Kathy Zarsky

Kathy Zarsky is the Systems Director at HOLOS, a sustainability consultancy whose core tenet is systems thinking and collective intelligence. She is a sustainable and regenerative building advisor, process mapper, biomimicry and biophilia practitioner, educator, and speaker. As a systems and strategy designer, Kathy’s work has focused on the dynamic relationship between people and the built environment at multiple scales. Her goal is to enable solutions that lead to a greater natural ecology through exploration of design and systems using biomimicry and biophilia frameworks. She recently explored biomimicry and biophilia applications with a global technology company. In 2011, Kathy became one of the world’s first Biomimicry Specialists, bringing unique perspective and innovative thinking to design challenges. That same year Kathy founded BiomimicryTX, one of a growing number of global network affiliates of the Biomimicry Institute. Since that time, she has led partnership efforts with SXSW Eco, organized a biomimicry design challenge focused on water with Southern Methodist University, spoken at conferences around the country, written education curricula and developed resources for camp and school programs. She will be launching a series of biomimicry and biophilia programs in 2018 alongside supporting Austin’s Biophilic City objectives.

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