Our VisionThe B-Collaborative serves as a gateway and catalyst for transformational projects. We seek to inspire and facilitate the next generation of sustainable design by integrating natural forms, processes, and systems into human enterprise. Through workshop and curriculum development, lecture and conference participation, and project development, we create the conditions where our human designs are inspired by nature to leave the world better than we found it.
“Legislation doesn’t create good behavior. Respect does.”
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Founder & Project Coordinator Amy Coffman Phillips
Amy Coffman Phillips is a mother, biomimic, architect, MBA, and facilitator who serves as one of nature's ambassadors to the human built environment. She bridges her love of nature and the creative process to create and facilitate engaging (nature-based) projects, from immersive education to built environment consulting. She is skilled at visual and verbal communication of complex ideas and has the unique ability to hold a strategic vision of a holistic system while managing the implementation process of multi-dimensional projects. To create future collaborators and change agents, Amy leads workshops, holds lectures, and offers biomimicry consulting services for clients looking to learn from nature to inspire sustainable, restorative human environments. Amy's particular expertise is increasing resilience in human systems and has co-created a "Naturally Resilient" workshop for business and non-profit leaders.
Amy is also a co-founder of Biomimicry Chicago, a local resource for those looking to learn from nature to design sustainably and restoratively. Through this local node of the Global Biomimicry Network, she created The Prairie Project (an AskPlace initiative) advancing locally-attuned environmental performance standards for the built environment. Amy is a Certified Biomimicry Professional, Illinois licensed architect, MBA, and LEED AP BD+C. She will measure her success by raising great kids and inspiring others to (re)connect with the natural world by learning from Nature's genius.
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Curriculum Advisor Faye Coffman
Faye Coffman is an Educational Advisor to The B-Collaborative regarding curriculum development and workshop implementation utilizing best practices in educational strategy. A lifelong educator, she holds a Masters in Instructional Design and spent 33 years in education, including as an elementary educator, coordinator of secondary education, and coordinator of curriculum and technology for the Edwardsville Public School District #7 where workshop design and facilitation were integral to her work. Her experience and guidance help shape our original curriculum.
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Educational Collaborator Robin R. Randall, AIA
Robin collaborates with The B-Collaborative on integrating biomimicry into educational design at every level - from Pre-K to University learning environments and design courses. She is an architect, educator and environmentalist who leads her own consulting firm, ED lab INC. An educational design expert with 26 years experience programming, planning and creating learning environments, she is a frequent speaker, author, and award winning designer. She makes a personal connection to every client and project to find their full potential. Her current research includes outdoor learning environments and implementing regenerative architecture and Living Building Challenge. She is a professor at Judson University.
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Contact biomimicry@b-collaborative.com and follow Amy on twitter @amycoffman.
