When: 2015.4.23 6:30~9:00 pm
Where: Arup Associates ,Shanghai.30th Floor, HuaiHai Plaza,HuaiHai Middle Road, Metro South Shaanxi Road ,Exit 8
Note: An entrance fee of ¥30 will be collected from all registered guests, while non-registered guests or those who show up at the door directly would be required to pay ¥50.
RSVP: Please send "name + email" to us , we will put you on the registered list.
Event Schedule
18.30 – 19.15: Registrations, Drinks and Networking
19.15 – 20.00: Event introduction and speaker presentations
20.00 – 20.30: Panel Discussion / Q&A
20.30 – 21.00: Drinks & Networking
Humans are extremely proficient at ensuring the survival of our own kind. But without intending to, we have put our future generations at risk by creating a huge mess of the environment.
Fortunately, solutions to these global challenges are all around us. Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.
The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. After billions of years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us has the secret to survival.
What are some of examples of biomimetic design? How big is biomimicry in China? What are the challenges faced by biomimetic design?
Speakers:Pius Leuba dit Galland 雷樸實
Subject: Pius presentation will talk about what is biomimicry - its philosophy, goals, essential elements, methodology, most famous examples and current extent and actors, as well as the work in Tongji’s Biomimetic Design Lab.
Background: A practicing architect, designer and sustainability consultant, Pius is teaching Environmental Design at TongJi University, Shanghai, School of Design and Innovation (D&I). For more than a decade he has researched, designed and taught in the realm of sustainable human environment. His current focus are urban ecology, biomimicry, sustainable materials, place-specific design, sustainable rural development projects, and sustainable mobility projects. Pius is director of the biomimetic design lab (http://bidl.tongji.edu.cn/) at D&I and instrumental in the creation of a Regional Biomimicry Network in China (BCN).
Francesca Galeazzi
Subject: Francesca will give a talk on the principles of applying biomimicry to form, process and system thinking in building design. She will illustrate how Arup has used biomimicry principles in some of its most innovative projects.
Background: Francesca Galeazzi is an architectural engineer with over 15 years' experience in sustainable development. She currently leads the sustainability team of Arup Associates in Shanghai. She has expertise in environmental sustainability strategies at urban and building scale, zero carbon projects, climate change adaptation and mitigation, urbanisation and social sustainability. She is a regular speaker at international conferences and forums on sustainable architecture and lectures at major Universities in Europe and China.
Patrick Riley
Subject: Patrick would be giving the first China exposure to a piece of research work Interface has commissioned, titled Human Spaces. It looks at the proven results from the use of
Biophilic Design in terms of human well being, and has been prepared by a distinguished team including renowned architects.
Background: Patrick is Senior Vice President at Interface Inc., the global market leader in modular floor coverings, and acknowledged visionaries in the application of sustainable business and manufacturing processes. Patrick assumed this role in July of 2008, with the goal of planning and executing the development of a new manufacturing base for the company, in China. In addition to the new plant, Interface has well-established sales and design teams operating from studios in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong along with a marketing group also based in Shanghai.
After a modest academic start in life, his own desire to continue learning led him to complete a degree in Marketing early in his career, whilst working. Having benefited from such opportunities himself, Patrick is now actively committed to the training and development of others.
Every once in a long while, we experience a period where new ideas, concepts, and technologies emerge that revolutionize the way the world works and fundamentally change the way we live.
From the invention of agriculture to that of the steam engine, each brought about momentous changes to human behavior and social structure. Most recently, the World Wide Web brought about the dot com boom which completely shaped life as we know it today.
We believe we are on the cusp of yet another socioeconomic revolution that will once again reshape the way we live and behave. Only this time, in stark contrast to previous occasions, we will be going in the opposite direction – going back closer to nature, not farther from it; using less of nature’s resources, not more; and using these resources with great prudence, not frivolity.
In the new Game Changer series, we will discuss a number of developments that we believe may bring about the next revolution. Some of these are already well-known, while others are nothing short of intriguing.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thanks all for your support. Wish to see you soon.
For any cooperation related, please contact sylargu@139.com
Have a good night.