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Lab 6

After year of unsustainable design, some companies are turning to nature in order to gain insight into designing things which are more compatible with our natural environment. Biomimicry is a design practice which aims to mimic natures principles through the study of it. For example, Swiss engineer George de Mestral invented velcro after getting the idea from burrs that kept getting stuck to his dog.

Nature is very efficient with using available resources to create sustainable organisms. Nearly all the organism we know today have gone through a long process of evolution to adapt to the changing environment. By borrowing idea from nature, a designer can exploit evolutionary traits to design more sustainable products. Nature also understands that materials are not cheap, and therefore borrowing this idea, products can be designed to use less material and be more efficient at their intended purpose.

By applying ideas from nature, companies can build more sustainable products while at the same time having less negative imopact on the environment. Nature does not produce non degradable waste, and we should be more observant of this to create less toxic and more efficient products.