Human-Powered River Gymnasiums for New York

Douglas Joachim is a Personal Trainer, and Lecturer. He is certified with the National Academy of Sports Medicine: CPT; PES; IFS, American Council of Exercise: CPT, and American Academy of Health Fitness Professionals: MES. He earned a B.S. with an emphasis in Exercise Science & Creative Studies. Doug has ten years of experience as a PT in functional anatomy, injury prevention, core training, and motivation.

Mitchell Joachim is a Ph. D. candidate at the Department of Architecture's Computation Group at MIT. His dissertation is entitled: "Ecotransology: Integrated Designs for Urban Mobility." Prior to MIT, he completed two master's degrees from Harvard University (MAUD) and Columbia University (M.Arch). Currently he is a researcher at the Media Lab Smart Cities Group, collaborating with his advisor William J. Mitchell on the General Motors/ Frank O. Gehry Concept Car. In parallel with Gehry Partners in Los Angles, he actively worked as an architect on the Brooklyn Atlantic Yards Project. During his time in Cambridge, he has been a Moshe Safdie and Associates research fellow, award winner and a Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability. He has also worked as an architect at Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners, and the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City. Mitchell has served as visiting faculty in sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work is published in "How Harvard would remake Atlanta," (Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2001), Michael Sorkin Studio: Wiggle (Monacelli Press, 1998), and "The Guru of Impossible Engineering Creates a Car," (Popular Science. 2004). His winning design of living structures—Fab Tree Hab—with Habitat for Humanity and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art has been honored with a nomination for the INDEX Award and exhibited internationally.