Global Climate Geodesign Challenge

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This talk will look at two related programs at the Minnesota Design Center: one involving the development of tools to calculate the reductions of atmospheric carbon of our land-use decisions and another involving the establishment of a biomimetics organization to connect industry and the academy around nature-inspired design solutions. 

Prof. Thomas Fisher is director of the Minnesota Design Center, and Dayton Hudson Chair in Urban Design in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. Recognized in 2005 as the fifth most published writer about architecture in the United States, Fisher has written 9 books, over 50 book chapters or introductions, and over 400 articles in professional journals and major publications. Named a top-25 design educator four times by Design Intelligence, he has lectured at 36 universities and over 150 professional and public meetings. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. His latest book, Designing our Way to a Better World (Minnesota) came out in 2016. He will present an interesting talk on "Changing Geography by Design."