Biomimicry
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- Riiiiight
Study of Nature
Anyone know what schools are teaching Biomimicry in Canada?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio…
- Jnr_Madison0
It's a fucking design board.
- Riiiiight0
Yeah biomimicry is design related
- doesnotexist0
there would never be a university that teaches this, it's about sustainability with current sciences. it would be worked into current curriculum.
- doesnotexist0
oh ps, did anyone watch that special on poo lastnight on Discovery?
- jaylarson0
There was a woman at the AIGA Conference last october that presented on this:
Brainstorming with Belugas: Biomimicry and the Art of Well-Adapted Design
Janine Benyus, author, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and founder, Biomimicry Institute
In a world that needs one brilliant idea after another, it’s good to be surrounded by genius. Biomimicry—the process of finding sustainable ideas by echoing nature—is finding a home in commercial innovation labs throughout the world. Janine Benyus will describe how companies like GE, Qualcomm and Lucent are developing bio-inspired innovations, including a wind turbine that pirouettes like a whale, a low-MPG Mercedes that flows like a fish, a sunlight-readable display that bends light like a butterfly and a fern-inspired capsule that stores vaccines without refrigeration. Our ability to borrow nature’s blueprints and recipes is on the rise, says Benyus, and so is the need for energy-sipping, nontoxic designs. It’s no wonder that companies are “inviting biologists to the design table,” and biomimicry studios in universities are giving the next generation of designers and engineers a new place to look for answers. The breathtaking beauty and diversity of life on earth arose from a simple and consistent set of biological design rules. Benyus will explore with us how these very same rules could spark a no-excuses design revolution.http://designconference2007.aiga…
You might want to try and contact her.
- Biomimicry Institute:
http://www.biomimicr…jaylarson - ThanksRiiiiight
- < Link has links to here presentation and slides. Really cool shit!jaylarson
- Biomimicry Institute:
- lowimpakt0
she spoke at TED in 2005 - http://www.ted.com/index.php/tal…
- teleos0
I have a great interest in this topic. It's similar to Bioinformatics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio…
Engineering designs inspired by the machinery we find in nature is a fascinating thing.