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From sunflowers to silence! 🌻 Sunflowers could soon be at the forefront of noise reduction technology, thanks to an upcoming research project led by A&A's Professor Ed Habtour from the ILLIMITED LAB. Key highlights: - $500,000+ NSF grant awarded to UW and SUNY Buffalo - Research will aim to develop innovative noise reduction solutions - Inspired by the Fibonacci spiral arrangement of sunflower seeds - Will target harmful noise in the 200-2000 Hz range - Potential future applications in buildings, vehicles, and public spaces This interdisciplinary team, including Prof Tomas Mendez Echenagucia from UW's Department of Architecture, and Prof Edmund Seto from the School of Public Health, and SUNY-Buffalo's Mostafa Nouh, isn't just setting out to push scientific boundaries. They're also planning to address social justice by working with disadvantaged communities disproportionately affected by noise pollution. We're excited to see what Prof. Habtour and the entire team will discover! Their work could potentially revolutionize how we combat noise pollution and improve quality of life for millions. #NatureInspiredDesign #SustainableDesign Read the story and access the latest research: https://lnkd.in/g5nt3yDZ

Cultures of Regeneration Humboldt University, Berlin, DE The Cluster »Matters of Activity« aims to create a basis for a new culture of materials. The central vision of the Cluster is to rediscover the analog in the activity of images, spaces and materials in the age of the digital. Biology and technology, mind and material, nature and culture intertwine in a new way. In this context, the interdisciplinary research and development of sustainable practices and structures is a central concern in areas such as architecture and soft robotics, textiles, materials and digital filters, and surgical cutting techniques. Rapidly increasing socio-ecological damage and the urgent need for care, repair and recovery has led to renewed calls for regenerative design as a means of wayfinding towards new forms of just and sustainable life on earth, prompting critical questions concerning the reconfigured pasts they invoke to the possible futures they open up. Aiming to (re)design the way we live to support the functioning of natural ecosystems, regenerative systems thinking is being applied to fundamental fields of human activity, from food production and agriculture to textiles, architecture, rural revival and the urban built environment to other-worldy materialities. Thursdays until 11th July 2024 »Matters of Activity« and the Department of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt-University Berlin Read More: https://lnkd.in/dvwGBvj2 #sustainability #regeneration #material #culture #urbanism

Biophilia Bill Browning of Terrapin Bright Green discusses the growing impact of nature in design. Leading a paradigm shift in design and the built environment, biophilia gains even greater momentum as an antidote to our increasingly tech-centric world. Learn how biophilic design provides a distinct advantage over conventional design practices by recognizing the scientific evidence connecting human biology and high-performance design. Watch the full session on EDOnline and explore more content through the link in our bio! #Sustainability #HospitalityDesign #NEWH #EDOnline #LearnFromTheBest #HospitalityInnovation #WatchNow

Biophilia Bill Browning of Terrapin Bright Green discusses the growing impact of nature in design. Leading a paradigm shift in design and the built environment, biophilia gains even greater momentum as an antidote to our increasingly tech-centric world. Learn how biophilic design provides a distinct advantage over conventional design practices by recognizing the scientific evidence connecting human biology and high-performance design. Watch the full session on EDOnline and explore more content through the link in our bio! #Sustainability #HospitalityDesign #NEWH #EDOnline #LearnFromTheBest #HospitalityInnovation #WatchNow

One of the focus areas for the Design School is to nurture learning exchanges between bioregions as they learn how to organize themselves in service to life. This includes the vital flows of resources and energy that make life possible. Right now, the term bioregional finance has become a buzzword with many people using it in different ways to mean differnt things. What we need is a clarity and robustness in our understandings of how life flourishes at the bioregional scale and why this matters for how we organize how we relate to the diverse flows of value that sustain life at landscape-system scales. In this session, we will introduce the Earth Regeneration Fund as a web of relationships gathered around a shared narrative. The story itself has many voices and will take many forms. Yet it will be intended to serve the flourishing of life within and across bioregions so that true collaboration becomes possible to move up to continental and planetary scales. Join us in the Design School if you would like to attend: https://lnkd.in/guvJkrgm

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗔 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡 𝗟𝗔𝗕 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧: 𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗗 🐸 Did you know that #Wetlands cover only around 6% of the Earth’s land surface, but 40% of all plant and animal species live or breed in these environments? Meet BIOPOD Co., one of eight recently announced winners of our 2024 global design competition, inspired by our guiding mandate the Terra Carta, which invites students to design high-impact solutions to address the damage being done to the planet. 💧 BIOPOD features human‑scale ecosystem modules designed to remediate water quality, reintroduce vital fringe marshes into urban environments, and engage the public in citizen science. The BIOPOD system includes the pods, education and training, a digital hub, and support stations. Congratulations to the winners from Rhode Island School of Design - Co-founders Manini Banerjee and Avantika Velho, and the team of Malvika Agarwal, Skylar Perez and Joel Yong. See all the winners of the 2024 Terra Carta Design Lab on our website https://lnkd.in/eDix5eyT #biodiversity #wetlands #climate #sustainability #water

But building new is not always the best option - environmentally and otherwise. In this post, lab designers at NBBJ Design explore three strategies (with case studies) to reposition aging academic science /laboratory buildings. #science #labdesign #academicscience #sustainability #ideas #highered

Do you need help identifying invasive species in your garden and knowing what to do with them? I do. 👩🏽🌾 Showcasing another student project. 📱 A mixed reality (MR) application that tells you about each invasive species and how to deal with it - see the video 🌿 Prototype by David Widerberg, Björn Sennvall and Oscar Fredriksson, students in our course on #ResponsiveEnvironments for #sustainability 🌎 👥Fellow teachers from the media technology and sustainability departments at Blekinge Institute of Technology: Linus de Petris, Varvara Nikulina, Nils Rydh, Daniel Nilsson and Markus Fiedler. Detailed poster in comments. #MixedReality #SustainableComputing #SustainableMediaTechnology #BehaviourChangeForSustainability

Abundance 4 ALL - News https://wix.to/8k7zROm For all who want to know more about regeneration, biomimicry, growing macro-economies by density, technology, and living systems design. What are living systems? An economy, a building, a body, an infrastructure, and even material science nowadays. Biomimetics covers it ALL - and our aim its to create many new systemic designers in all sectors. Just by interconnections...

Can design be good, if it does not consider all of the key environmental, ethical, social and economic impacts throughout the life cycle? The answer is no.  Welcome to our Seven Foundations of Good Design. #Regenerative #Human #Sufficiency #Equitable #FutureProof #Circular #Nature #GoodDesign #AuthenticLeadership Jude Sherry Frank O'Connor https://lnkd.in/evS-Gpd7