Are there any degrees in biomimicry? Who's teaching it?
Aquinas College, Center for Sustainability
Biomimicry is utilized as a foundation text in the "Industrial Ecology" course taught by Matthew Tueth and a required course in Sustainable Business. Deborah M. Steketee has also utilized biomimicry in a management level Industrial Ecology course. Contact: Deborah M. Steketee, Executive Director, Center for Sustainability
Auburn University, College of Architecture, Design and Construction
Auburn offers a third year interior architecture studio that is working with InterfaceFLOR and David Oakey on designing a new InterfaceFLOR Customer Service Center. Contact: Sheri Schumaker
The Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability (BIONIS)
To promote the application of Biomimetics (Design Inspired by Nature) in products and services and its use in education and training.Contact: Jo Lakeland, BIONIS co-ordinator
California College of the Arts
The College offers a course entitled "Applied Biology for Designers and Artists". The goal of the course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of biology and relate these concepts directly to design and artistic work using the field of biomimicry. Contacts: Tom McKeag, David Hammond, Suzanne Redding
California State University - Northridge , Biology
Janet Kubler teaches an on-line course called "Biology Taught Functionally". Contacts: Janet Kubler
Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID)
CBID staff drawn from two institutes (Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory), five colleges (College of Engineering, College of Science, College of Architecture, Ivan Allen College, and College of Computing) and 14 schools. CBID is developing undergraduate and graduate programs in biologically inspired design at Georgia Tech. Contacts: Jeannette Yen Professor, School of Biology, Marc Weissburg Associate Professor, School of Biology, Craig Tovey Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mohan Srinivasarao Associate Professor, School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Milwaukee Institute of Arts & Design
Contact: John Caruso
Minneapolis College of Arts and Design
Offers an on-line course called "Biomimicry for Designers" taught by Dayna Baumeister of The Biomimicry Guild. Contact: Curt McNamara
Onondaga Community College
Kevin Stack teaches an ecological building course based on biomimicry.Contact: Kevin Stack
Southern California Institute of Architecture - Design Studio
Ilaria Mazzoleni (faculty) is teaching a course called Biomimicry: Innovation in Architecture Inspired by Nature (AS3304 [1]. Contact: Ilaria Mazzoleni
Stanford University, Bio-X
The Stanford University Bio-X program supports, organizes, and facilitates interdisciplinary research connected to biology and medicine. The program operates across the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Earth Sciences and the School of Law. Contact: Heideh Fattaey, Director of Bio-X Programs & Operations
State University of NY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Kevin Stack teaches an ecological building course based on biomimicry. Contact: Kevin Stack
University of California at Berkeley, Bioengineering
Biomimetic Engineering: Engineering from Biology. This graduate course, taught in the Mechanical Engineering Department, is cross-listed with Berkeley's Integrative Biology Department and the Bioengineering Department. Contact: Hari Dharan Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Berkeley Composites Laboratory
University of California at Berkeley, Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Education and Research
The Center for Integrative Biomechanics in Education and Research will lead the development of a new field of Integrative Systems Biomechanics and train the next generation of integrative biologists. To extract principles in biology that inspire novel design in engineering and train the next generation of scientists and engineers to collaborate in mutually beneficial relationships. Contact: Robert Full, Director
University of Maryland, Mechanical Engineering Department
Developing Mechanical Engineering undergraduate curriculum to cover the design and manufacturing technologies and analysis principles that are needed to develop bioinspired products and devices.Contact: Hugh Bruckor Satyandra Gupta
University of Minnesota, College of Design
Contacts: Marc Swackhamer, Assistant Professor of Architecture, John Carmody, Director, Center for Sustainable Building Research
University of Montana, Environmental Studies
Cindy Gilbert from the Biomimicry Institute is teaching "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature", fall 2007. Contact:Cindy Gilbert
University of New Mexico, School of Architecture
Teaching biomimicry as part of a course called Sustainable Design. The students conduct a biomimic design project using the local ecosystem to inform their design solutions. Contact: Kris Callori
University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Architecture, College of Architecture and the Arts
Contact:Elva Rubio, Assistant Professor
And in that case, are there any classes in graphic design that introduce the idea of biomimicry?
2 comments:
hey alison
I am actually on my last edit (about to print out the paper right now, coincidentally) of a semester-long investigation/paper on biomimicry and the design process. I'm more interested in product design, but the paper is pretty broad and defines functional biomimicry as well as identifying key process steps of the collaborative groups often behind biomimicry.
So how weird that I stumbled upon your page here at the tail end? I'm an junior at UNC Chapel Hill.Do you want to talk sometime or exchange email or something? I was thinking about doing my thesis on a similar thing, but in product design. Plus I have tons of cool stuff for you about biomimicry that nobody enjoys as much as me. It's just too much of a coincidence not to ask.
Jamie
Hi Everyone,
I teach at the University of Akron and am working with other faculty to propose an MFA in Biomimicry to complement our new PhD in Biomimicry. I would like to see what other schools have done in terms of curriculum and to see if there are job opportunities for graduates with the MFA in Biomimicry.
Donna Webb
Myers School of Art
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