TDS-301: Eco Research Lab Joshua Tree

This TDS sustainable design studio will offer an exciting hands on exploration studio in biomimicry, biodiversity and next nature. Student's will study nature's biological forms and systems, and speculate nature's time tested strategies to solve human design problems. Based on our immersive explorations and workshops in an extremely biologically diverse zone known for its dramatic monzogranite rock formations and it's marvels of adaptation. Students will create new paradigms for how we live, work and play. A critical component of this studio will be pushing towards an intelligent, performative, more sustainable future. How can Joshua Tree's robust bio-diversity, inspire new material innovations and behaviors? Students will design spaces, material innovations, furnishings, and experiences inspired by an extremely biologically intense environment. In terms of biomimicry, we will focus on the desert ecology of: Thermo-Regulation and Water Conservation.