natureinspired

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

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‘Trying to connect to nature itself is healing in a way, because it kind of gets you out of your own, I guess, worries, and thoughts and problems in your own mind and asks you to observe something.’

In this episode, Mugdha talks about an urge to connect to nature in a more sensory manner: smelling things, touching things and feel them that is different from simply walking in the park and breathing in fresh air. We also talk about Ayurveda, holistic healing and what ritual means to us.

• Mugdha’s online shop Kindred + Wild and Instagram
• a blogpost Mugdha wrote about Ritual v/s Routine
• Creative Countryside

Recommended books we talk about in this episode:

• Second Skin - India Flint
• Eco Colour - India Flint
• The Thinking Hand - Juhani Pallasmaa
• The Enchanted Life - Sharon Blackie
• If Women Rose Rooted - Sharon Blackie

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The music for the podcast is by Band of Burns ‘Now Westlin' Winds’ song that was recorded live at Union Chapel in 2017. I used this song with the band’s permission.

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