Ants can make zero waste, solar powered, sustainable architecture; how can we apply their ‘intelligence’ and 3.5 billion years of research and development to human focused, sustainable design? Join Michael Pawlyn, a pioneer of biomimetic architecture, and other prominent thinkers in this rapidly emerging area of design for this day of astounding talks and inspiring workshops.
Morning Session
Is biomimicry at the core of your design process? It could be. This session will show you the possibilities inherent in nature’s designs, explored through brilliant case studies and projects that have applied the design thinking of amazingly innovative and sustainable closed-loop solutions. Between the talks, an engaging workshop will encourage you to explore the relationship between design requirements and nature’s solutions, where sustainability is developed as an inherently critical characteristic of good design.
Confirmed subjects/speakers include:
- Title to be confirmed – Melissa Sterry, Founder and CEO of Societás
- Biomimicry and Architecture – Michael Pawlyn, Director of Exploration Architecture Ltd.
- Deeper Principles of Biomimicry – Julian Vincent, Professor of Biomimetics at the University of Bath, and Associate Chief Editor of the Journal of Bionic Engineering
Afternoon Session
Building on the knowledge established in the morning session the afternoon focuses on how design practitioners can practically applying nature’s design practice to human focused design requirements. The afternoon will mix discussion and feedback with an exploratory workshop exercise. Expect to take away new insights about systems thinking that will radically change the way you think about the potential of design to positively transform our world.
Confirmed subjects/speakers include:
- Title to be confirmed – Andy Middleton, Management Coach / Director: Thinking at Work
- Biomimicry Improvisation Exercise – Belina Raffy
- Systems-thinking workshop – Michael Pawlyn, Director of Exploration Architecture Ltd.
Additional speakers to be confirmed
N.B – Content of the day is subject to change
