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Guest speaker Chris Allen is slated to present at the Cleveland Institute of Art this coming Tuesday on biomimicry and what’s needed from local biologists (researchers, faculty and students) to make the discipline of biomimicry come to life in Northeast Ohio. He comes very highly recommended.

Allen is a part of the Biomimicry Institute. I have had the privilege of studying with their co-founders Janine Benyus and Dana Baumeister in Peru and Cleveland. Their organization is doing spectacular work with companies and institutions all over the world bringing biologists and related disciplines to the design table, integrating biomimicry into college curriculum and engaging biologists in real world problem solving (vaccine preservation to airplane structure to green building to urban design). They are increasing the need to have biologist consult on a wide variety of innovative projects, including several in Northeast Ohio. There are real opportunities to have faculty and students from Northeast Ohio colleges participate in some of this work.

Designers, biologists, naturalists, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders will all find something of interest in the talk.

See links below for event details, the Biomimicry Institute, their Ask Nature tool and the local biomimicry networking group facilitated by E4S.

We changed Student Pricing. The program is FREE for Students with Current ID

E4S national speaker events have a great reputation, great networking, top-notch speakers. There is an event fee for faculty and other attendees but you receive two free Great Lakes Brewing Company beer tickets to sweeten the deal. Students get in free of charge with a current student ID, but because of spring break schedules not many are aware of this event. Please help bring this opportunity to their attention.

Thank you so much and we hope to see you at the event.

Victoria Avi

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Biomimicry: Sustainable Design and Innovation
E4S Third Tuesday Network Event / National Speaker
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
SPECIAL LOCATION: Cleveland Institute of Art - Russel B. Aiken Auditorium (Directions http://www.cia.edu/about/visitingCia/visiting.php)

The program is FREE for Students with Current ID

Register online: http://www.e4s.org/content/eventdetail.asp?id=502

Bio•mimicry (http://www.biomimicryneo.org/page/what-is-biomimicry)- from Greek bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate - is a design discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems. 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 theBiomimicry NEONetwork on March 16th to learn how to put biomimicry to work. We have invited Chris Allen, Director of the AskNature (http://www.asknature.org/) project at the Biomimicry Institute (http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/), 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.