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December 17, 2020

Joseph Dahmen describes Watershed Materials’ recent projects at an event organized by the United States Department of Energy Building Technology Office on Circular Economy and Life Cycle Impacts. 

June 16, 2020
C-Shore awarded a Core77 Design Award in Built Environment!

June 8, 2020
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Director Kalina Christoff interviews Joseph Dahmen on the links between architecture, space and COVID-19 for the Ways of Knowing podcast. Listen to the podcast episode here. 

April 18, 2020
Keeping Stanley Park car-free permanently OpEd by Joseph Dahmen in the Vancouver Sun on temporary COVID-19 traffic closures.

March 7, 2020
Examining the Environmental Impacts of Materials and Buildings, edited by Blaine Brownell with contributions by Franca Trubiano, Jeanna Ripple, and Joseph Dahmen,  is available in print and digital formats. From the publisher: “Examining the Environmental Impacts of Materials and Buildings provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of ecological performance within modern building design and materials-based construction.” 

October 19, 2019
Joseph Dahmen participates in Where Does Value Lie? Exploring the Spectrum of Building Deconstruction and Adaptive Reuse, a panel discussion on Heritage, Waste, Reuse at the Annual Conference of the National Trust.

October 19, 2019
Joseph Dahmen participates in Where Does Value Lie? Exploring the Spectrum of Building Deconstruction and Adaptive Reuse, a panel discussion on Heritage, Waste, Reuse at the Annual Conference of the National Trust.

October 15, 2019
C-Shore project story in Canadian Architect 

“C-Shore is a pavilion designed and constructed by graduate students at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture that relates material ecologies to design poetics…”

October 6, 2019
”Tear Down or Build Up?” OpEd by Joseph Dahmen and Jens von Bergmann in The Province (Vancouver)

“Providing sustainable housing to one million new residents moving to our region by 2050 will require letting go of older suburban models of development built on carbon-intensive single-family homes punctuated by clusters of glass towers….”

June 14, 2019
C-Shore opening in Vancouver.

November 1, 2018
Material Ecologies lecture at University of Manitoba Faculty of Architecture 

March 21, 2018
”Teardown Index” published in Energy and Buildings

March 13, 2018 

Joseph Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez lecture at Mycological Society of Vancouver 

“AFJD uses material exploration and emerging technologies to provoke fundamental questions about our relationship to architecture. This talk will look at AFJD’s recent architectural installations using mushrooms-based materials. Their practice is eclectic and multidimensional, which reflects the changing culture of design and technology….”

February 28, 2017
Joe Dahmen presents at Tech Vancouver

February 22, 2017
Teardown Index covered by CBC, Globe and Mail, and Vancouver Sun

February 21, 2017

Teardown Index released, a collaboration with Jens von Bergmann that investigates the cycle of  teardowns and reconstruction of single family homes in Vancouver. Press Release.

January 22, 2017
Joe Dahmen presents at Ideas Forum organized by Toronto Society of Architects at Gladstone Hotel, Toronto

January 18, 2017
AJFD's mushroom furniture Mycobench will be a part of Living Well exhibition at Toronto Offsite Design Festival. Exhibition dates: January 16-March 1. Opening: January 22, 2017 3-5pm at Craft Ontario

January 18, 2017
Joe Dahmen presents on Soft Architecture at Sam Sullivan's Public Salon at the Vancouver Playhouse

November 30, 2016
Joe Dahmen lectures at Peter Wall Institute

August 19, 2016
Joe Dahmen will join Kaitlyn Gillis, Nicholas Waissbluth, and Caitlin Jones  on the panel at Turncoats #2: Green Wash organized by Kees Lokman and Tony Osborn

When:   Thursday, 1 September 2016, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PDT)
Where:  DUDC (Dutch Urban Design & Development) Vancouver
             1445 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6G 2T3

August 14, 2016
AFJD will hold a mushroom moulding workshop from 3:00-5:00pm at at Western Washington University's Western Gallery at as part of Primary Research Lab: Minimalist Labs and Field Research. 

June 26, 2016
AFJD mushroom furniture installation opens at Western Gallery at Western Washington University as part of Primary Research Lab: Minimalist Labs and Field Research. Please join us for the opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30pm. The installation, curated by Lee Plested, will be up until August 31, 2016. 

May 17, 2016
Joe Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez lecture on Biophysical Architecture at Western Washington University

April 25, 2016
CTV features They Grow Without Us, AFJD's mushroom seating at UBC

April 12, 2016
AFJD installs They Grow Without Us, functional public seating grown from mushrooms at the UBC Bookstore, Lee Square. Please join us for the opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30pm. The installation will be up until July 1st, 2016. The project is part of the UBC Centennial Celebration.

August 16 2015
AFJD installs Mycelium Mockup at Museum of Vancouver in CATALYZE exhibition organized by Artistic Directors Kate Armstrong Malcolm Levy ISEA2015, the annual conference of the International Society of Electronic Arts

August 5, 2015
BC Hydroelectric Authority to fund Studio for Form and Energy at UBC  to investigate the intersections of energy and architecture.