Thursday, April 15, 2010

Meridian Design’s Research & Development Page

Knowing that Ideas Animate Architecture, and that Practices must be visionary, and visionaries must be practical, our firm has always invested in Research & Development. We gladly participate in the evolution of our communities, of the market segments & industries we serve.


 

On this page you'll find a multi-media gallery of this aspect of our work.                    Have a look.


 

                            Join the Conversations – Each Title below provides a link to more details about these aspects of our practice.


 

Sustainability and

the Multi-media Workplace

 Our firm has long been a leader in building a culture of sustainability.  At the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters Conference, Antonio Argibay presented a paper exploring how the energy intensive Multi-media workplace can re-vision it's workplaces and systems to enhance sustainability.


 

Place-Making

The simplest description of what we do is that we are Place-makers. We pay attention to the complex conditions currently shaping a place, to the vision, needs and aspirations of our clients that might shape what that place becomes, and to the process by which hundreds of people and places will contribute to intervening in what is to make it better, healthier, more conducive to well-being.


 

Bice's Blog on this subject can be accessed by clicking on the title above.

Designing the Intelligent Public Way

Since 2008 our firm has been convening this Salon Series and web based collaboration space exploring the integration of Information and Communication Technology into our comprehensive planning for Community, Cultural and Commercial Development.

Meridian Music Project

Bice's practice has long explored ways that the Places we help make can express the pattern of life we all inhabit. This project involves communities collaborating to create Place-Moment Sculptures in Civic Space, each of which expresses, in form, in sound and in data/imagery the daily moment when that place passes under the sun – local high noon.


 

In aggregate, all the place-moment notes amount to a perpetual multi-media symphony expressing the earth's evolution.


 

Have a look.

Thriveability

Many folks have begun to question whether Sustainability is something to aspire to. Do you want to just sustain yourself, is that perhaps like bread and water.


 

Perhaps we want to Thrive. Thriveability is a new Meme.


 

Bice C. Wilson was asked to contribute a page to a curated crowd-sourced web-book built around words that are aspects of Thriveability.

 

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