Creative Talk #12 - Learning from living systems

Creative Talk with Elham on Sustainability, Biomimetics and Regenerative Architecture

Date: 30.06.26 – 18:00

Venue: POETIC - Vågeveien 7 – Loennechengården

How can architecture learn from nature?

On Tuesday 30 June, POETIC invites you to a new Creative Talk with Elham, who has recently joined our team and will play a central role in leading and developing the studio’s sustainability direction.

The theme of the evening is Learning from Living Systems, a conversation about sustainability, biomimetics and how architecture can learn from living systems.

At POETIC, we understand architecture as something more than buildings. Architecture is about people, places, materials, energy, daylight, climate and ecosystems. It is about how we shape environments that can give more back than they take.

With Elham on the team, we strengthen our expertise in energy, daylight, sustainability and biomimetic architecture.

Biomimetics is about learning from nature’s own principles: how living systems adapt, use resources, create balance, build structures and interact with their surroundings. For architecture, this opens up new ways of thinking about form, material use, energy, climate, resilience and a sense of belonging to place.

In this Creative Talk, Elham will share perspectives on how sustainability and biomimicry can become an active part of architectural thinking and practice. The conversation will touch upon questions such as:

• How can buildings learn from living systems?

• How can daylight, energy and climate become an integrated part of the design process?

• What does regenerative architecture mean in practice?

• How can architecture create stronger connections between people, nature and place?

For us, this also marks the beginning of a clearer sustainability direction within POETIC. We believe that the architecture of the future must be both poetic and regenerative. It must be able to create meaningful experiences, while also documenting quality. It must be beautiful, but also responsible. It must understand people, places and ecosystems.

Learning from Living Systems is an invitation to see architecture anew, not as something separate from nature, but as part of living relationships.

Welcome to Creative Talk with Elham.