Biomimicry: Sustainable Design and Innovation

General Price: $30.00
Member Price: $25.00
Students with a Current Student ID: Free

Biomimicry inspires innovative solutions to discover how we will:
* Harness energy
* Feed ourselves
* Design products
* Heal ourselves
* Conduct business and more

Designers, biologists, naturalists, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders are invited to join E4S and the BiomimiryNEO Network on March 16th to learn how to put biomimicry to work. We have invited Chris Allen, Director of the AskNature project at the Biomimicry Institute, to speak on how innovative strategies lead to more sustainable designs. At this event you will also hear from Doug Paige, the Associate Professor of Industrial Design at CIA and Jennifer Duda, CIA Industrial Design student on how they are applying biomimicry to solve challenges in the Cuyahoga Valley. Do not miss this opportunity to help us create the first regional Biomimicry Network in the world.

Chris Allen, Montana. Chris is director of the AskNature project at the Biomimicry Institute and serves on the management team for the expanded operations of the Biomimicry Guild and Institute. He is among the fifteen graduates of the first cohort of the Biomimicry Institute`s two-year professional program. Trained in International Business at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas (1985), Chris has over twenty years experience providing strategy and management consulting services related to sustainable development for a variety of private sector clients as well as the US Department of Energy, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, the Northwest Area Foundation, and the United Nations Man and Biosphere Program.


Doug Paige, Cleveland, is an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has helped further the legacy of one the most established industrial design programs in the country, founded by the late Viktor Schreckengost in 1933. Doug incorporated designing for sustainability into the curriculum in 2000 and Biomimicry in 2009. He also works as a design consultant for several companies in the NEO region.

For more information and to register please visit www.e4s.org