John Longchamps

Denise DeLuca

Biomimetic Design

MCAD | Summer 2015

7.2 Emulate

Design Challenge: Leveraging Biomimetic Design Methodologies to

Support youth employment and career development.

Project Introduction:

United Nations experience indicates that investing in the development of

young people promises to benefit society in the present and in the future.

However, there is an epidemic youth employment crisis at hand. The United

Nations is positioning interagency alignment to support initiatives to foster

sustainable economic growth through actions aligned with the Post-2015 UN

Development Agenda. The UN agency spearheading the development of youth labor

frameworks is the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Report Purpose:

The purpose of this report is to abstract a select natural function into

technically descriptive terms.

Function Being Addressed:

Long-term systemic sustainability through implementing diverse, locally

attuned functionality and response stemming from a high-level context-

adaptive agile framework.

Emulation Strategy:

We are creating a context-adaptive agile system and centralized

implementation resource in the form of a web-based portal.

Upon entry into the web-based portal, diverse stakeholders are asked to

select their region (defined graphically on the web-portal in map form), and

are further prompted with a series of questionnaires, and webcam interviews.

The portal aggregates quantitative questionnaire information, and qualitative

interview information region-by-region. The purpose of this ongoing

aggregation is to establish real-time regional data that is used in the

formulation of custom implementation guides.

Custom implementation guides are exported from the portal on-demand by public

and private stakeholders. These implementation guides provide instructions

for best-practice assembly of healthy, integrated economies. In line with

project objectives, the “youth employment and career development” sections of

the portal, questionnaires, interviews, and custom implementation guides will

be showcased.

Next steps, and progress indicators are available on the portal, and in the

custom implementations guides to support public-private implementation progress.

John Longchamps

Denise DeLuca

Biomimetic Design

MCAD | Summer 2015

Web Portal

This image is a visualization of the web portal.