Author Archives: David Fox

Backyard Biomimicry Workshops – Austin, Vancouver

In this Backyard Biomimicry 3-day workshop, you’ll collaborate with students and professionals of various disciplines to solve your region’s most pressing design challenges, drawing inspiration from the natural world – found right in your own backyard. The workshop includes: (All legs of the events must be registered for in order to attend) Evening lecture:  Latest […]

Rocks au Natural

Making something from nothing, use of readily available resources and cleaver optimisation techniques are key lessons from nature. Investro is a new Australian company with a compelling application that fits well with the emerging  “CleanWeb” category: Rocksolver software uses advanced optimisation algorithms to fit irregular virtual objects together to build stable virtual structures. It is the […]

Ants and Slime Molds Inspire Computing Technology and Beyond

If ‘lowly’ ants and slime mold can build efficient networks without central planning, why can’t we? With a rudimentary brain and no memory, individual ants aren’t particularly clever, but in groups they’ve shown the ability to solve complex problems. Now as researchers gain a deeper understanding of the processes used by these tiny insects, programming […]

Mussels Inspire Benign Glue

Biomimicry + Green Chemistry = New Solutions: “Our aspiration is to learn some new design principles from nature that we haven’t yet actually been using in man-made materials that we can then apply to make man-made materials even better,” said Chicago postdoctoral scholar Niels Holten-Andersen. Continued at: http://www.gizmag.com/ By building on recent advances that used […]

Backyard Biomimicry Workshops

Get some hand on biomimicry experience: Learn about biomimicry in the context of your local ecosystem with the foremost leaders in the field and connect with others in your regional biomimicry network. In this Backyard Biomimicry workshop, you’ll co-learn with students and professionals of various disciplines about the foundations of biomimicry and equip yourself to […]