Ruth Rankin

Final documentation of Manifesto

Image references:

carlera.com

http://plecofishy.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/literature-review.html

Be

Biomimicry is looking at the beauty of nature and replicating it into human form. Biomimicry is the ability to be like nature, to be innovative and explore the possibilities that nature can offer us.

Biomimicry is to see nature and:

Be like nature

Then to Be like nature is to:

Feel like nature

Move like nature

Embrace like nature

Live like nature

Be like nature:

 Be the bird that flies free.

Be the ant that carries 10-50 times more that its own bodyweight. (Ant Factoids, n.d.)

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Innovative

Biomimicry is innovative:

Biomimicry offers us opportunities to change technology products and systems. Biomimicry offers us to be sustainable, economically and environmentally.

Organic

Biomimicry is organic. The way we implement nature into our designs by creating organic forms and naturalistic objects.

Model

Biomimicry is to model nature in a human form. Designing a natural organic model for human to interact.

Biomimicry can be modelled in many forms.  

Industrial

Biomimicry creates industries that are economically and environmentally sustainable.

 The biomimicry industry is expanding and will make a change in the near future.

Move

Move like nature:

Move like a shark how it move through the water. Gliding seamlessly in the ocean deep. Like a shark how swimmers were able to swim like a shark through the pool with Speedo’s LZR Racing suit, seamlessly (literary), (NASA, 2008).

 Move like a bird that aerodynamically moves down toward water. That is mimicked to help high speed trains move smoothly on the track.

 Inspiration

Biomimicry is the inspiration that we get from nature to design and produce organic forms, products and systems for commercial and industrial uses.  

The inspiration we get from nature is first that they have solved most of the problems that we are trying to solve at this very moment.

Creative

Biomimicry is creative.

Creative to make your mind go wild.

Creative to make the world go wild.

Creative to make a replica of what the coral reef is made out of to lower CO2 consumption in the environment.  

Reason

Biomimicry is the way we need to design for the future.

We reason biomimicry in our designs because it is reflecting on what is around us. We reason what is growing before us in front of our very eyes.

We reason biomimicry in our designs because it makes us think of the ways we can be like nature.      

TechnologY and Systems

Biomimicry design is at its peak in creating innovating technology and systems.

Biomimicry technology and systems are becoming a part of our DNA.  

Biomimicry technology and systems are our future.

Embrace it.

Be Innovate Organic Model Industrial Move Inspire Create Reason TechnologY and Systems

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References:

Ant Factoids. (n.d). Retrieved from Ask a biologist: https://askabiologist.asu.edu/content/ant-factoids

Benyus, J. M. (Director). (2009). Biomimicry in action [Motion Picture].

Harman, J. (2013). Jay, H. . The Shark's paintbrush: Biomimicry and how nature is inspiring innovation. Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

Nature has always inspired me creatively as a designer, as a person that is a follower in many sports, and as an individual. The way that we have immersed our-self with nature has is incredible. As Janine Benyus puts it “Nature have been the first ones to solve our problems” (Benyus J. M., Biomimicry in action, 2009). We should design from nature as they offer us so many opportunities for new ways to create, and/ or change products and technology systems, and that is how nature has inspired me as a designer and design thinker.

 As an individual that is a great follower in sports, nature has inspired me through the products and expressions of techniques through various sports. An example of being inspired by nature through products are the racing togs that got banned after the 2008 Olympic games, because they were mimicked by sharks skin and how a shark moves through the water. Sharks are a form of biomimicry based on its form, where a particular mechanical shape, evolved by nature, results in improved performance when applied to engineered devices or tools. (Harman, 2013). This product made the swimmer feel like they were gliding through the water not making any effort.  

 The question we should be asking when designing from nature is What if every inventor, at the moment of creation could ask “How does nature solve this?” (Benyus J. M., Biomimicry in action, 2009). This emphasizes the point that nature plays a huge part in design. How we humans look at nature, at the qualities they express for us to mimic and implement into our own design products, and systems.

 Nature is magnificent in all its beauty that it comes in. The way it portrays itself to us is breath taking. From its tactility in texture, to its form and how it moves around from point A to point B. How you are able to use nature as a precedent and mimic what they have done, or even reverse something that is being un-environmentally friendly to becoming environmentally friendly, and lowering pollution rates. An example of this is the Calera is a cement manufacturing company that have taken the growth form of the coral reef and using that recipe to create building block cement out of CO2. Cement usually emits a ton of CO2 for every ton of cement, it’s reversing the equation and actually sequestering half a ton of CO2 thanks to the recipe from the coral (Benyus J. M., Biomimicry in action, 2009).  A form that is uniquely created in the deep ocean can be mimicked, and made in the hands of man to be environmentally sustainable with a chemical that is polluting the environment.

 I want the future for design to be looking at nature, to see the obstacles that nature has achieved and implement it in with the vast updating technology that is changing the way that we live.

This is biomimicry coming alive within us as a part of our lives. It is forever changing, changing our lives the way we interact, the way we look back at what nature has accomplished and put it into systems that we humans can use.

 References

Benyus, J. M. (Director). (2009). Biomimicry in action [Motion Picture].

Harman, J. (2013).

Critical Writing summary A convincing argument regarding the impact of nature and sustainability on design The impact that nature more specifically biomimicry is having a huge impact on design, and how we use it. For example the Speedo LZR racer suit that got band after the 2008 Beijing Olympics is a form of biomimicry design as it is taking the form of a sharkskin and mimicking it to suit the human body for competitive swimming. Using the qualities a shark has, putting that in a human form and combining it with the latest technology to design a suit that would drastically change swimming technology and the swimming community forever. Soon we will be fearing of more biomimetic innovation is nearing the corner (Harman. J, 2013). Another example that nature is having an impact on how we design now is how architecture is looking at making future buildings more organic formed such as the Hydro-net SF 2108 this is creating buildings for cities that have high densities that is located in a interspersed around extensive aquaculture zone (Myers, W. 2012). Scholarly Sources Harman, J., & Crossley, S. (2013). The shark's paintbrush. Blackstone Audio.

Myers, W. (2012). Bio design. Museum of Modern Art; Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/DAP.

The ideas from the photo's I want to portray from the view of the Flaneur that is wondering through the streets of Wellington City, is that the streets are all structured. Everything is structured. From the architecture of buildings, to the composition of the promotional advertisement posters and cultural art hidden along the alley ways away from the street roads. All of these make up what a city is. This is a reflection of being a Flaneur.

In 2008, Lucas states;

Siting the investigation in the city reflects my own interests which are rooted in my architectural training. It also serves as the context for my own creative practice (pp176).

 The ideas that come out of this quote is that the Flaneur is someone that studies the city, the streets, the alleyways, and everything in between. The images taken reflect structure and culture of the city. How structure has taken formed order into the city. Everything is in order with the structure of the buildings, and the composition of posters and cultural art hidden along the alleyways also exhibit structured.

 When you compare the structure of buildings to the structure in an alleyway shown in the slides that there is more creativity in the alleyway, more freedom and liberty to showcase our culture and emotions of humans that live in the city. Whereas the buildings showcase the side of order in a way of expressing the busy corporate working place, a place of constant structural boundaries.

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The idea I think of a flaneur is that they are a people watcher that form different mindset perspectives of the world environment around them. Looking at a variety of perspectives and contextual environments around them. You can have a playful context mind-set or an ordinary mind-set, (Stenros, J. Montola, M. Mayra, F. 2007). I want to show the vast variety of perspectives around the city. From the different people groups that walk round, to the environment and how we are sustaining it. The different people groups that walk the same route but have a different mind-set on how they take it.