Following the Therme Forum Free Future Cities panel discussion, a Therme Workshop at Bauer Palladio explored the connections between humans and nature, and their cumulative potential to positively impact the design of our future cities.

The workshop’s first portion was led by Stefano Mancuso, author and Professor of Botany at the University of Florence, whose insights on plant neurobiology and biological signaling served as a framework for a discussion on Biomimicry, a form of design modelled after biological structures.

The second portion was led by the artists Lonneke Gordijn of Studio Drift and examined how art can utilize technology to come to a more thorough understanding of nature, and ultimately ourselves.