Nina -
You should go through the mailbase archive (accessible in the biomimetics
area of JISCmail.ac.uk) and find Steve Vogel's message with the attachments.
If you look further back you'll find more information about teaching
biomimetics. If you're setting up a design centre, can I suggest that you
consider incorporating TRIZ into your plans, since this is probably one of
the most promising ways of moving design concepts between disciplines?
Julian Vincent
Quoting Nima Motamedi <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hey Barry,
> I am an industrial design student in Toronto and I putting together a
> proposal for a Biomimetic Industrial Design Research Centre at my school
OCAD
> (Ontario College of Art and Design). I have only recently became a member
to
> this message board so I dont know exactly the nature of your request. I if
> can trouble you with reiterating what research material you are looking
for
> maybe I can help. From what I can gather you are putting together a
course
> on biomimetics?
> Part of the proposal I am writing includes a Graduate Program for
biomimetics
> & design and I foresee that I might have to write a few courses in this
> regard. We might be able to help each other here.
> Also, I have read your article for ID magazine on Biomimicry and other
works
> for IDSA. Given your knowledge in both fields of design and biomimetics I
> would greatly appreciate any knowledge and ideas that we can share with
each
> other on how to incorporate biomimetics into design education.
> Bye for now,
> Nima Motamedi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Barry Katz
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:54:32 -0800
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Student practical classes
>
>
>
>
> Thank you, Steve -- If I had it all to do over again I would very likely
veer
> off in this fascinating direction. I guess that's what students are for.
> This course looks like it provides an extraordinary experience. Can I
assume
> it's alright for me to circulate it among some of my Industrial Design
> colleagues, a number of whom are trying to figure out how to put the
science
> to good use?
>
>
> Although the context of my earlier inquiry was a journalistic piece for a
> design magazine, I'm thinking now about a more academic review essay on
> Biomimicry for the scholarly journal, Technology and Culture, with which
I'm
> affiliated. I recall that you apprised me of your (forthcoming?) book --
can
> you give me a detail or two? And any other reasonably current books you
can
> recommend that would be accessible to an academic but non-specialist
> readership would be much appreciated. In your copious spare time, of
> course.
>
>
> Have a good holiday, and thanks for the syllabus, which did not, as you
see,
> get the two-stroke treatment.
>
>
> Barry Katz
> Consulting Professor
>
>
> Hi -
>
> I just ran across your supplication again; in case it might be
> useful, I'm sending along a couple of files. In case it isn't
> useful, a couple of keystrokes settles the matter.
>
> Steve Vogel
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