BioInspired! So What? Now What!

From Mairbritt Pedersn Zari:

Kia ora kōutōu,
I am guest editing a special issue for Biomimetics Journal (Impact factor 3.743). Here is the call:

"The way we design, construct, and live in buildings and urban environments must change at a great pace and scale and be accompanied by ambitious changes in the theory and practice of architectural and urban design. This Special Issue will investigate how biomimicry can be applied to architectural and urban scales in the design of building materials and components, whole buildings, and cities through the translation and practical application of biological and ecological knowledge, as a way to consider the following questions:

• How specifically can the practice of biomimetics advance architectural technologies at scales from building materials and component systems, through to holistic building, neighbourhood, and city scales? Can biomimicry work on large urban scales?
• Can emulating nature be part of built environment responses to the converging drivers of change related to urbanisation, demographic changes in cities, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and biodiversity loss?
• Can bio-inspired design be used to retrofit existing buildings and cities?
• How can biomimicry inform regenerative living city agendas so that urban environments become resilient even as context changes?

We invite designers, planners, architects, urban ecologists, and scientists to contribute to a transformation of the built environment by submitting stimulating, speculative, and forward-thinking original research, concepts, and case studies that begin to forge a new way to understand, construct, and live in urban contexts through the emulation of nature."

More details and submission information here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomimetics/special_issues/Biomimetics_Urban
I have several free spots for people I invite directly (or possibly friends of friends), so if you are keen let me know so I can reserve one for you.
The deadline is quite soon - 20 September. Feel free to pass on through your networks.
Thanks,
ngā mihi,
Maibritt