The Practice of Biomimicry

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Explores the process of nature-based design from a methodology-based approach. Deep dives into the biomimicry process and reviews how biology and biomimicry can be incorporated into the four major phases of any design process: scoping, discovering, creating and evaluation. Introduces the art of translating biological concepts into strategies for application and building a taxonomy of design principles. Includes a practicing tools component and a final multi-week group project. Offers the structure for which biomimicry can be put to practice.