Biomimicry and the Design Revolution: the New Intelligence
August 3, 2011
This photo is of artist Theo Jansen’s Rhinoceros and is brought to you by Octa, creators of the Whale Kit iPad Handle.
Humankind has a proud history of developing technology. Defined by the Greeks as technologia, it is the creation and use of tools, techniques, crafts and systems in order to solve problems or affect purposes. As soon as we humans recognized our mortality, we began using fire, clothing, and farming to distance ourselves from the vicissitudes of nature.
In the quest for comfort and material security, our species spent thousands of years separating itself from nature. Now designers are looking back to the natural world out of reverence for its evolutionary intelligence. Nature, it turns out, already has the solutions to many of our problems. (more…)
