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A new global partnership in
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“We want to think about things that will change the world, and about the possibilities that will come of that.”
Dr..David S. Ricketts, Senior Innovation Scholar, TECH, Harvard University, Co-convener of the Geoversity Planning Session in Panama, February 2016.
Since Geoversity’s launch in February of 2016, this highly diverse network of business and civic leaders, scientists, educators and artists has been evolving organically, much like an ecosystem. With this report on Geoversity’s start up and initial joint ventures, we’re offering a glimpse into the rich potential of this unusual community of purpose.
Nathan Gray, Co-founder, Geoversity and President of the Geoversity secretariat; Co-executive Director, Earth Train Foundation.
“Geoversity defines as its biome the nexus between business, science and the arts, and nature. It is dedicated to demonstrating ways whereby human design, creativity, and enterprise can evolve and thrive, inspired by nature and in harmony with nature. “
From The Planning and Start-Up of Geoversity, February 2016. Published by the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH).Read and download the complete whitepapers here.
The Geoversity Alliance is an ecosystem of organizations, both non-profit and for profit, that share a commitment to “learning from and partnering with nature.” Still in its early stage of development, the alliance is embracing an ambitious long-term vision: To bring about a popular shift in worldview, moving away from values and practices that set humankind apart from nature, toward a deeply-felt and fully-realized oneness with nature.
Among the founding Geoversity Alliance members are Earth Train Foundation; Rainforest Capital; PAX Scientific; Forest Finance; the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University (TECH); the Center for Spatial Studies at the University of Redlands; Fundación Ciudad del Saber; and several highly accomplished individuals including Rob Griffin, Grammy-Award winning sound engineer and produce; Verne Harnish, Gazelles Founder and CEO, Founder Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and Geoversity Chairman; Anand Devarajan, Senior Partner at Gehry Partners LLP; Brian Dumaine, Fortune Magazine Senior Editor at Large; and David Meerman Scott, bestselling author, global lecturer on social media marketing.
INTRODUCING GEOVERSITY
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Geoversity aims to foster mutually enriching “cross pollination” within a diversity of stakeholders.
Panama is Geoversity’s founding home with the Mamoní Valley Preserve, the City of Knowledge and the Frank Gehry-designed Biomuseo serving as its primary campuses. We’re also developing “field stations” in other locations, particularly Linton Island on Panama’s coast of Colón and on the island of São Jorge, the Azores, Portugal.
Geoversity members are conducting several joint ventures that either start with or build on work each is already doing, and which can be accomplished with greater efficacy – measured in both financial and social/environmental terms - while serving the Geoversity mission.
Geoversity is an educational network emphasizing experiential learning, particularly through volunteer service, mentoring and internships.
FOUR PRINCIPLES GUIDING THE STARTUP OF GEOVERSITY
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Formally launched in Panama by the business educator, best selling author and columnist for Fortune Magazine, Verne Harnish; the editor-at-large of Fortune Magazine, Brian Dumaine; the City of Knowledge Foundation; Earth Train Foundation; the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard; Forest Finance; and several other accomplished companies and individuals.
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Geoversity conducts, in Panama, its first workshop on natural design led by Jörg Stamm, the internationally renowned builder specializing in bamboo, and the award-winning architect Patrick Dillon.
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Geoversity’s The Nature of Business Executive Education Program introduced at the Fortune Growth Summit in Dallas, Texas. Geoversity co-founder and best selling expert on biomimicry Jay Harman was one of the key note speakers.
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In team with several indigenous NGOs and the Biomuseo, Geoversity co-hosted the historic visit to Panama of the Hokule’a, the sailing canoe of the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) as they concluded their around-the-world tour with several days of activity on the Panama City waterfront. Among the highlights of our program with the PVS was a waterfront festival at the Biomuseo with indigenous youth and elders and the Hokule’a’s crew. A traditional bamboo raft built by students and parents under the direction of the German builder and bamboo specialist Jörg Stamm and the
boat builder James Laign, participated in the send off of the Hokule’a on its voyage back to Hawaii.
The long term focus of this effort is the honoring of the indigenous of the Americas whose explorations started over 1,000 years ago covered much of the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. We’ll also be working on the design and testing of boats made primarily of locally available bamboo instead of scarce wood and expensive fiberglass.
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Geoversity’s second natural design workshop on bamboo construction with the internationally renowned builder Jörg Stamm. With this workshop, our partnership with the Frank Gehry-designed Biomuseo entered a new and exciting phase: the creation of pavilions and functional art pieces on the Biomuseo waterfront plaza. Modeled after the annual shows of the Serpentine
Gallery of London, guest architects and artists will be joining us in celebrating natural design and materials. The performance pavilion, popularly referred to as the Bambuseo, was completed in time for a Geoversity/Junglewood event taking concert that took place there on February 9th, 2017.
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The Nature of BusinessA Geoversity Executive Program
During a five-day experiential and educational program 25 CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs teamed up with business leaders, best-selling authors and designers to gain practical insights from nature that are helping them drive their businesses to new levels of sustainability. Directed by Brian Dumaine, Editor at Large Fortune Magazine and co-chair of Fortune’s
Brainstorm-E Conference, Geoversity’s EP was conducted in partnership with the Technology and Entrepreneur Center at Harvard (TECH). The 2017 session, with workshops and special events at the City of Knowledge, the Biomuseo and Earth Train’s science center at the Mamoní Valley Preserve, was the first of three annual The Nature of Business sessions to be held in Panama.
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Harvard Biology PhD student and Geoversity co-founder Ben Goulet led five fellow Ph.D. students on their first field trip to Earth Train’s Centro Mamoní, where they spent a week observing and photo documenting wildlife is a lifelong dream for most students of evolution and biodiversity. They are now producing outstanding materials that support the conservation and education initiatives of the Mamoní Valley Preserve and collaborating with Earth Train on the Avatar Game Experience.
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University of Redlands Environmental Studies Professor, Dan Klooster and Center for Spatial Studies Director, Dr. Steven, both Geoversity co-founders, led a team of five professors and 16 undergraduate students on a month-long field research trip to the Mamoni Valley Preserve. The students engaged in forest surveys, carbon sequestration estimation, land‐cover categorization, watershed deliniation, and high‐resolution mapping with drones.
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Dedication of Geoversity’s Biocultural Design Center at the Biomuseo
Geoversity initiated a temporary internship, work, display and performance complex located on land that the Biomuseo will eventually sell to finance the construction of the museum.
Soon, highly accomplished designers and builders will be working at the Center in team with interns, students and special guests on the design and prototyping of structures, furniture,
and art objects that make intelligent use of natural materials –particularly materials such as bamboo that can be sourced in Panama- resulting in design innovation worthy of emulation. Center staff will also be conducting educational and program/exhibit design activities with the theme Panama Is Our Museum aimed at assisting diverse communities around the country in effectively telling their cultural and natural history stories.
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Geoversity’s Biocultural Design Center, Gun Hill/City of Knowledge
Working in team with MiAmbiente, Earth Train, the City of Knowledge Foundation and other Geoversity members began the first of several urban forest programs. Activities include trail design and interpretation, nature-related research, biocultural leadership training activities, nature-based education, sustainability and nature conservation, green design, and nature and the arts programs.
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Geoversity Design is offering two over-laping four-day workshops at the Biocultural Design Center at the Biomuseo. The first, to be led by architect Patrick Dillon in team with London-based architect John Naylor, is for designers and architects interested in using bamboo and other natural materials in the building of performance structures, cabins and tree houses. Naylor, with an impressive background in bamboo design with state-of-the-art
CAD applications, has been working on design concepts for the Oceans Pavilion to be built at the Biomuse in January 2018.
The second four-day workshop, to be led by Jörg Stamm and the Colombian architect Roger Martinez will emphasize actual construction, including the building of model tree houses in the giant ficus trees that frame the Biocultural Design Center.
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GOING FORWARD
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Geoversity’s first working symposium on “video games and environmental learning and action” will take place at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and feature Ubisoft Senior Vice President Tommy François in a program organized by Geoversity co-founders John de Cuevas, Associate Editor Emeritus, Harvard Magazine, and Ben Goulet, a Ph.D. student at Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The half-day gathering is part of a long-term and yet-to-be-announced educational experiment that we are developing with François, a Geoversity member, and other leaders in the
field of interactive entertainment media.Also participating: Dr. Monty Hempel, the director of the University of Redlands Center for Environmental Studies and co-founder and rst president, of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS); Dan L. Perlman, Ph.D., Associate Provost of Innovation in Education and Professor of Biology, Ecology and Biodiversity; Amy Kamariainen, Ph.D., Senior Research and Project Zero Manager, Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Earth Train co-executive directors Nathan Gray and Lider Sucre.
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GOING FORWARD
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Geoversity Design will conduct a four-day workshop at the Biomuseo to be led by Jörg Stamm together with the Indonesian professor of architecture and bamboo innovator Andry Widyowijatnoko.
The focus: Build the Oceans Pavilion on the Biomuseo’s waterfront.
The Oceans Pavilion will have its formal concert debut on January 31st in connection with The Nature of Business 2018.
GOING FORWARD
John Osmond Naylor, AA Diploma
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Geoversity’s second The Nature of Business Executive Education Program (NoB18) will be chaired by Geoversity co-founder Dr. David S. Ricketts, Senior Innovation Scholar, TECH, Harvard University, with the acclaimed landscape designer Edwina von Gal joining the faculty. NoB18 will open on January 30th with a symposium on the “Avatar game experiment” featuring Ubisoft Senior Vice President Tommy François and special recognition of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The nature immersion part of NoB18 is taking place at Hacienda del Mar on the San Jose island conservancy in Panama’s Pearl Islands archipelago.
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Green-Steel Biocultural Pavilion
In 2015, Architect Anand Devarajan, one of Frank Gehry’s senior partners, started designing Geoversity’s Green Steel Biocultural Pavilion, a performing arts structure that will be built of bamboo and other natural materials. Conceived as a kind of organic sequel to the Biomuseo, it will be located at forest’s edge on the site of an old firing range in the City of Knowledge.
Joining Anand on this multi-faceted
project are the Panamanian born architect and Gehry associate Patrick Dillon, the Grammy award winning sound engineer and producer Rob Griffin, and the German builder Jörg Stamm.“The Green Steel Project,” explains Anand, “can model how to design with nature in a new and contemporary way. It can exemplify new interdisciplinary and cross-cultural ways of thinking that celebrate connection with nature through design, the arts, and education.”
GOING FORWARD
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Individual members:
Verne Harnish, Gazelles Founder and CEO, Founder Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and Geoversity Chairman
Brian Dumaine, Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine
David Meerman Scott, bestselling author, global lecturer on social media marketing
Tommy François, Senior Vice President, UBISOFT
Mercedes Eleta de Brenes, President, Stratego Communications
Ben Goulet, Ph.D. student, Biology, Harvard University
John de Cuevas, Associate Editor Emeritus, Harvard Magazine
David S. Ricketts, Ph.D., Innovation Scholar, Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH)
Institutional members:
RAINFOREST CAPITAL
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members
Individual members:
Jörg Stamm, Builder and Specialist in Natural Materials
Patrick Dillon, Architect, President, ENSITU, S.A.
Roger Martinez, Architect
Rob Griffin, Grammy-Award winning sound engineer and producer; co-founder, Junglewood
Anand Devarajan, Senior Partner, Gehry Partners LLP
Dayra de Bern, Architect
Institutional members:
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members
City of Knowledge, Building # 104 | Demetrio Porras street, Clayton, Panama | P.O.Box [email protected] | Panama telephone: +507 832-5800 | US telephone: +1 (510) 984-3608
Nathan Gray and Lider Sucre, Geoversity secretariat [email protected]@earthtrain.org
