Patterns In Nature

Patterns In Nature

Curt McNamara and WG members

Abstract

This session will cover primary materials that summarize patterns in nature. It will then ask participants to help select a subset of these patterns, and start the process of defining these with text descriptions (ala Christopher Alexander's pattern language approach)

Bio

Curt McNamara is a bio-inspired design educator. He is co-chair of the INCOSE Natural Systems working group on natural systems, and is a fellow of the Biomimicry Institute. His past work includes the Systems Explorer (part of the Biomimicry ToolBox at the Biomimicry Institute), and articles on Buckminster Fuller in Zygote Quarterly. He teaches sustainable design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. For several decades Curt was a practicing design engineer, and received the IEEE Millennium medal for his work in education.