Biornametics. What is the Architect doing in the Jungle?

What is the Architect doing in the Jungle? Biornametics.
Barbara Imhof, Petra Gruber (eds.)

Book Presentation, March 18th, 2013

18.00 Welcome
Gerald Bast, Universität für Angewandte Kunst
David Marold, Springer Verlag

	Introduction to What is the architect doing in the jungle? Biornametics.
	Editors: Barbara Imhof, Petra Gruber

18.20 Panel introducing the follow-up project GrAB – Growing as Building
GrAB takes growth patterns and dynamics from nature and applies them to architecture with the goal of creating a new living architecture.

	Panelists:
	Julian Vincent, University of Bath, UK 
	Reiner Zettl, Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, A
	Barbara Imhof, LIQUIFER Systems Group, A
	Petra Gruber, EiABC Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Addis Ababa University, ET
	Dominika Glogowski, artEC/Oindustry, A (moderator)

19.15 Get together, drinks

Books will be for sale at the event.
Editors and authors will be present at the event.

What is the Architect doing in the Jungle? Biornametics.
Barbara Imhof, Petra Gruber (eds.)

How can architects and natural scientists collaborate in a fruitful dialogue that generates new insights for cross-disciplinary innovation? The book contributes to the current discussion of arts-based research by taking the example of the interdisciplinary research project BIORNAMETICS – Architecture Defined By Natural Patterns. Biornametics is an emerging contemporary design practice that explores a new methodology that interconnects scientific evidence and creative design in the field of architecture. The word biornametics is generated from “ornament”, referring to the famous Austrian architect Adolf Loos, and “biomimetics”. It is concerned with the detection of the principles behind processes of emerging and dissolving patterns in animate and inanimate nature. Reflections on the architectural direction of Biornametics, instances of the collaboration of arts and science and the application of the methodology show a diverse world of thoughts and approaches to the theme.