Workshop: Building from Nature´s Blueprint: How to harness the potential of 3.8 billion years of research and development

The design paradigm of the 20th Century has become defunct, as a myriad of environmental changes simultaneously take effect. What worked yesterday often fails to work today. Nature is adept at responding to change and embeds a degree of resilience into its technologies and infrastructure that is rarely witnessed in man-made design, engineering and construction. In nature only best in breed design solutions sustain; that which is not either evolves or becomes extinct. Building from Nature´s Blueprint will explore how architects, engineers and planners can learn lessons from nature and transfer knowledge from ecosystems, including rainforests and savannahs, to plans for future sustainable cities.