This document summarizes a biomimetic design project aimed at supporting youth employment through a centralized web portal. The portal will aggregate data from questionnaires and interviews with stakeholders in different regions to establish real-time regional information. This data will be used to generate customized implementation guides exported from the portal to provide best practices for building integrated local economies, with a focus on youth employment and career development sections. The portal and guides are intended to support long-term sustainability through diverse, locally tailored responses based on a high-level adaptive framework.

1. John Longchamps
Denise DeLuca
Biomimetic Design
MCAD | Summer 2015
7.1b Abstracted Strategy Report
Design Challenge: Leveraging Biomimetic Design Methodologies to
Support youth employment and career development.
Project Introduction:
United Nations experience indicates that investing in the development of
young people promises to benefit society in the present and in the future.
However, there is an epidemic youth employment crisis at hand. The United
Nations is positioning interagency alignment to support initiatives to foster
sustainable economic growth through actions aligned with the Post-2015 UN
Development Agenda. The UN agency spearheading the development of youth labor
frameworks is the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Report Purpose:
The purpose of this report is to abstract a select natural function into
technically descriptive terms.
Function Being Addressed:
Long-term systemic sustainability through implementing diverse, locally
attuned functionality and response stemming from a high-level context-
adaptive agile framework.
Technical Strategy Description:
We are creating a high-level context-adaptive agile system in the form of a
centralized implementation resource that will be available through a web-
based portal.
Upon entry into the web-based portal, diverse stakeholders are asked to
select their region (defined graphically on the web-portal in map form), and
are further prompted with a series of questionnaires, and webcam interviews.
The portal aggregates quantitative questionnaire information, and qualitative
interview information region-by-region. The purpose of this ongoing
aggregation is to establish real-time regional data that is used in the
formulation of custom implementation guides.
Custom implementation guides are exported from the portal on-demand by public
and private stakeholders. These implementation guides provide instructions
for best-practice assembly of healthy, integrated economies. In line with
project objectives, the “youth employment and career development” sections of
the portal, questionnaires, interviews, and custom implementation guides will
be showcased.
Next steps, and progress indicators are available on the portal, and in the
custom implementations guides to support public-private implementation
progress.