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Lecture Title: <strong>Building A Bionic City: The Place Where Science Fiction Becomes Fact<br><br><br></strong><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div id="yiv2082256617">
<title>Melissa Sterry (E2HUB) - IAAC- MAA 2011-12 Spring Lecture Series</title>
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Lecture Title: <b>Building A Bionic City: The Place Where Science Fiction Becomes Fact</b><br>
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Melissa Sterry is a Design Scientist and Futurist to the built environment, utilities, manufacturing, design, publishing, media and communications industries. Published in over 50 international titles, including sustain’ magazine of which she is an editorial board member, Melissa is Director and Head of Technology at 360 media group Earth 2 Hub Ltd, which aims to re-establish a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature using art, science and digital creativity. A PhD researcher at the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research group at University of Greenwich, she is developing The Bionic City™: a sustainable smart city it transfers knowledge from Earth's ecosystems to a blueprint for a metropolis with resilience to extreme meteorological and geological events. A Visiting Fellow of Sustainable Innovation in Design & Media and Assembly member at University of Salford, Melissa is a Visiting Lecturer and Guest
Critic at universities including the AA School of Architecture and a member of the scientific committee of the International Society of Bionic Engineering. A multi-award winning social entrepreneur she was listed in the Future 100 (2008), as one of the young business leaders changing the face of everyday business and improving commerce’s impact on the wider world, is an inductee of the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the Mensa Education and Research Foundation International Award for Benefit to Society 2010 for exceptional commitment to enhancing intelligence which benefits society. </div>
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