Dr. ir. Laura Lee Stevens
Dr.ir. Laura Lee Stevens holds two MSc degrees in the fields of Architecture from Delft University of Technology, and in Biomimicry from Arizona State University. She is a biomimicry design educator in her role as a senior researcher/lecturer in the Industrial Design Engineering program at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. A sustainable Design instructor since 2007, she completed her PhD in Delft, where she wrote a series of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the topic of Biomimicry Design Thinking Education as a methodology to enhance circular, systems-thinking solutions in design by learning from time-tested biological strategies and mechanisms found in nature. This was followed by a Postdoc on the same subject to develop the needed tools to and students to learn biomimicry more easily. She is a public speaker on this subject and has a passion to transfer this knowledge to others.
Session
This workshop is in English.
Biomimicry is a growing discipline that draws inspiration from nature to develop resilient, regenerative, and sustainable solutions to human challenges. Through Biomimicry Design Thinking—a framework for translating biological principles into design—we are rediscovering how to both apply and teach nature's design lessons. This approach combines Biomimicry Thinking with Design Thinking to explore the design challenge, identify nature’s existing solutions, generate ideas, and evaluate them to create innovative outcomes. Would you like to learn more?