"State of Extremes" exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv, Israel:

Theo Dimitrasopoulos & Nicholas Gervasi represented Terreform ONE in the “State of Extremes” exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv, Israel. Terreform ONE's work Bio-City Map of 11 Billion was on view on the second floor of the museum from January 2020 through May 9, 2020. The Design Museum Holon, founded by the Israeli Design Association and designed by Ron Arad Architects, is one of the foremost design museums in the Middle East, recognized internationally for programming that situates contemporary design within broader social, technological, and environmental contexts.

The Bio-City Map of 11 Billion is a monumental speculative mapping project developed at Terreform ONE under the direction of Mitchell Joachim. The work visualizes the spatial and ecological implications of a global urban population reaching 11 billion — a threshold projected by demographers for the mid-to-late 21st century — by modeling the density, land use patterns, green infrastructure requirements, and systemic interdependencies of a hyper-urbanized Earth. Rather than treating this demographic trajectory as an abstract statistical projection, the map renders it as a physical, spatial reality: a massive, immersive representation that confronts viewers with the scale and urgency of design's role in shaping the cities of the future. The project draws on principles of biodesign and ecological urbanism to propose that the growth of cities need not come at the expense of biodiversity and natural systems, but can be actively designed to integrate them.

The State of Extremes exhibition assembled a diverse group of designers, architects, and researchers from around the world whose work engages with the concept of environmental and climatic extremity — from the effects of rising sea levels and desertification to the collapse of biodiversity and the social consequences of intensifying resource competition. Curated by Eric Chen with Maya Dvash and Azinta Plantenga, the exhibition used the framework of "extremes" both as a description of present-day conditions and as a lens through which to evaluate design's capacity to respond, adapt, and propose alternative futures.

Curators: Eric Chen with Maya Dvash and Azinta Plantenga.
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