A host of environmental challenges await us, and what we today see as “sustainable” will perhaps not be sufficient tomorrow. Perhaps the sustainable future – robust, resilient, resource friendly and life-giving – will lie in the elegant solutions that nature has come up with in 3,8 billion years?
In the new and innovative discipline of biomimicry solutions are sought to problems in architecture and design by imitating nature in form, process and system. The result is ecological, efficient in use of resources and strikingly beautiful.
The architect Arkitekt Anna Maria Orru is the seminar’s project leader. She has more than twelve years’ experience in sustainable architecure with biomimicry behind her, mainly in research spells in the UK. USA and Sweden. She has worked with Ove Arup, Grimshaw Architects and Shigeru Ban and in this seminar she has with her some of the leading actors in this field, including her past-colleague Michael Pawlyn, Bio-designer Rachel Wingfield, market consultant Saskia van den Muijsenberg, textile-designer Carole Collet and the biologist Fredrika Gullfot..
