BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Join us online May 2-13, 2022 for inspiration and knowledge sharing as we collaboratively address solutions to our climate emergency, environmental and materials health, and share insights and strategies for rectifying racial inequities and injustices in our communities.

May 12 14:30-15:30 PT Bio Inspired Design: Methods and Practice

• Jared Yarnall-Schane Director of Innovation, Biomimicry Institute
• Jeannette Yen           Georgia Tech

This workshop in Biologically Inspired Design takes superlatives of Nature and translates into designs and engineering processes. Design rules are found using phylogenetic and convergent evolutionary analyses to find common patterns for deep bio inspired designs. To invent a new bio inspired design requires identifying key patterns and abstracting that to an application. Some tricks of the trade that promoted interdisciplinary learning and engagement include: cognitive dissonance, functional matrices, pattern abstraction, identification of key levers. Consideration of performance, creativity and scalability are applied to test credibility vs readiness of designs. This course gives new value to Nature.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Identify to find good examples from Nature that are ripe for design
• Understand how Nature works
• Apply principles from Nature to the built environment
• Build a bio-inspired design: scaling, materials, challenges