speakers

As we were advised we tried to get familliar with varied outlooks that might been related to our topic. Here are remarks:

JANINE BENYUS – science writer, innovation consultant

She's become one of the most important voices in a new wave of designers and engineers inspired by nature.

Nature processes can inspire humanity.

Organisms do what they do without destroing surrounding.

BIG IDEAS FROM BIOLOGY

1. Self assembly

2. CO₂ as a feedstock

3. Solar transformations

4. The power of shape

5. Quenching thirst

6. Metals without mining

7. Green chemistry

8. Timed degradation

9. Resilience and healing

10. Sensing and responding

11.Growing fertility

12. Life creates conditions conducive to life

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html

CRAIG VENTER - biologist and businessman

Famous for his work on genomes and been founder of Celera Genomics – commercial competition to Human Genome Research program. Both of them were working on sequencing human genome. Venter was using “shotgun sequencing technology” which finally turned out to be worse than method used by H.G.R.

Interested in creating synthetic genomes from scratch, running experiments on creating “operating system” that has minimal number of genomes.

Venter is working on organisms that produce hydrogen.

Transplantation of genomes.

Conbinatorial genomics.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/craig_venter_on_dna_and_the_sea.html

ROSS LOVEGROVE “Captain Organic” – industrial designer

Ross Lovegrove embraces nature as the inspiration for his "fat-free" design. Each object he creates -- be it bottle, chair, staircase or car -- is reduced to its essential elements. His pieces offer minimal forms of maximum beauty.

The power and beauty of organic design.

How form can touch people emotions?

DNA Design Nature Art

His pieces are made instinctively and many of them are inspired by evolution theory or microbiology. By observation, curiosity, and instinct people can make amaizing design.

Biological way of thinking.

Essential organic things. He doesn’t set up funky things, he set up natural forms.

Observations allows us to bring natural process into design process.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ross_lovegrove_shares_organic_designs.html

ROBERT FULL – biologist

Secrets of animal movement

Biology inspired design. Studies on gecko feet and cockroach legs and possibilities of it’s exploatation in technological world. Construction of a perfect robotic "distributed foot" by adding spines, hairs and other parts to metal legs. Result - scampering machine that can walk up the wall.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_full_on_animal_movement.html

PAOLA ANTONELLI – design curator at MoMA

Treats design as art.

Design and Elastic Mind.

Her main goal is to show and expain design to people. She shows not only beautiful but also functional and useful pieces.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paola_antonelli_treats_design_as_art.html

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/paola_antonelli_previews_design_and_the_elastic_mind.html

GREG LYNN – designer, architect

Greg Lynn have been pushing the edges of building design, by stripping away the traditional dictates of line and proportion and looking into the heart of what a building needs to be.

How calculus is changing architecture

Architecture doesn’t have to be proportional and symmetrical.

Teratology and genetics

- Genetics

- Generic

- Symmetry breaking

ARCHITECTURE’S ORGANIC QUALITIES:

- Holism: harmony, proportion and synthesis

- Signature: coherence of series rather than one

- Intricacy: relationship between massing, structure, envelope, apertures and decoration

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/greg_lynn_on_organic_design.html

introduction

What does „zoolution” stand for? It is a combination of two words: “zoo” and “evolution”, they perfectly describe aims of this thesis. The general idea is: to design a zoo or certain part of a zoo using mechanisms of nature. During this thesis we would like to go through genetics and evolution theory with it’s features such as: mutations, adaptation and natural selection. Gained information are to be translated in a way to be used in 3D modeling program to generate architectural or urban form. During work we would like to use tools like scripting and mathematical equations to generate geometry.
Final outcome will be created using mechanisms taken from nature but not mimicing nature itself. That allows us to produce something new. Form of the outcome is not set up yet and will be developed during work. At this step we don’t know if it will be facade, whole building or urban arrangement. We assume that during analysis part, application and method will “meet” each other to give best result and emerge into sustainable solution for architecture.
Apart from “form-finding” field of research, we would like to dig into topology of zoo. There are few aspects that could be rethinked…how does it work, how it’s form could be changed in order to make it more attractive and suitable for varied urban conditions nowadays. Relation “exhibit”-spectator is worth been analyzed to check how interaction between man and animal can shape such structure...