In the final chapter in our Biomimicry Challenge, we ask the clients if they think nature can help solve their business problems. Richard Graves, vice president of community for the U.S. Green ...

Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

In honor of the Portland area's recent heat wave, we'll look at a hot-climate house that mimics a snail for coolness, and the field of biomimicry; at research on the cocoon as a way to improve home ...

“We always learn about nature, but we are rarely taught to learn from nature.” – Jess Berliner Biomimicry encompasses so many different fields of design, manufacture and communication, that it can’t ...

For this year’s London Design Festival, Brompton’s theme is Nature/Nurture. The designer curating the district, Jane Withers, says she used biodiversity as a platform to explore how nature can fit ...

If you’ve got a design problem you need to fix, you could lock a bunch of engineers into a room to help brainstorm. Or you could look to the natural world. Biomimicry is the practice of replicating ...

The annual competition from the Biomimicry Insititute is spreading its wings: The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) is expanding to include the Living Product Prize. Entrants vying for the ...

This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself." It’s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: ...