Richard James MacCowan

Founder of Biomimicry Innovation Lab. Keynote speaker, Workshop faciltator, Designer, Urbanist, Behavioural economics, Systems-thinking, Complexity Science.

Richard loves to explore fresh ideas and concepts and is ever curious about the environment around him. He is an award-winning designer and has worked around the world in cities, manufacturing, food systems and product design.

Richard’s passion is developing new models of innovation to reduce costs, improve efficiency and resilience in the design and manufacturing process. He taught at some of the top design schools in the world: from The Royal College of Art (UK); The Pratt Institute (USA); Vellore Institute of Technology (India); and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary).

Richard is also the founder of the non-profit Biomimicry UK, and the CEO of an equine technology startup, Smart Stable Limited. He combines this with extensive research development with international collaborators.