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Nature Inspired Creative Design - Exhibition and Talks, 13th to 16th September 2006

Designing for the 21st Century


Photos from the exhibtion opening are now available at http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~txs/NICD/webPhotos/ (external link)



Nature is the 'ultimate' designer - designs in nature are more robust, resource efficient, scalable, and beautiful, than anything human designers can create. 'Nature Inspired Creative Design' is a research network that brings together people from a variety of backgrounds, including Art, Design, Engineering, Computer Science and Biology, to explores how ideas from Nature can be used to improve human Art and Design activities.

Our exhibition features work from a number of network members and invited guests. From Roboshark to immune-system based interactive art, and evolved jewellery, each exhibits interprets the idea of 'Nature Inspired Design' in a different way.
The approaches behind the work are explored in an accompanying series of hour long talks, which are aimed at a general audience.

The Research Network, and this event, is funded by the Arts and Humanities and the Engineering and Physical Sciences research councils (AHRC and EPSRC) under the 'Designing for the 21st Century' Program. The network is run by Cercia (external link), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham; the event is hosted by the VRU (external link) at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD).

The exhibition launch is at 5pm, on Wednesday the 13th of September. The exhibition is open for the public thursday to saturday 10am to 4pm; talks take place thursday and friday 11am to 6pm. Location is the School of Art, Margaret Street (external link), Birmingham City Centre.

You can download an eletronic invitation (external link), please fell free to forward it to anyone you think might be interested.





Swarm Painters (Paul Nuytten; Supervisors: Christian Jacob and Gerald Hushlak)

Creatures (Thomas Miconi, Supervisor Alastair Channon)

SwarmCreator (Scott Novakowsky; Supervisors: Christian Jacob and Gerald Hushlak)




Deniflex (Jon McCormack)

Fugue (Gordana Novakovic and Peter Bentley)

Pulse (Sandra Wilson, Bernard de Bono and Jivan Astfalk)





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