Nature to solve human problems?!
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a relatively new science that studies nature, its models, systems, processes and elements and then imitates or takes creative inspiration from them to solve human problems sustainably.
Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus was the one to define this approach. She believes that being inspired by nature when designing processes & systems can help us overcome challenges we are facing – in her book “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” she gives interesting examples that show how studying the achievements of nature can help us solve us problems we face in many different disciplines.
Watch her speech at the TED conference in 2005 and you´ll discover this is an interesting way of looking at ´natural resources´:
For more information visit Biomimicryinstitute.org especially the case studies are worth a read.
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