Project Haiti and Biomimicry Presentation by Thomas Knittle of HOK

For those of you interested in furthering the discussion we had at our last meeting on Project Haiti, Thomas Knittle of HOK will be presenting his work on Project Haiti as well as projects in other parts of the world.  Much of the talk will be about biomimicry, the creation of man-made environments that model, mimic and incorporate natural systems.

From HOK's event announcement:

HOK’s Thomas Knittel will deliver the University of Washington’s annual Sustaining Our World lecture at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4. His presentation, “Built Ecologies: Regionalism and Resource Integration in the Built World,” will discuss biomimicry and resilient design. Drawing on research and project examples from Brazil and Haiti to China, he will discuss how new design strategies and solutions, in order to be more resilient, must be integrated with sustainably produced regional resources—and how design informed by nature provides insights, from the nano to the macro, toward building a sustainable future locally and globally. The event, sponsored by the university’s College of the Environment and School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, is free, but advance registration is requested.  The lecture will be held in Kane Hall, Room 210, on the UW Seattle campus.  There is similar information on The School of Environmental and Forest Sciences blog.