USGBC Flatwater May Lunch

Design for Life: Lessons from Nature

What would our world look like if we rediscovered the lessons of nature? What if the places we live and work engaged our senses in a healthy way and celebrated culture with nature, encouraging human delight? How can a leaf inspire a solar cell? Or organizations learn from a tree or a coral reef? Biomimicry is an innovation method that seeks new ways of living sustainably—from new products and processes to policies—by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. Janine Benyus, the founder of biomimicry, introduces an era based not on what we can extract from organisms and their ecosystems, but on what we can learn from them. Instead of technology working separately from nature, imagine a world where technology is in relationship with nature. Biophilic design articulates the relationships between nature, human biology and the design of the built environment so we experience the natural environment more in our daily world. Academics, researchers and others have codified valuable design research for improving health and well-being in our built environment into patterns of biophilic design; Patterns “that nurture the innate human attraction to natural systems and processes.” Come learn how to bring nature back into our buildings, neighborhoods and lives.

Please joins us on Monday, May 18th at the UNO Community Engagement Center.

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