Biodesign: What Combining Science, Art, Design, and an Eco-Centric Approach can Offer the World
Join us for the second installment of our 75th Anniversary Lecture Series, with Jennifer Bissonnette, Director of the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design. Jennifer will lecture on “Biodesign: What Combining Science, Art, Design, and an Eco-Centric Approach can Offer the World,” exploring biomimicry and climate change adaptation through design.
With more than 80,000 preserved natural science specimens, microscopy and micro-imaging systems unparalleled in an art and design school, as well as aquatic systems and lab equipment for maintaining and studying a variety of living and non-living specimens, the RISD Nature Lab is a unique environment for investigating the myriad connections between art, design and science.
Jennifer Bissonnette, Director of the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab at Rhode Island School of Design, is an ecologist and marine scientist whose work engages techniques of transdisciplinary inquiry to merge natural sciences knowledge, techniques, and methods of inquiry with art and design thinking and studio practices.