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Design scientist Melissa Sterry is recognised as a world leading authority on the science, technology and thinking that could help build a brighter future. A design practice graduate, her career has been spent working with leading-edge researchers and practitioners worldwide, of which the past fifteen years have been at executive board-level. A recipient of several national and international innovation, creativity and enterprise awards, including the Mensa Education and Research Foundation International Award for enhancing intelligence that benefits society, Melissa is listed in the 'Libertine 100’ women with complex, beautiful and potentially world-changing ideas.
Her academic activities include visiting lecturer, visiting fellow, workshop host, Masters thesis supervisor, and guest critic at several leading European architecture and design research institutes, including The Bartlett, Ravensbourne, University of the Arts London, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, AA School of Architecture, and University of Salford. The culmination of a several-year transdisciplinary study at the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research laboratory [London], her recently submitted her PhD thesis posits the potential for developing urban resilience to wildfires and related natural hazard events through the creation of complex adaptive architectural systems that mimic the biochemistries, behaviours, and relationships of fire-adapted flora and fauna species.
Melissa is published in 60+ international scientific, industry and consumer journals, magazines, and books, including the Global Innovation Science Handbook, for which she authored the chapter on Biomimetics. Melissa has contributed as a scientific committee member, peer-reviewer, and editorial board member to several leading scientific, sustainability, and built environment journals, conferences, and societies. Her previous works include founding the award-winning sustainability think tank and collaborative laboratory Societás [2004 - 2010]; co-creating award-winning catalyst for rapid innovation in sustainable design, New Frontiers [2009 - 2010]; co-founding internationally renown visual arts awards, Creative Graduate Prize [2004-2010] and Iconique Societás Awards [2007-2010].
Her academic activities include visiting lecturer, visiting fellow, workshop host, Masters thesis supervisor, and guest critic at several leading European architecture and design research institutes, including The Bartlett, Ravensbourne, University of the Arts London, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, AA School of Architecture, and University of Salford. The culmination of a several-year transdisciplinary study at the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research laboratory [London], her recently submitted her PhD thesis posits the potential for developing urban resilience to wildfires and related natural hazard events through the creation of complex adaptive architectural systems that mimic the biochemistries, behaviours, and relationships of fire-adapted flora and fauna species.
Melissa is published in 60+ international scientific, industry and consumer journals, magazines, and books, including the Global Innovation Science Handbook, for which she authored the chapter on Biomimetics. Melissa has contributed as a scientific committee member, peer-reviewer, and editorial board member to several leading scientific, sustainability, and built environment journals, conferences, and societies. Her previous works include founding the award-winning sustainability think tank and collaborative laboratory Societás [2004 - 2010]; co-creating award-winning catalyst for rapid innovation in sustainable design, New Frontiers [2009 - 2010]; co-founding internationally renown visual arts awards, Creative Graduate Prize [2004-2010] and Iconique Societás Awards [2007-2010].
By applying resilience theory, biomimicry, and living architecture principles to every aspect of building, she [Melissa Sterry] is creating a city model that not only anticipates but welcomes intensifying natural phenomena. |
Melissa's ambitious projects aim to create the kinds of change that could plausibly help us out of some of the most serious environmental challenges we face as a society. A rare combination of a visionary perspective with excellent organisational and networking skills. |
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