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Ecomimicry Project
The Ecomimicry Project works creatively with the knowledge of local biologists, local conservationists and local artists to design technologies, landscapes and artworks that may foster sustainability.
Ecomimicry involves mimicking local animals and plants (or their ecological settings) to produce sustainable, eco-friendly, socially-responsible designs of technologies, landscapes and artworks.
The Ecomimicry Project has two study areas. The Great Southern coastal region of Western Australia and the Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern Europe. The aim is to draw inspiration from the unique ecology of one of these regions and then design technologies,landscapes and artworks based upon local wildlife and the local ecological settings.
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Designers worldwide are invited to contribute to The Ecomimicry Project by submitting designs for new technologies or artwork inspired by the living nature inhabiting the Great Southern region of Western Australia or the Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern Europe.
Whilst workshops are being offered on-site for students and conservationists in Western Australia and the Carpathian Mountains, you don't have to be living in Western Australia or Eastern Europe to contribute.
WHAT TO DESIGN?
Just about anything--it might be a product, a service, a landscape, an artwork, an agricultural setting; just as long as it is inspired by a Great Southern or Carpathian Mountain animal or plant or takes account of the local landscape in these regions..
This invokes the possibility of involvement from a plethora of disciplines: art and architecture, agriculture and forestry, ecology and biology, design and engineering, town planning and resource management. The final designs will be presented as two page spreads in a book to come out in 2008.
THE CO-ORDINATOR
Dr. Alan Marshall, a Research Fellow, is the coordinator of this project and is working from Curtin University of Technology (Australia) and Presov University (Slovakia). For 2007, he will be based in Presov University's Ecology Department.
www.geocities.com/ecomimicryproject
Ecomimicry involves mimicking local animals and plants (or their ecological settings) to produce sustainable, eco-friendly, socially-responsible designs of technologies, landscapes and artworks.
The Ecomimicry Project has two study areas. The Great Southern coastal region of Western Australia and the Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern Europe. The aim is to draw inspiration from the unique ecology of one of these regions and then design technologies,landscapes and artworks based upon local wildlife and the local ecological settings.
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
Designers worldwide are invited to contribute to The Ecomimicry Project by submitting designs for new technologies or artwork inspired by the living nature inhabiting the Great Southern region of Western Australia or the Carpathian Mountain region of Eastern Europe.
Whilst workshops are being offered on-site for students and conservationists in Western Australia and the Carpathian Mountains, you don't have to be living in Western Australia or Eastern Europe to contribute.
WHAT TO DESIGN?
Just about anything--it might be a product, a service, a landscape, an artwork, an agricultural setting; just as long as it is inspired by a Great Southern or Carpathian Mountain animal or plant or takes account of the local landscape in these regions..
This invokes the possibility of involvement from a plethora of disciplines: art and architecture, agriculture and forestry, ecology and biology, design and engineering, town planning and resource management. The final designs will be presented as two page spreads in a book to come out in 2008.
THE CO-ORDINATOR
Dr. Alan Marshall, a Research Fellow, is the coordinator of this project and is working from Curtin University of Technology (Australia) and Presov University (Slovakia). For 2007, he will be based in Presov University's Ecology Department.
www.geocities.com/ecomimicryproject
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