Lydia Fraaije – What can we learn from Nature? Developing sustainable materials on the nano scale

Lydia Fraaije is a biomimicry and biophilic architect and has been running her office FRAAi architects since 2006. She is one of the founders of Bio^mi. Bio^mi is a collaboration of architects that together have the objective to bring biomimicry into practice by developing sustainable materials for the future inspired by biological nano structures. During the lecture you will receive an introduction to biomimicry and, on the basis of a number of inspirations from nature, you will gain insight into learning from nature results in the development of sustainable materials.