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Lectures 

2019 >
ECETOC Board & Scientific Committee, Brussels [1]
Toyota Europe headquarters, Brussels [2]
University College of Estate Management, London [3] 
Canadian Institute of Planners conference
, Ottawa [4]
Cityx: The Future of Connected Places, London [5]

Sherborne Girls' Back to Nature day, Dorset [6]
University of Greenwich, Alumni Lecture [7]


2018
5x15 at Wilderness Festival, Oxon [1]
Understanding Risk conference, Belgrade [2]

2017 
Monument Masterclass, London [1]
Intelligent Spaces, London Design Festival [2]


2016
BioSalon, Abmika P3, London [1]
Interface, Manchester [2]
​Sheppard Robson, Manchester [3]
Architecture Conference & Expo, Cluj-Napoca [4]
London Design Biennale [5]
Vision London: Future of the Built Environment [6]
BioChanges, Royal College of Art, London [7]
Edinburgh International Science Festival [8]
WILD: Renaturing the City, London [9]


2015
​Festival of Future Cities, Bristol [1, 2, 3]
VII. BioEngineering Congress, Izmir [4]

Clerkenwell Design Week, London [5]
TEDxLSE, London School of Economics [6]
2014
Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge [1]
Ravensbourne, Greenwich Peninsula, London [2]
Sustainability Challenges, CIOB, Coventry [3]
Inventing the Future, Royal Society, London [4]
Urban Morphogenesis, The Bartlett, London [5]
The Future of Energy conference, Warwick [6]


2013
Re:Work Cities Summit, London [1]
Homes: The Future of Housing, London [2]
Oslo Architecture Triennale, Oslo [3]
Manchester International Festival [4]
Write the Future conference, Royal Society [5]

2012
Ignition: The Future of Digital, New York [1]
Natures at Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire [2]
The Future We Choose book launch, London [3]
The Future We Want: A New Paradigm, London [4]
Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia [5] 
Ecobuild: seminar sessions, Excel, London [6]
CIOB lecture 'Future Design to 2050', Salford [7]
2011
Tomorrow’s Natural Business conference, London [1]
World Congress on Sustainable Technologies [2]
CRG Exchange Seminar, London [3]
Int' Bionic Engineering Conference, Boston [4]
Forum for the Built Environment, Liverpool [5]
Lunchtime Lecture, NSG Group, Lathom Labs [6]
School of Art & Design, University of Salford [7]
EcoBuild conference, Excel, London [8]
Sci-Fi London Film Festival, London [9]


2010
European Future Energy Forum, London [1]
Postgraduate Annual Research Conference, Salford ​[2]



Workshops

Natures tent, Wilderness Festival, Oxon, 2012 [1]
World Congress on Sustainable Technologies, 2011 [2]
​
Salford Postgraduate Annual Research Conference,  2010 [3]

Presentations

2019 >
[1] 'Through a Landscape Looking Glass: Journeys through Space and Time'
[2] 'Brave New Biological World: Where Human and Non-Human Systems Meet'
[3] 'Places Beyond: Future cities past, present, and possible'

[4] '[Re]Generation[s]: Once in many lifetimes opportunities'
[5] Human Dot to Non-Human Dot: Connecting Human Places to Abiotic and Biotic Systemic Spaces
[6] Nature 360
°: Back to our Nature Future
[7] 'Finding a Way: The Rise of Living Design, Technology, and Engineering'
​

2018
[1] 'Wildfire in the Wilderness: Wildfire, Ecology and Us'
[2] 'At the Interface: Where planetary and human systems meet'


2017
[1] 'Nature in the City'
[2] 'Biome Shock! Anthropogenic vs. Ecological Intelligence'


2016
[1] ‘Biome Shock! Ecological Intelligence'
[2] ‘Bioaesthetics: Biology’s Visual Narrative’
[3] ‘BioFutures: Building with Biology’

[4] ‘Bioarchitectural Futures: Biology as model, metaphor and medium in architecture’
[5] ‘Biotopia: Towards a Biological Ideal’
[6] ‘Biodesigned Building Futures: Biology as model, metaphor, and medium in our cities’
[7] ‘The Nature of Resilience: Biomimetic Built Environments’
[8] ‘Building Biotopia: An Ecologically Smart City’
[9] ‘Anthropomorphic meets Animal Architecture’


2015
[1] 'Nature Rich Cities'
[2] 'What Happened to Utopian Cities?'
[3] 'Bionic City: how would nature design a city?'

[4] ‘Building Brighter Futures with Biomimetics’
[5] 'Social Architectures: Learning from the Lessons of the Past’
[6] ‘Biological & Social Networks in Cities’
2014
[1] 'Bionic City: where science meets fiction'
[2] 'Designing Biologically Informed Systems: Biomimetic, Biotechnological and Biomorphic Design Solutions for Cities and Societies’
[3] ‘A City for All Scenarios: Building for the Brief Unknown’
[4] 'Inventing the Future'
[5] 'Bionic City [biocities]'
[6] 'Our Post Industrial Energy Future'

​
2013
[1] 'Beyond Material Boundaries'
[2] 'Self-repairing cities: when retrofit becomes redundant'
[3] 'Future of Comfort: Innovating Comfort'

[4] 'DIY City: Post-Industrial Urban Futures'
[5] 'The Bionic City of the Future'

2012
[1] 'Bionic City'
[2] 
'Nature's R&D Laboratory'
[3] 'Solutions Found in Nature'
[4] '2012 - 2050 [building the new paradigm]'
[5] 
'Building a Bionic City: The Place Where Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact'

[6] 'The Bionic City: Built Environments that embrace a volatile new world order'
[7] 
'Building a Bionic City: Future Sci Fact or Sci-Fiction?'
2011
[1] 'In it Together [learning from nature]'
[2] '
Building from Nature's Blueprint: how to harness the potential of 3.8 billion years of research and development'
[3] 'Tomorrow's World: A Journey to 2050'
[4] 
'The Bionic City: A model for the resilient metropolis of the future'

[5] 'Future City Scenarios: how sustainability is shaping our future urban habitats'
[6] 'The Bionic City: How Would Nature Design a City?'
[7] 'Journey to 2050: How Sustainability is Shaping our Future World'
[8] 'Building a Bionic Future'
[9] 'Bionic City: building our future cities'

​
2010
[1] 
'The Bionic City [ExoStructural Solutions For Building]' 

​[2] 'Biomimicry for the Built Environment: Sourcing Sustainable Design and Engineering Solutions From Nature'
[Workshops]
[1] 'Close Encounters of the Biomimetic Kind'

[2] 'Journey to the Centre of Biomimicry'
[3] 'Biomimicry for the Built Environment'
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