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GOOD: The Highline

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The Next Generation of American Public Spaces. An original GOOD Video presentation on the Highline.

04:10

Inspired by Design: A House for Blake
Building a house for her son Blake started off as an antidote to city life when mom and music industry executive Debbie Gibbs embraced the idea of a prefab home. The stigma of these houses has drastically changed over the last 10 years. It is now about mass customization where each house responds to each individual. Thanks to the folks at RESOLUTION: 4 ARCHITECTURE, Debbie was able to customize a home that enabled her family to have their indoor and outdoor lifestyle flow together seamlessly with high design and a low environmental impact. Having spent a winter in their new home Debbie has come to realize that she is getting as much pleasure out of it as her son.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/inspiredbydesign.

04:10

Inspired by Design: New Gen, Next Gen
The 100K house, led by Brain Phillips of IS Architects and developer Chad Ludeman of PostGreen, is a modern case study in housing design that aims to prove that building green can be more affordable than traditional construction. Built mainly on vacant city sites and costing a mere 100 dollars per square foot, it is the highest level of sustainable home currently being built in the United States. Designed for an emerging creative class that has an eye for design but also a desire for sustainability, the 100k house creates a social and functional home that poses an important question: How much space does an individual really need?

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/inspiredbydesign.

04:11

Inspired by Design: Surf, Live, Paint
After 20 years of living in New York City, painter and DJ Andrea Shapiro decided that she needed a change of pace. Drawn to the beauty of the Hamptons, Andrea found herself inspired by the ocean and influenced by the light and color of the landscape. In collaboration with her architect lead, Maziar Behrooz of MB Architecture, they designed both a living and studio space that embraces the natural environment while at the same time nurturing Andrea's creative expression. The end result is a free-spirited lifestyle that is truly Inspired by Design.

05:29

New Urbanism ep 8 - Rooftop Dwelling
Terreform, a nonprofit architecture collective transforms the rooftop of a building in downtown Brooklyn into a shelter and farm for urban refugees- people displaced by the mortgage crisis. Their two-week project, called Terrefarm, used only materials found in the building, and involved students and teachers from around the world. For more episodes in this series, visit: New Urbanism

03:58

New Urbanism ep 13: Mobile Office
Kyle Minor, a San Francisco-based designer and artist, bought an industrial-grade double wide trailer from some fisherman with the intention of moving it onto a piece of land and living outside of the city. When he dragged it down to the end of a pier on San Francisco Bay next to his shop, he realized it worked better right where it was. Now he has sold it as an alternative office space to a group of prolific inventors.Stills courtesy of Karolirene at www.atelierkism.com and Kyle Minor at www.kyleminordesign.com. For more episodes in this series, visit: New Urbanism

01:58

New Urbanism: ep 1 teaser - NYC Waterpod
The Waterpod is a floating eco-habitat that will study self-sufficient, water-based living. Four artists will rotate living on board the 30-by-100-foot barge as it moves to different sites around NYC for the next five months. For all other episodes, interesting links, more info, check out Babelgum's New Urbanism

03:17

Robert Hammond at The 99% Conference
In this video, Friends of the Highline co-founder Robert Hammond tells the story of how he helped reinvent a gritty elevated railway into what is NYC's most celebrated public space since Central Park. He shares images and animations of what the park (due to open in June) will look like at a talk for our recent 99% Conference and shares how he feels after a decade at work at the brink of its debut.

03:19

New Urbanism ep 7 - Grow Shelter
The Grow Shelter is a living environment where humans, plants, and animals co-exist. It consists of three connected spheres covered in earth and seeds. The habitat evolves with the seasons showing the cycle of life. The concept is to bring people closer to the environment. For more episodes in this series, visit: New Urbanism

02:02

BIG IDEAS: ep 2 – Dickson Despommier's Vertical...
If there weren't any pesky practical limitations, what world-changing device would you invent? Columbia professor Dickson Despommier imagines filling New York’s skyscrapers with farms. To learn more about vertical farming, go to www.verticalfarm.com.
For more videos in this series, visit babelgum.com/bigideas

03:20

GOOD: Vampire Energy
Some household appliances cost us while they sit around and collect dust. They suck energy just by being plugged in, even if they aren’t turned on. This wickedly wasteful phenomenon is commonly known as standby power, but we call it Vampire Energy.

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