The competition is organized by project directors Troy Conrad Therrien and Wayne Congar, formerly of lab\RAD, in collaboration with the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, C-LAB.
The Mobile Laboratory is organized by Imagining Recovery in collaboration with Speedism.
lab/RAD
Arielle Assouline-Lichten and Wayne Congar founded The Laboratory for Research, Architecture & Design (labRAD) in February, 2008. As a student administered think-tank and production unit, the effectiveness of labRAD is wholly dependent on its ability to foster collaboration across disciplines and borders. labRAD has served as a virtual hub for designers from various schools of architecture and design in the U.S. and abroad, including the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation (GSAPP), the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Yale School of Architecture (YSOA) and the Architectural Association (AA) in London, among others.
In the short time since its establishment, successful labRAD partnerships yielded several award-winning projects, domestic and international exhibitions, and publications in various print and web-based periodicals, magazines and books. labRAD is always looking for new projects and collaborators.
lab\RAD is no longer, it has been disbanded to make way for a new form of organization amongst some of its directors.
Speedism
Speedism is the duo Julian Friedauer, Germany, and Pieterjan Ginckels, Belgium. They work in the fields of architecture, architectural theory, visual arts, visual theory, urban tactics, imagineering, visual arts and scriptwriting. As visual artists and architects, and starting from these backgrounds Speedism develops a visual universe, theoretical landscapes, denkräume, narratives and scenarios. In the work, Speedism brings together very diverse fields of influence, ranging from wikipedia, mythology, urban theory, geo- political analysis, technical restrictions, music, and on and on. The result of this input, through a process best described in the SPEEDISM MANIFEST, is usually a digital image, started from scratch. Speedism presents the images in lecture-performances, as prints installed in and scaled for a specific spatial context, or they build a context around them – a three-dimensional addition to the image.
C-LAB
C-Lab, the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, is an experimental research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication in architecture, set up as a semi-autonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.
Founded in 2005, C-Lab collaborates with Archis and AMO on Volume, an independent quarterly for architecture to go beyond itself.
Directed by Jeffrey Inaba
STUDIO-X is a downtown studio for design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.
STUDIO-X locates itself in the heart of New York’s creative community to establish a productive workspace and a rendezvous point for regular gatherings of colleagues dedicated to emergent thought.
STUDIO-X provides an open infrastructure for short-term collaborative projects by a collective of GSAPP faculty while acting as a base for some of the school’s long-term experimental research units.
STUDIO-X brings together a new generation of architects, historians, theorists, graphic designers, spatial data analysts, media analysts, video artists, and landscape designers who have already established their independent practices.
STUDIO-X extends the daily operations of an architectural school devoted to all aspects of the built environment further into the public domains of design competitions, reports, publications, commissions, exhibitions, and events.
STUDIO-X dedicates itself to removing the lines between education and action, information and transformation.
Directed by Gavin Browning