About the speaker:
Shiva Subramaniam: Shiva is a guest faculty at IIT Madras, where he teaches courses on creativity, entrepreneurship, life skills and cross-culture and biomimicry. He is the founder of Biomimicry Compass (biomimicrycompass.com), an IIT Madras incubated company, that enables innovation using nature’s design strategies and engineering principles.
Shiva joined TCS in April 1991. While at TCS, he evangelised the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking. He also created a cross-culture program, ‘Understanding the Indian’ to help clients work with TCS. Some of you may remember him as having worked with Greg Chappell and the Indian national cricket team, helping them with creative thinking. He was also part of the Tata Group Innovation Forum. Shiva is an ICF-certified coach (PCC), focusing on coaching for innovation, cross-culture and entrepreneurship.
Email: Shiva Subramaniam <shiva@thinkpaperclip.com>
Feedback:
This is brilliant. Shiva – an excellent exposition on the idea. The masterstroke is in linking the idea to 2030 sustainability goals – this gives real challenges and goal/target to solve for on a time bound basis. – V.K.Raman
Very useful indeed! – Jayant Krishna
Shiva – superb session, fascinating what nature can teach us! – Anita Rajan
Very well presented and totally relevant to the challenges we face today – Jamuna
This must be taken up at the National level – Lata Bhaskar
Very interesting and thought provoking. Thanks Shiva – S.Bala
Excellent session – R.N.Lahiri
I learnt something new Shiva ! Thank you for introducing me to a new ( or Old ) World called Nature 😊 – PRK
Great presentation Shiva – V Muralidharan
Great presentation Shiva – Krishna Bhagavatula
Siva, your goal of taking biomimicry to all schools is laudable. It however has a prerequisite. There should be 100s of examples, case studies created by practitioners using biomimicry concepts . As they say proof o the pudding is in its eating. Children can be motivated to learn and practice ,when armed with numerous successfully carried out use cases. – Parasuram Balasubramanian
Interesting concept with huge potential. Nicely presented. Thanks to Shiva, Murali and Annapoorna. – Venkatakrishnan Vatsaraman
Shiva, Fantastic energy and clarity, as usual. Great presentation. – Nagaraj
Creating workbooks in regional languages is a great idea. – Vijay Prasad B
There is an opportunity to create a certification program for coaches and trainers who can take this initiative to next level – Sanjay BHARGAVA
Thanks for the great presentation – Jamuna
Thanks Shiva for these leads – really excellent!! More important is this approach could be a way to look at systems differently. To help us reframe them so a novel solution might well emerge. As you rightly pointed out, this system resonates with Sustainability since sustainability is a defining principle of Nature. Many thx! – Kavi Arya
Thanks Shiva for sharing the wealth of knowledge and information – Padmaja Krishnan
Dear Shiva,
Very effectively articulated presentation. Post your presentation I gave a thought on the overall take away from the session. I perceived two fork approach going forward :-
(1) Consideting Sevalaya School as a role model to replicate the same in other provinces. This part many of our members have touched upon during the session itself. We will finally be able to recon the best practice.
(2) Explore the research part BIO-MIMICRY. Each member of Fortess is highly talented and with phenomenal technical background and the group is blessed by spearheading visionaries like Mr. Ramadorai and Mr. Mahalingam. We can think of collaboration with global research organization on this subject as you are there as an SME with a focus to nurture more on technological benefit for the social benefit.
Mother Nature is the ultimate teacher for all of us ( your presentation had nicely demonstrated that ) whether it is today’s modern mathematics or modern physics like Quantum Biology ( Photosynthesis).
Above is my very personal perception and after thought of your session.
I will keep in touch with you , Shiva. – Debashis Bandho
We can make a presentation on kalvi40 in fortess as implementing new ideas like biomimicry in government schools with local language was discussed. This is just getting started in sirkali school ( which Chandra is supporting). We made a demo to HM and teachers. The entire syllabus from 3rd to 8th std is video recorded and digitized. Already 100 Govt schools have adopted this. Chandra we can present this in fortess. The person behind this, Mr. Prem kumar was in TCS.
I am part of this Kalvi40. – Hema Gopal
