We invite you to celebrate the launch of the new Biomimicry Center, a joint partnership between Arizona State University and Biomimicry 3.8.
Please join us for a half-day of presentations, conversations and performances about the power of nature to inspire innovative collaborations and create sustainable solutions for global challenges.
Schedule
1:00 Welcome
1:15 Dayna Baumeister
Professor of Practice, School of Life Sciences
Co-Director, The Biomimicry Center
Co-Founder, Biomimicry 3.8Darren Petrucci
Suncor Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The Design School1:35 Juergen Gadau
Professor, School of Life Sciences
Associate Director for Graduate Studies, School of Life Sciences
Associate Director of Educational Programs, The Biomimicry CenterPrasad Boradkar
Professor and Director of InnovationSpace, The Design School
Co-Director, The Biomimicry Center1:55 Michelle Fehler
Lecturer, The Design SchoolMike McBeath
Professor, Department of Psychology2:15 Breakout activities
2:45 Everett Shock
Professor, School of Earth and Space ExplorationEd Kavazanjian
Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment3:05 Hanna Breetz
Assistant Professor, School of SustainabilityDevens Gust
Foundation Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry3:25 Ted Pavlic
Research Scientist, School of Life Sciences
Associate Director of Research, The Biomimicry CenterSpring Berman
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy3:45 Breakout activities
4:15 Jennifer Fewell
President’s Professor, School of Life SciencesShade Shutters
Research Scientist, Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development4:35 Ximin He
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and EnergyAndrea Richa
Associate Professor, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering4:55 Simon Ortiz
Regents Professor, Department of EnglishJoni Adamson
Professor, Department of English5:15 Symposium Summary
5:30 Reception
6:00 Janine Benyus
Partner and Co-founder, Biomimicry 3.86:15 6:30 Janine Benyus
Partner and Co-founder, Biomimicry 3.8Michael M. Crow
President, Arizona State University6:45 7:00 Q&A
7:15 The Amyloid Project
A collaboration between the Phoenix-based arts collective urbanSTEW; Jessica Rajko, assistant professor in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre; and physicist Sara Vaiana, assistant professor in the Department of Physics.
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), a new class of proteins discovered in the 1990s, have attracted much scientific interest. Because they do not fold into well-defined three-dimensional structures, IDPs have a high degree of flexibility that allows them to bind with many different kinds of biological partners. This plasticity sometimes leads to the formation of aggregations that prevent IDPs from carrying out essential biological functions, causing diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and diabetes.
Working at the intersection of art and biophysics, “The Amyloid Project” explores the molecular choreography of intrinsically disordered proteins and makes visible their actions deep within the human body.
Forest
A composition by Garth Paine, professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and School of Music.
This musical composition is part of a series of works that Garth Paine describes as “improvised conversations” with nature. In “Forest,” Paine plays a flute with the pre-recorded calls of birds and frogs. The sounds are electronically reprocessed in a kind of real-time call and response, an example of what he says is an “ongoing inquiry into the ways in which we converse with nature on a daily basis.”
7:30 Close