Biomimicry is an emerging discipline that seeks nature’s advice and brings diverse stakeholders together to create designs that emulate the way nature functions, not just the way it looks. The field itself is a multidisciplinary endeavor, yet biomimicry educators frequently work alone. Pedagogical methods …

Symposium in het kader van SDG Action Day (Sustainable Development Goals). Tijdens dit symposium was Jan van Boeckel de keynote speaker. Hij gaf een lezing, getiteld 'Mindful schizophrenia: Keeping one's sanity in face of the ecological emergency'. Daarna gaf hij een kleiworkshop met als titel 'Silent …

How art can help us in finding connections to the more-than-human world?

Our planet’s ecology and society are on a collision course, which manifests due to a contradiction in the assumptions of unlimited material growth fueling the linear economic paradigm. Our closed planetary ecosystem imposes confined amounts of space and a finite extent of resources upon its inhabitants. …