2025-05-23 –, Room 3 (n.o.t.k)
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?
Ever wondered how Hermit Crabs recycle materials? How Bats leverage cyclic processes? How Meer-cats cultivate cooperative relationships? Why the Artic Hare or Fox adapt to changing conditions or what biological champion builds from the bottom up? Why would mimicking these and other overarching patterns that life abides by, make sense? How could these strategies and mechanisms help us to live and work together in a multi-cultural and internationally diverse environment? Issues such as how to improve communication between culturally maintained beliefs, or perpetuated conflicts. Where might we learn from nature on how to approach this and many other issues we come across when working in internationally diverse groups?
Learning from Nature, learning how to implement strategies and mechanisms from Nature into solutions is an important part of Biomimicry Design. Reconnecting to this very same Nature is just as essential, as are the ethical decisions you make when working out a design aimed to contribute to the sustainability of the solution.
Come see how to learn some basic methods to implement natural strategies into your project, and fall in love with these mentors who teach you how. Join us for a biomimicry Design Jam workshops to practice the steps. Draw, read, research, design, fall in love and cultivate understanding relationships while doing so.
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.