BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Since 2002, Biomimicry 3.8 has been offering week-long immersion programs to introduce participants to a new way of viewing and valuing the genius that surrounds us in the natural world. This year, in cooperation with Biomimicry Institute, our program focuses on honing and developing the skills to tap into nature’s genius while inspiring new innovations. We’ve closely coupled the program experience with the Institute’s AskNature, the world’s premier digital library of nature’s adaptations, and provide the opportunity for participants to become first-hand contributors to this incredible seedbank of strategies. Through this offering, we invite designers, creators, and  innovators from around the world to find inspiration from  the strategies found in nature.

Are you someone passionate about nature and how her elegant solutions can and should inform sustainable designs for humanity? Are you curious about the adaptations of life on Earth to survive and thrive and the lessons we might learn? Have you been wondering how to tap into that seemingly infinite source of innovation and inspiration?

Then join us. Upon completing this immersion program, you will be able to:

• Identify sustainable innovation strategies in nature and discern the functional objectives being achieved by forms, processes, and systems in nature
• Translate biological phenomenon into relevant and applicable design principles
• Fully describe a strategy discovered while in the Costa Rican tropical rainforest using the AskNature format and suggest applications for human designs
• Assemble interdisciplinary biomimicry work teams based on the core competencies required
• Recognize Life’s Principles, the rules for the way life on Earth can survive and thrive, in natural systems and in human design

This program will empower you in the practice of biomimicry by strengthening your ability to use the biomimicry process for discovering nature’s amazing adaptations developed over 3.8 billion years of evolution. Your program leaders will guide your discovery into how life’s strategies can help humanity solve its own challenges in design, business, engineering, and beyond. This immersion experience held in the tropical rainforest ecosystem of Costa Rica will teach you how to deeply observe the natural world with the support from our experienced program leaders and translate those observations into insights that can drive innovative, biomimetic solutions to a wide range of challenges.

In addition to a life-changing experience in one of Costa Rica’s most biologically rich collection of ecosystems, immersion program participants also receive access to theFoundations of Biomimicry online course and earn credit towards the Biomimicry Specialist Certificate.