Readings: Biomimicry Primer

Reading 1

Check out this short, highly visual and comprehensive introduction to biomimicry and biomimetic design: 14 Smart Inventions Inspired by Nature: Biomimicry Links to an external site.. Published to Bloomberg Business (online magazine) on February 23, 2015. Written by Amelia Hennighausen and Eric Roston.

 

Reading 2

This piece, A Biomimicry Primer Download A Biomimicry Primer

, published in 2009 and written by Janine Benyus Links to an external site., author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (1997), as part of the Biomimicry Resource Handbook.

This article is shared for educational purposes with permission for use as a resource provided to Cindy Gilbert by the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute Education Network. Gilbert is a Biomimicry Education Fellow and to the Minneapolis Collage of Art and Design as a Biomimicry Affiliate School. Please do not reproduce or share.

 

There will be short quiz at the end of this Lesson.