After living in a small apartment in a large city for a long time, I’ve come face-to-face with my need for outdoor enjoyment. I travel hours and hours to ‘get away’ to walk through the woods near where I grew up or visit the beach. For people who need a significant amount of time inContinue reading “How to live in New York City and still be inspired by nature”
Category Archives: biomimicry
Imagine Designing Spring
Janine Banyus is a pioneer in the field of biomimicry, and in her most recent talk on TED she calls on designers and innovators to ask ‘how does nature do this?’ when working on an invention or design solution. She points out that every organism in nature uses their resources and tools efficiently in orderContinue reading “Imagine Designing Spring”
Organic Design
SolidThinking is a new achitectural design software that allows designers to scan a basic sketch in and create a nature-inspired design using the morphogenesis tool. In this New York Times blog post, they mention that this gives designers a valuable automated tool. The software creates curves and organic shapes where there were none before, andContinue reading “Organic Design”