Biomimicry, Industrial Design Trends, and Creating with Nature’s Genius

For many years, engineering sciences ignored nature’s clever designs and creations, seeing them as a means to an end rather than a collective of connected cells and ecological systems that, one without the other, would not survive. This is the basic premise of sustainability; we’re finally seeing how each stage of creation, however minute the evolution, has its own purpose and is necessary to maintaining balance and a healthy existence for all.

It’s the pioneering efforts of the scientists and ecologists who take a deeper look at our ecosphere, along everything in it, which has helped propel the idea that nature may have the answers to many of our design solutions. They are stripping creation down to the cellular levels and figuratively backengineering nature to figure out how we can use its unique creativity alongside our own. As our world develops, so too do our ideas and notions, breaking through mainstream ideologies that have been in place for time immemorial.