Greenbuild: Nature Inspired Material Innovation : Factory as Forest (08:00-10:00)

Start: 
Wed, 2016/10/05
Location: 
Los Angeles, LA

Nicole Miller is one of the workshop leaders.  This session will take place in an outdoor classroom.

What if we could produce products the way nature does? Products created through low energy processes powered entirely by the sun. Products made from naturally derived local inputs and manufactured within the water balance of nearby ecosystems. Products made in factories that enhance an ecosystem rather than degrade it. What if manufacturing and industrial production could have a positive impact on the environment and society? That is the vision of the Living Product Challenge, a new program that reimagines the design and manufacturing of all products to be as beautiful and functional as anything found in the natural world.

Manufacturing and Industrial production have long been the poster child for what is wrong with our current economic system. Products are made with huge amount of energy and toxic input sourced from a global synthetic industrial economy with immense impacts to human health and the environment. The sustainability industry has been focused on the incremental steps of reducing negative impacts through recycling, reducing consumption, and efficiency measures. While significant progress has been made, building products continue to have an outsized negative impact on human and environmental health.

Learning Objectives:

Evaluate case studies of products and companies that are challenging the current industrial paradigm to create products with truly net positive impact.

Outline how Biomimicry can be used as a framework for industrial production and manufacturing facility design.

Understand the Living Product Challenge and how the program helps meets the requirement of the Living Building Challenge and LEED

Explore how to implement the concept of Biomimicry and regenerative design in product design, manufacturing and material selection.

Learning Level:

  • Level 300 – Application/Implementation

Credits:

  • AIA Credit Hours:
  • 2 LU|HSW
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