natural design

Biomimicry

To Mimic Life.

Lily holds a Master's in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, one of the leading and few colleges in the country teaching Biomimicry at that level.

Currently she's teaching at Pratt Institute a course called Biology for Biomimicry. A course for design students, helping them to translate nature into applicable designs. 

She also has a podcast called Learning from Nature where she uncovers how biomimicry is being successfully applied across disciplines and industries.

Definitely check it out.

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• Nature, and studying nature allows us to access solutions we haven't thought of yet. An intelligence with 3.8 billion years of research and development. That's the tagline.
• At the core of Biomimicry is creating things that are life affirming.
• For those interested in Biomimicry Asknature.org is an amazing resource where you can ask specific questions surrounding natural processes, systems and their applications.

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Thank you Lily for your knowledge and love for the natural world. It's inspiring.

Lily's podcast can be found here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-from-nature-the-biomimicry-podcast-with/id1609982656

Itika Gupta is a founding partner at Studio Carbon, a studio that works at the intersection of design, systems, and storytelling. Through Dungse, cow dung bio-composites, created in collaboration with Studio Lindey Cafsia, they aim at giving the age-old natural material cow dung a contemporary spin by combining modern design skills with ancient indigenous knowledge. 

To read the show notes click here

For people who are visually inclined watch the episode on Youtube.

💩Time Stamps 

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:02:34 - Background story 

00:04:53 - Why choose Cow Dung? 

00:09:18 - Dungse raw materials and experiments 

00:12:28 - Dungse applications 

00:16:15 - Biocomposite properties 

00:19:20 - Biomaterials and innovation 

00:22:00 - Design infrastructure in Netherlands and India 

00:25:34 - Future of circularity in India 

00:28:12 - Open source information vs Intellectual Property 

00:31:47 - Response to Dungse as a product 

00:34:55 - Vision for Dungse 

00:38:12 - Importance of intersection of design and science 

00:40:21 - Biomaterials with potential 

00:44:20 - Key challenges with Biomaterials adoption 

00:48:45 - Experiments at Studio Carbon 

00:51:47 - Dreams ahead 

00:51:47 - What if...

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Imagine a deep ecological  thinker that lives in the breathtaking Spanish Pyrenees in a 700 year old hand-built house that captures all of its own energy from the sun, harvests all the water it needs from the rain, and invites nature into the heart of the home.

That is Emmanuel Pauwels. 

Emmanuel is a Regenerative Practitioner through and through. From the way that he designs buildings to the regenerative leadership he instills in Green Living Projects, a European-based consultancy that he founded in 2009. Emmanuel is part soothsayer, part philosopher and on this interview helps to expand our awareness of how we can evolve not just real estate design and construction of individual home sites, but the entire development process so that the built environment can enable all life on this planet to co-evolve.

By providing frameworks like the Five Capitals, Emmanuel uses his real life experience to talk about how all forms of capital (natural, social, physical, financial, and human) need a return. He lets constraints guide the creativity and showcases how capital can be interchanged to continue to propel a project forward.

If you are looking for ways to help move beyond the sustainability paradigm of doing less bad, Emmanuel Pauwels is someone that must be on your radar.

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