COMPANY VISION:
To naturalize biomimicry in the design profession in order to increase respect for the natural world and create well-adapted and life-friendly products and processes.
To create flow structure for ideas from biology to design by:
- Building tools
- Building capacity of people, and
- Supporting practitioners' successes
THE GUILD FOCUS:
Bio-inspired Innovation that leads to:
- Sustainable, well-adapted and life-friendly products and processes
- Solutions to major environmental challenges
- Respect for the natural world
- Conservation
- The naturalization of Biomimicry in the design profession
HOW THE BIOMIMICRY GUILD CAN HELP:
For centuries, biologists have been in labs and fields taking notes on the adaptive strategies life has developed. Unfortunately, much of this information is inaccessible, locked up in technical, scientific papers written for other biologists, and rarely organized by engineering or design function.
The Biomimicry Guild has proven methods and experience in accessing this information. We have a staff of biologists, known as BaDTs (Biologists at the Design Table), who excel at searching through biological research to find the natural strategies that meet your company’s challenges, and then assessing which of those designs, chemical recipes, or system strategies are most promising for your needs. Our staff is also adept at taking complex and technical biological data and translating it into language digestible by any business department, from marketing to R&D.
Download our 2009-10 Complete Product & Service Reference (released November 2008):
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- Comprehensive Research into how nature has solved your company’s challenges.
- Strategic Advice on how your company can implement the most promising of nature’s strategies for your products and processes.
- Tools to help your company create sustainable, innovative, effective, cost-saving and life-friendly products and processes.
- Biologists at the Design Table who become part of your company’s team from brainstorm to prototype, continually adding biological insight to the process.
- Dial-a-Biologist on-call biology experts who can speak your language, answering technical questions and brainstorming ways that nature’s ideas can help improve a product or process.
- Lectures and Workshops to introduce Biomimicry into your company’s innovation process.
- Detailed list of Biomimicry Guild Services
The Biomimicry Guild has a wide range of experienced speakers to talk to your organization about the potential of Biomimicry and the methods of implementing Biomimicry ideas. For more information and to request a speaker, fill out our