Terreform Receives Award for UR (Urban Research)

Terreform has received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts so that it can continue its publication series (URpub.org). This will support our initiative to disseminate speculative research,  designs and analyses that focus on a progressive urbanism.

See their announcement printed in Arch Daily: Graham Foundation Announces $419,000 in 2016 Grants to Organizations.

Also check out our grantees project page at Graham Foundation: UR (Urban Research), Volumes 07-11.

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2015 Young Scholar of the Year

Terreform principal investigator, Damiano Cerreno, was awarded the Young Scholar Award by ESRI. Check out his research project, A Sense of Place, commissioned by the City of Turku, Finland. The project studied how Location Based Social Network data can be used in urban and transportation planning. The resulting maps visualized various scenarios including the effects of a proposed new tram line. Cerrone presented his project at UC San Diego (video).

Cerrone is also a founding member of the academic research collaboration, SPIN Unit. Their map was awarded 2nd prize in ESRI's 'Most Unique Map of the Year'. See it here!