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The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Océanopolis - Ocean Discovery Park Brest France
Since 1990, Océanopolis, owned by the City of has recounted the natural history of the oceans, with a mission of scientific mediation through pedagogy and creativity. Knowledge and understanding of the planet’s various marine ecosystems, to improve their conservation. Océanopolis is unique in Europe: three houses and an otter trail for a world tour of the oceans, via temperate, polar and tropical environments. It is a rigorous scientific journey and a great achievement in reconstituting marine habitats, in 77 aquaria and 9,000 m2 of exhibition space. Océanopolis is an excellent educational platform. It hosts major temporary exhibitions, activity programmes on a yearly rolling basis, especially during school half-term holidays at regular intervals.
Designed by academics who wished to let science out of the laboratory and bring it to the general public, Océanopolis is a very singular aquarium. Links with researchers continue to be forged, of course especially those in Brest, where the quality of the local scientific platform is unique in Europe. They also work with international teams. Close collaborations between Océanopolis teams and French and international agencies working in the marine world, whether in science, industry or education, frequently result in the construction of joint projects, resulting in exhibitions, aquaria, films, educational workshops or scientific cultural events.
OCÉANOPOLIS IN FIGURES
•More than 4 million litres of sea water
•1,000 different species
•10,000 animals
•9,000 m2 of visit space
•3 pavilion
•1 otter trail
•77 aquaria
The ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptation South’ project seeks to help the Seychelles, Nepal and Mauritania to adapt to climate change, in part by restoring natural habitats across all types of ecosystems. In the Seychelles, on-the-ground ecological restoration will rehabilitate 29 hectares of mangrove and wetland forests, thus providing natural flood barriers.
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Daintree back country, where the rainforest gives way to tall open forest and eventually to savannah.
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Beatriz da Costa, Invisible Earthlings (2009) Invisible EarthlingsInvisible Earthlings is an investigation into the possibilities of relating between humans and members of the lived non-human worlds that we are least likely to recognize as social actors within urban environments: microbes. Microbes, partially defined by their small size and the fact that they are commonly not visible to the human eye, quite literally escape our view and thereby our awareness of their existence. Although most people have some vague notion about the importance of microbes in our ecosystems, microbes commonly only receive our attention when they are perceived to cause problems—"problems" in this case defined as either harmful to human, plant, and animal health, or our material goods. But what type of activities are the numerous relatives of these so-called "harmful microbes" performing while we are walking by, stepping right on top of them, or busily shopping for "mold resistant" building materials? What types of organisms are present, what types were present once but are no longer, and why? Where did they come from, what do we know about them, what type of roles have and are they performing in different historical and geographical settings?.
Human Ecosystems presents One Million Dreams, the first planetary database of dreams, as people express them through social networks. More than 2 million dreams have already been collected, in 15 languages. www.artisopensource.net/network/artisopensource/2014/03/2...
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Aambyvalley rd., Upper Lonavala Maharashtra India
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"King of Medicine" in Ayurveda ...fruits at different stages of maturity.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Multiple forms of Ecosystems can be found in Nature possessing remarkable efficiencies. Jones (2008) explains that the term Ecomimicry describes the mimicking of natural Ecosystems and translating it to the human scale.
An Ecosystem represents the interaction between a living organism and its environment creating systems to improve the living conditions of its community additionally increasing the amount of outputs from the same inputs. ‘The more that Ecosystems mature, the more they enhance their environment and allow greater diversity,’ (Pawlyn, 2011). Ecosystems create cycles to recirculate waste using a minimum of energy.
Sustainability is the concept of durability consisting in creating a positive evolution over time, having the capacity to endure without destroying itself. To achieve Sustainability it is essential to restore the relationship between Nature and the environment that we build. ‘Sustainability is as much about keeping buildings in existence as it is about constructing new low-impact efficient designs’ (Kellert, 2008). ‘Sustainability goes hand-in-hand with a new respect for Nature coming from biophilia’ explains Kellert. In term of Architecture, Sustainability begins with taking care of the existing buildings. Including the notion of Sustainability in new Architecture could improve the quality of life. ‘As humanity’s expectations and population have grown, our vision of environmental Sustainability must radically evolve into a different picture than the snapshot from pre-industrial times’ ad Kellert (2008).
In Nature we can find great insect builders such as the habitat of the Thermites. They developed a system for natural air circulation powered by the sun to regulate the varying temperatures in different areas of their mound explains Senosiain (2003). Those underground megacities are built with a zero-waste method of construction. Adapted to the human scale we can compare those mounds to cathedrals. ‘The form of termite mounds can be explained as elaborate systems for thermal control in order to create optimum egg-laying conditions for the queen termite and ideal temperatures for fungus farming’ (Pawlyn, 2012). This ingenious control of air circulation is created by ventilation tubes that thermites can open or close depending of the temperature inside the mound. Thermites also create thermal storage build in strategic areas of the mound.
On the outside, thermites build external shading devices to protect their habitat against the sun and prevent overheat.
The architect Mick Pearce (2012) describes a building he designed called Eastgate Development Harare in Zimbabwe (fig. 22) were he used passive ventilation to regulate the temperature in based on ‘the way that termites construct their nest to ventilate, cool and heat’.
Ecosystems are largely represented in forests such as the tropical forests described as ‘Incubator of life’ by National Geographic. Tropical rainforests can be seen has a complete Ecosystem representing a large biodiversity. It manages to keep the same temperatures all year long and produces a large amount of oxygen from carbon dioxide for the species living in it. The evaporation of water coming from trees is transformed to rain forming a cycle. Tropical forests are arranged in four layers. The emergent layer consists of gigantic and strong trees that protect those under. The next layer consists of trees forming a canopy and protecting from the strong sunlight. The next one is found between the canopy and the forest ground called the understory and creating a dark and cool area. Finally, the forest ground is composed of plants and trees in decomposition creating resources, habitat and food for the insects. Grimshaw architects designed in 2005 a project called Eco-Rainforest that ‘aims to recreate a piece of Amazonian rainforest as faithfully as possible’. The project had to respond to the demand of a client asking for a carbon-neutral botanical visitor attraction.
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A building only constituted in straight lines do not invite the brain to creativity. How can we be inspired by nature? Is it possible to adapt those habitats to human?
The essay has demonstrated a large variety of application from the natural world generated by the science of Biomimicry. It presented the status of technologies that architects are currently using. Creating a bridge between science and Architecture could be seen as the beginning of a new era improving both the environment and human life quality.
Ecosystem survey in the waters off Myanmar
Photo credit must be given: © Peter Psomadakis. Copyright ©Peter Psomadakis
During day 3 of Missouri River Academy we examined different parts of the Missouri River ecosystem, from the plants that grow along its banks to the fish that swim in its waters.
We started the day off learning about birds from the Missouri River Bird Observatory. Students looked at bird skulls and played a game that mimicked a bird’s migration pattern. The kids used all of their senses on a riparian forest hike and unleashed their artistic sides by painting Missouri River-inspired watercolors.
After lunch, we set back out onto the river to go fishing with the Missouri Department of Conservation! Some students dissected Asian carp, an activity loved by some and disliked by others, but everyone enjoyed using poles to fish for catfish.
Students stretched their minds with Minute Mystery riddles during the Olympic games (The Pride is in the lead by 5 points) and ate watermelon by the pool during community time.
Today was the final day of research for the Missouri River Action Project. Tomorrow students will work on drafts for their presentations, which they will create and present on Thursday.
We watched the sun go down from the river during a sunset cruise. The students socialized and opened up to each other during a group reflection activity called Rose, Thorn, and Bud.
It is wonderful to see the friendships among the campers growing with each passing day!
Photo by Claire Hassler
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Students made posters of forest, lake, desert, ocean, swamp, river, mountain, or coastline ecosystem's living and non-living organisms.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Diego Molano Vega, Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia at The Innovation Ecosystem Session. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Frank Briegmann, Universal Music Group / Dominik Wichmann, DLD Media DLDeurope 16, Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the European Union, September 5th 2016
Free press image © Marc Melkenbeek / Picture Alliance for DLD
2011 World Water Week Sunday 2011-08-21, K16-K17, EcoHealth - Linking Environmental Change, Healthy Ecosystems and Human Well-being in Rural and Urban Areas. Photo credit: Thomas Henrikson/SIWI
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
During day 3 of Missouri River Academy we examined different parts of the Missouri River ecosystem, from the plants that grow along its banks to the fish that swim in its waters.
We started the day off learning about birds from the Missouri River Bird Observatory. Students looked at bird skulls and played a game that mimicked a bird’s migration pattern. The kids used all of their senses on a riparian forest hike and unleashed their artistic sides by painting Missouri River-inspired watercolors.
After lunch, we set back out onto the river to go fishing with the Missouri Department of Conservation! Some students dissected Asian carp, an activity loved by some and disliked by others, but everyone enjoyed using poles to fish for catfish.
Students stretched their minds with Minute Mystery riddles during the Olympic games (The Pride is in the lead by 5 points) and ate watermelon by the pool during community time.
Today was the final day of research for the Missouri River Action Project. Tomorrow students will work on drafts for their presentations, which they will create and present on Thursday.
We watched the sun go down from the river during a sunset cruise. The students socialized and opened up to each other during a group reflection activity called Rose, Thorn, and Bud.
It is wonderful to see the friendships among the campers growing with each passing day!
Photo by Claire Hassler
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.