RESEARCH IN BIO-INSPIRED DESIGN - WHAT IS ITS CURRENT FOCUS?
Year: 2018
Editor: Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Marie-Luise Domke, Helena Hashemi Farzaneh
Series: ICDC
Section: BIO-INSPIRED CREATIVITY
Page(s): 314-321
ISBN: 9781912254071
Abstract
Bio-inspired design is an increasingly popular creativity and innovation method. Using bio-inspired design, designers tap nature with its almost unlimited pool of inspirations for technical solutions. A challenge of bio-inspired design is finding promising biological systems and identifying analogies which can be transferred to solve a technical problem. For these challenges, the profound understanding of the biological system is necessary. This can require further research. To understand the current focus of bio-inspired design research, we analyse journal publications from 2015/16 and 2006. The analysis provides an overview of the biological systems and organization levels currently in focus. Moreover, we regard the technical products resulting from the bio-inspired designs. The results show designers which biological systems and organization levels have been researched for bio-inspired design so that knowledge on them can directly be used for further technical developments. The blank spots of research are identified which can provide unexplored biological inspirations.
Keywords: biomimicry, biomimetics, design-by-analogy