Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.
Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate)is a new science that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example. I think of it as “innovation inspired by nature.”
The science and art of emulating Nature’s best biological ideas to solve human problems.
The etymological meaning of Biomimicry gives us the most basic definition of Biomimicry: to imitate life. It is also sometimes referred as biomimetics, and is often used to describe man-made processes and substances that imitate nature. According to the Biomimicry Institute, the goal is “to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.” The reason why biomimicry has became more popular with time is because people are looking for more sustainable ways to do things and organisms know how to do it.
Even though we as humans are clever and thinking beings, without intending to, we have created massive sustainability problems for future generations. Some of these damages cannot be fixed, but if we look carefully, we can realize that the solution to some of these problems are just across our eyes, taking place nature.