DesignLens: Life's Principles - Biomimicry 3.8
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DesignLens: Life's Principles - Biomimicry 3.8
“Life runs on sunlight. Life rewards cooperation. Life builds from the bottom up. Life banks on diversity. Life recycles everything. Life builds resilience through diversity, decentralization, and redundancy. Life optimizes rather than maximizes. Life selects for the good of the whole system. In short, life creates the conditions conducive to life.... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Natural Intelligence
The collaborators in the BCI network have used the list of ‘Life’s Principles’ developed by the Biomimicry Institute (see Chapter 6) and have turned them into “a set of business principles for the firm of the future”
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
The text outlines the principles and methodology of biomimicry, emphasizing nature's strategies as sustainable design inspirations, and presenting frameworks for integrating biological insights into human innovations.
LinkInvolves six principles to encompass nature and non-human beings; zoom in and out across time, scale and self; and embrace circularity, existing assets and re-use, rather than an emphasis on new.
Cat Drew • Developing our new Systemic Design Framework
Take the burgeoning field of biomimicry, for example. Biomimicry looks to nature for solutions to modern problems — after all, Mother Earth has had 3.8 billion years to work out all the design kinks. Biomimetics requires practitioners to be more than engineers, more than biologists, more than ecologists, more than designers, and more than inventors... See more
Harvard Business Review • In Defense of Polymaths
As we explored in Chapter 6, pioneers in green chemistry and material science, bio-inspired technologies, product design, architecture, industrial ecology, and community, urban and regional planning are already living the questions of regenerative design inspired by life’s principles.
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
To discover the essence of generous design, she suggests that we take nature as our model, measure and mentor. With nature as model, we can study and mimic life’s cyclical processes of take and give, death and renewal, in which one creature’s waste becomes another’s food. As measure, nature sets the ecological standard by which to judge the sustain
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
We then distill our research into key interconnected principles that underlie systemic health and collectively represent the eight principles of a Regenerative Economy: 1. In Right Relationship. 2. Views Wealth Holistically 3. Innovative, Adaptive, Responsive 4. Empowered Participation 5. Honors Community and Place 6. Edge Effect Abundance 7. Robus... See more