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face=Verdana><font color=#ff8000><strong> Welcome to the Talk on Biomimicry by Dr. Prateep Beed on
</strong><strong>Friday 27 June at 6.30 PM (in
English):</strong></font><br><br></font><font face=Verdana><font size=3><strong><em><font
color=#008000>Integrating Nature's elegant solutions into the design
process</font></em></strong><br></font><br><br><img
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src="cid:1612an$IN938014032757880@Margarita-PC"><br><font
size=1><em>Credit: Creative Commons</em></font><br><br><br></font>
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color=#ff0000><font color=#000000><font size=2 face=Verdana>Biomimicry is a
creative method for sustainable innovation and product design in today’s world.
The key concept of biomimicry is that Nature - during her 3.8 billion years of
existence and constant evolution - has solved most of our problems in very
elegant and clean ways: Nature masters energy production, water supply /
cleaning, food production, transportation, and cooperation - things we are
struggling with. <br><br>Biomimicry Germany e.V. is a team of
multi-disciplinary experts using Biomimicry as a creativity and innovation tool.
As such it creates novel solutions that are sustainable, more efficient and
cost-effective thereby spearheading an entirely new direction. It focuses on
design principles that have been tested by Nature for billions of years and
proven to be successful. It taps upon the huge potential of Nature's wisdom and
solution space using the genius surrounding us.<br><br>During the Talk Dr.
Prateep Beed will try to inspire you to look at nature with a different eye - as
a rich solution space for elegant designs with local adaptation combined with
efficient strategies for sustainable
innovations.<br><br></font></font></font><font color=#ff0000><font
color=#000000><font size=2 face=Verdana><em>Dr. Prateep Beed, Co-Founder
Biomimicry Germany e.V.<br></em>A bachelor’s
degree in Industrial Engineering helped Prateep Beed to learn the basics of
innovation & design. Soon he realized that machine design is far from
humanized design since prototypes often lack the individualism required to cater
to the needs of everyone yet at an individual level. He then pursued a master’s
degree in Cognitive Psychology & Neurosciences to better understand and
relate to the human mind. Prateep went on to complete his PhD in 2010 in
Neuroscience thematically focussing on spatial navigation & decision making.
In 2011, he was awarded the Tiburtius-Award for young investigators doing
exceptional research. In 2012, He co-founded of Biomimicry Germany, a
think-and-do-tank to foster sustainable innovation inspired by nature. At
present, he works as a senior research scientist at the Charité University
Medicine, Berlin.<br><br>The Talk takes place in the context of the ongoing
exhibition<em> [macro]biologies II: organisms</em> (<a
href="http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm">http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm</a>).<br>
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color=#000000><font size=2 face=Verdana>For more
information visit:
<br><a
href="http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-events-archive.htm"><em>http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-events-archive.htm</em></a><br><a
href="http://www.biomimicrygermany.de/"><em>http://www.biomimicrygermany.de/</em></a><br><em>
<br></em> </font></font></font><br><font size=2><font face=Verdana><img border=0
src="cid:1612an$IN818014032757881@Margarita-PC"><br><br><font
size=1>Regine Rapp, Christian de
Lutz<br></font></font></font><font size=1
face=Verdana>Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin<br> </font><font size=1
face=Verdana color=#000000><a
href="http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.orginfo@artlaboratory-berlin.org">www.artlaboratory-berlin.org</font><font color=#000000
size=1 face=Verdana><br></font><a
href="mailto:info@artlaboratory-berlin.org"><font size=1
face=Verdana>info@artlaboratory-berlin.org</font></a></a></p>
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