Michelle Fehler

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About Michelle Fehler

Michelle is a Clinical Assistant Professor, Biomimicry Professional and a Visual Communication Designer who is passionate about connecting Nature’s strategies to design. Her goal is to enable designers to tap into this vast database of inspiration in order to find innovative and sustainable solutions. Her research focuses on defining a life-centered design thinking methodology that allows the infusion of biomimicry thinking into the traditional human-centered design and systems thinking process. She is looking at various tools and processes that make the biomimetic approach more accessible to designers. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at The Design School at Arizona State University, she teaches various multi-disciplinary design studios, lectures, and seminars to undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, she teaches a practicum course as part of the world's first Master's Biomimicry Program at Arizona State University. She has presented her work at various conferences such as at the World Usability Day, AIGA Y-conference, AIGA Phoenix Design Week, SustainbleUX, Audubon society, European Academy of Design, Liberty Wildlife, Target HQ, Renaissance, and the Swiss Design Network. Her work has been published in the Cooper Hewitt’s Summer 2019 Design Journal, The Design Journal, and Biomimetics (MDPI)