LESSON 4.3: DESIGN STUDIO

Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Kick-Off

Have you heard?? (I know you have through this course!) There is an AMAZING opportunity for you (along with your team) to win $100,000 by creating a biomimetic design that can help to solve one aspect of a HUGE global challenge: CLIMATE CHANGE. This challenge is a fun way to get involved in helping to solve a serious, global issue facing humanity today. 

GET INVOLVED!! Links to an external site. All submissions are due April 30, 2017.

Did you know?

Members of a Chilean team who took this MOOC went on to become 3rd place finalists in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge in 2015. Learn about their BioNurse Links to an external site. design that they started to develop during week 4 of this MOOC.

Getting to this week's work...

This week's Design Studio will get you thinking about and playing with solving this worthy design challenge.

Watch this short video produced by the Biomimicry Institute (published in 2016) to get a brief overview of the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge: Climate Change.

Download Transcript for this video.

 

Read this Essential Information and Deadline Information Links to an external site. about the BGDC CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE.

Entries to the Climate Change challenge must:

  • Identify and solve a specific problem within the realm of climate change (that is a huge amount of possibilities!).
  • Intentionally emulate one or more mechanisms, processes, patterns, or systems found in nature.
  • Reduce the impact of climate change through a biomimetic design solution, whether from an environmental, social, or economic perspective—or ideally all three.

Submission deadline is April 30, 2017.

Review the essential rules and FAQs Links to an external site. that pertains to both the Open and Student categories, or learn more about the particulars of each category.

The material above is copied with permission from the Biomimicry Institute (published in 2016) to help promote the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge.