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2011/9
map-lab welcomes Jimena Bedoya, Andrew Hovey, Anastasia Lyons, and Kelly Paris, from the BAC's Gateway Initiative program

2011/6
Greentown Labs, Boston's Cleantech Incubator, officialy opens for business. map-lab is a Gigawatt Sponsore

2011/6
Four Boston Architectural College Students will work with map-lab on their Gateways Initiatives project this summer

2011/6
map-lab welcomes Briana Souza for a summer internship

2011/5
ResilienCity was selected as a finalist for the Living Cities Design Competition. Our favorite comment from the judges was: "there are a lot of very practical elements to this vision – we hope that decision-makers from the City of Boston spend time reviewing this entry.  There is a lot to learn from."

2011/3
David will be attending the Structures for Inclusion Conference in Chicago. This conference focuses on design for social good.

2011/2
David presented at Pecha Kucha Boston #21, map-lab also was the sponsor and designer of the event poster

2011/1
map-lab just completed our submission for the Living Cities Design Competition... stay tuned for details

2010/11
map-lab will be presenting two workshops at the 2010 BuildBoston Conference. Wed 11/17 at 3:30pm "Designing and Engineering Profits" & Thursday 11/18 at 8:30am will be "Competition to Crops: Urban Agriculture as a Catalyst for Urban Planning" - You can sign up for these workshops here

2010/11
Abby will be presenting about City/Build at the Association of Architecture Organizations' Design in Action Conference in Chicago

2010/10
map-lab is featured in the October issue of Green Building and Design Magazine

2010/10
Dan will be on the Injured Reserve with a broken leg he received in a soccer game, he scored a goal on the play though! Fellow map-lab member and teammate Stephen will continue to carry the team!

2010/10
map-lab celebrates its sixth anniversary! 

2010/10
Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance, the non-profit arm of map-lab, officially launches

2010/8
Dan has been selected to be a member of the Housing Subcommittee of the Onein3 Mayor's Advisory Council. Onein3 serves the 1/3rd of the Boston population between the ages of 20-34

2010/8
map-lab welcome Northeastern Univ. intern Chris Doherty

2010/06
David and Stephen named to the Advisory Board of Scopa Group, which is the business entity of map-lab collaborator Andrea Atkinson. They join Bill Reed, an internationally recognized proponent and practitioner in sustainability, among others.

2010/05
David and Stephen named to Founding Members group for The Green Trade Association

2009/11
map-lab goes mobile at BuildBoston. See photos of our 'salon' on flickr

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ResilienCity: Boston's Innovation District 2035

ResilienCity seeks to set the vision for the future of Boston’s Innovation District, a new neighborhood built on greyfield and brownfield sites that will provide residences and workplaces for over 300,000 people. We have reached the tipping point where we need to think of the whole, not the self. We have arrived at a time when we need to stop behaving selfishly and begin to explore how we can all come together as a community to create environments that are culturally enriching, healthier, and equitable. We come back to nature to do this.

Read more at the lab_blog....


Help our friends at Architecture for Humanity by supporting the reconstruction in Japan

For those not used to working in disasters the first week is chaotic, filled with stories of heroism and despair. The first responders are not the charities but the families of those who are injured or missing. For those caught in this tragic situation, this is an overwhelming situation to be in.

It is also not the time for architects or urban planners to show up thinking they can start rebuilding. People are trying to find their loved ones and grieve not think about what their community will look like in 5, 10 or 15 years. For those of us who are part of the reconstruction effort, we need to think about immediate needs for shelter while planning for the next three to five years of rebuilding.  See more...


 

map-lab launches non-profit: Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance

map-lab is thrilled to announce the launching of the Urban Neighborhood Design Alliance (UNDA), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. UNDA encompasses educational programs originally supported through Historic Neighborhoods, such as City/Build and Just Around the Corner. UNDA embodies the spirit and expands upon the vision of Historic Neighborhoods through education, community planning & advocacy, and research.

The Boston area has a wealth of talented architects interested in education and giving back through not for profit organizations. UNDA hopes to work in conjunction with other local organizations as well as supplement current program offerings and build a community of people dedicated to and who believe in our mission. This also creates an outlet for like-minded professionals and students to become involved and participate as volunteers, sponsors, contributors, lecturers, or as donors.

Please visit the UNDA website for membership and sponsorship opportunities.

 

 

Victory Theatre :: Holyoke, MA

map-lab is providing planning services to the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) who are currently planning to restore the Victory Theatre, a 1,600 seat Vaudeville style theatre that has been closed since 1979.  map-lab has been working with MIFA to identify opportunities that the restored Victory Theatre will provide to the City of Holyoke.  map-lab's comprehensive urban planning studies have researched physical and cultural assets with the goal of dovetailing the future restored theatre with the redevelopment plans for Holyoke.  map-lab's primary focus in on an Arts and Innovation District which comprises a five block stretch through the middle of the urban center.  In addition to the urban planning effort, map-lab has created a 3D animated model of the Victory Theatre for the use of the project team for fund raising efforts and to display the extent of restoration required for a project such as this.