UN Sustainable Development Goals Addressed
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Goal 9: Industry Innovation & Infrastructure
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Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
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Goal 12: Responsible Production & Consumption
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Goal 16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
2019 Global Design Challenge Finalist
This design concept was developed by participants in the Institute’s Global Design Challenge. The descriptions below are from the team’s competition entry materials.
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States and British Columbia, Canada
Team members: Zachary Schlosser
Innovation Details
This team is building blockchain smart contract templates modeled on the relationships between organisms in healthy ecosystems to enable greater diversity, resilience, and healthy productivity in global supply chains. This could also support regenerative business practices by syncing economic and ecosystemic developmental cycles. To predict and measure the technology’s impact, the team is developing a metric of how similar a product or system is to its natural analogue. This startup emerged from research on designing digital technology to mimic the positive impacts of deep interaction with nature. digitalnaturalness.com