And what we do is we grow
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Et ce que nous faisons, nous faisons pousser
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extracellular matrix from pigs.
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des matrices extracellulaires à partir de cochons.
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We use a modified inkjet printer,
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Nous utilisons une imprimante à jet d'encre modifiée.
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and we print geometry.
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et nous imprimons de la géométrie.
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We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects
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Nous imprimons les formes géométriques à partir desquelles nous pouvons créer des objets industriels design,
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like, you know, shoes, leather belts,
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comme des chaussures, des ceintures en cuir,
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handbags, etc.,
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des sacs à main, etc.
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where no sentient creature is harmed.
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sans qu'aucune créature douée de sens ne soit blessée.
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It's victimless. It's meat from a test tube.
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C'est sans victimes. C'est de la viande issue de tubes à essai.
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So our theory is that eventually
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Notre théorie est donc que finalement
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we should be doing this with homes.
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nous devrions faire aussi ça avec les maisons.
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So here is a typical stud wall,
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Voici donc un mur typique,
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an architectural construction,
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une construction architecturale,
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and this is a section
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et voici une section
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of our proposal for a meat house,
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de notre proposition d'une maison en viande,
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where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation,
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où vous pouvez voir que nous utilisons des cellules graisseuses comme isolant,
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cilia for dealing with wind loads
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des cils pour abriter du vent
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and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.
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et des muscles de sphincter pour les portes et les fenêtres.
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(Laughter)
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(Rires)
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And we know it's incredibly ugly.
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Nous savons que c'est incroyablement laid.
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It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial,
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C'aurait pu être un style Tudor anglais ou colonial espagnol
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but we kind of chose this shape.
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mais nous avons choisi cette forme.
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And there it is kind of grown, at least one particular section of it.
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Le voici, il a bien grandi, au moins une de ces sections en particulier.
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We had a big show in Prague,
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Nous avons fait un grand spectacle à Prague.
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and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral
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et nous avons décidé de la mettre en face de la cathédrale
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so religion can confront the house of meat.
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pour que la religion se confronte à la maison en viande.
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That's why we grow homes. Thanks very much.
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Voici pourquoi nous faisons pousser des maisons. Merci beaucoup.
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Translated by Elisabeth Buffard
Reviewed by Ariana Bleau Lugo

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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

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