The Ecomimicry Project

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About the Project Coordinator

The 2006-2009 Ecomimicry Project was coordinated by Dr. Alan Marshall. Alan is currently research and teaching scholar working in the Faculty of Arts at the Univerzita Pavol Josef Safarik, Slovakia.

 

Alan has previously held fellowships or lectureships at a number of Universities around Australia and Europe including the University of Wollongong (Australia), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Nizhni Novgorod State University (Russia), the Institute for Advanced Studies for Science, Technology and Society (Austria), Curtin University of Technology (Australia) and Presov University (Slovakia).

SUPPORT FOR THE ECOMIMICRY PROJECT HAS COME, AND CONTINUES TO COME, FROM MANY DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONS, MOST NOTABLY:

 

CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AUSTRALIA

ALCOA FOUNDATION, USA

SLOVAK ACADEMIC INFORMATION AGENCY, SLOVAKIA

PRESOV UNIVERSITY AT PRESOV, SLOVAKIA

SOCIETY FOR NATIVE ARTS AND SCIENCES, USA

SCHLOSS SOLITUDE AKADEMIE, GERMANY

 

 

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The Project Co-ordinators' writings on ecomimicry include:

 

Wild Design: Ecofriendly Innovations Inspired by Nature,

North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 2009

'Questioning the Theory and Practice of Biomimicry', International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics, Vol 4, No 1, pp1-10

'The Ecomimicry Project: An Experimental Approach to Green Design'.VIII.Vedecka Konferencia Stavebnej fakulty TU v Kosiciach, 28/05/2007.Technical University of Kosice, Koscie, Slovakia: Technical University of Kosice.

'The Theory and Practice of Ecomimicry. Available here

 

 

 

 

 

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Dr. Marshall has also published many other writings in the field of sustainability, environmental studies and the intersections between technology and society, for example:

'Communicating with Future Generations about our Nuclear Waste Legacy', Futures Research Quarterly, pp 65-75., 2007

'Dangerous Dawn: The New Nuclear Age', Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of the Earth: Melbourne., 2006

'Questioning Nuclear Waste Substitution', Science and Engineering Ethics, Vol.13, pp.83-98., 2006

'The Social and Ethical Aspects of Nuclear Waste', Electronic Green Journal, Issue 21, Earth Day Issue, 2005.

'Questioning the Motivations for International Repositories for Nuclear Waste', Global Environmental Politics, Vol.5, No. 2, May 2005, pp.1-7.

'The Unity of Nature', Imperial College Press, London, 2002

'A Postmodern Natural History of the World: eviscerating the GUTs from ecology and environmentalism', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Vol.34 Part C, No 1, 137-164, 1998

Gaian Ecology and Environmentalism', Wild Earth, Vol.7, No. 2, pp76-81. 1997

'Another green world' Quest Vol.1, No. 3, pp38-50., 1997

'Review of 'The Politics of Space' by Matthew von Bencke', Prometheus, 1997

'Development and Imperialism in Space', Space Policy, Vol.11, No. 1, pp41-52. 1995

'Ethics and the Extraterrestrial Environment', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol.10, No 2, pp227-237., 1993


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