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SUMMARY:Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design - Michael Pawlyn\, 
 Exploration Architecture
DTSTART:20150220T173000Z
DTEND:20150220T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nBiomimicry – A new paradigm in sustainable desig
 n\n\nMost people now accept the case for sustainability and many wonder ho
 w the debate will move forward over the next few decades. Some commentator
 s have asserted that biomimicry will be one of the main design tools that 
 facilitate the shift from the industrial age to the ecological age of mank
 ind. This rapidly emerging discipline draws on a sourcebook of solutions t
 hat have benefitted from a 3.8 billion year research and development perio
 d. \n\nIn this talk Michael Pawlyn will outline what biomimicry is as a de
 sign discipline and then describe a number of projects that illustrate wha
 t can be achieved by using biological adaptations as a source of inspirati
 on. He will present a new concept for an office building\, a radical desig
 n for a data centre that uses a fraction of the energy of conventional app
 roaches and the ambitious Sahara Forest Project. The last of these is a sc
 heme that brings together a cluster of synergistic technologies in desert 
 areas and offers the potential to grow crops in some of the most water-str
 essed parts of the world while generating clean energy and reversing deser
 tification.\n\nBiography\n\nMichael Pawlyn has been described as a pioneer
  of biomimicry and established Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus e
 xclusively on this emerging discipline. In 2008 the company was short-list
 ed for the Young Architect of the Year Award and the internationally renow
 ned Buckminster Fuller Challenge. He jointly initiated the Sahara Forest P
 roject and is a Founding Partner of Sahara Forest Project AS – a company
  established to deliver concrete initiatives for restorative growth\n\nPri
 or to setting up Exploration Michael Pawlyn worked with Grimshaw for ten y
 ears and was central to the team that radically re-invented horticultural 
 architecture for the Eden Project. He was responsible for leading the desi
 gn of the Warm Temperate and Humid Tropics Biomes and the subsequent phase
 s that included proposals for a third Biome for plants from dry tropical r
 egions. \n\nHe has lectured widely on the subject of sustainable design in
  the UK and abroad and in May 2005 delivered a talk at the Royal Society o
 f Arts with Ray Anderson\, CEO of Interface. In 2007 Michael Pawlyn delive
 red a talk at Google’s annual ‘Zeitgeist’ conference and\, in 2011\,
  became one of only a small handful of architects to have a talk posted on
  TED.com. His TED talk has since had over a million viewings. In the same 
 year\, his book Biomimicry in Architecture was published by the Royal Inst
 itute of British Architects. Exploration is currently working on a range o
 f biomimicry-based architectural projects and a book commissioned by TED.\
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LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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