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The Biomimetic Materials Laboratory	Biomimetics (also known as biomimicry or bionics) is the transfer of technology from nature to engineering. By understanding how natural materials, tissues, systems or devices operate in their natural environment, we can engineer better materials, system and devices with...	2014/05/15 - 19:17	biomaterials. McGill
Germinature	This blog is authored by Biomimicry Fellows being trained as Biomimicry PhDs in the Integrated Bioscience PhD Program at the University of Akron (UA). We started our exciting 5-year long journey on August 27th, 2012, and we’ve created this blog to share our thoughts and...	2014/02/19 - 17:47	blog, network, Ohio, U/Akron
2014 INCOSE Workshop	This event organized by the Natural Systems Working Group was held in Los Angeles on January 25-26. The website has pointers to many of the presentations given at the workshop. The first two by George Studor...	2014/02/09 - 17:08	design, INCOSE, systems, systems engineering, Workshop
George Jeronimidis Lecture on Biomimetics and Bioinspiration	The post provides an overview of the October 22nd lecture on Biomimetics and Bioinspiration - Smart solutions for functional architecture at the Institute for...	2013/10/29 - 15:59
New blog on biomimicry...in spanish	From Madrid, Spain, Manuel Quirós BSc,MSc,PhD in Biology has created this site to spread out the biomimesis field with his design students and other interested people. Most of the internet's contents are basic in english, some other in german and few other in spanish but without a clear...	2013/10/12 - 12:15
GrAB - Growing As Building	GrAB - Growing As Building takes growth patterns and dynamics from nature and applies them to...	2013/10/10 - 17:39	architecture, design, growth, living, self-organization
New Book on Biodesign	New book on biodesign, by now in spanish. It presents a proposal of process (and it`s methods) to look for biological principles in order to solve design problems, in two ways: Concept design and Detail design, depending if we look for new concepts from studying a biological entity, or solving a...	2013/09/06 - 01:58
Biologically Inspired Design: Computational Methods and Tools	Goel, A. K., McAdams, D. A., & Stone, R. B. (2013). Biologically Inspired Design: Computational Methods and Tools...	2013/07/28 - 15:32	Benyus, book, design, Fish, Goel, Gupta, McAdams, methods, Shu, Stone, Vincent, Yen
Student Sustainable Design Competitions	A list of design competitions, including: RSA student design awards (UK) ...	2013/07/12 - 14:42	competition, sustainability
NASA can help you teach sustainable design	Ann describes a talk on climate change she gave to 10 year olds. The videos I used here were The Carbon Crisis in 90 Seconds and a silent...	2013/07/12 - 15:08	climate change, NASA

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