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As a regional network of Biomimicry 3.8, Biomimicry Switzerland empowers Swiss educators, businesses and policymakers to sustainably emulate nature's 3.8 billion years of design strategies for human innovation and problem solving.

This process of consulting life’s genius utilises a clear, proven design methodology and effective implementation tools, developed by Biomimicry 3.8 over more than a decade of work with a broad range of stakeholders.  

As a regional network of Biomimicry 3.8, our mission is to empower Switzerland to sustainably emulate nature’s 3.8 billion years of elegant design strategies.  We work with policymakers, business, investors, educators, engineers, architects, designers, and other innovators to translate nature’s genius for the design of products, processes and systems that create conditions conducive to life.

Biomimicry Switzerland is dedicated to reconnecting people with nature, and human systems with natural systems.  Our vision is a high-tech economy that is also an extension of ecology, where human and natural system designs flow seamlessly together. 

Our team offers education and consulting on how natural systems can provide insights into solving systematic sustainability challenges through the emergence of new business models and financial instruments.  We perform economic and financial research, in-depth market analysis, and strategic consulting to entrepreneurs, investors, scientists and policy leaders to help accelerate the commercialisation of biomimetic innovations.  We also develop collaborative partnerships and services to support interdisciplinary exchange and dialogue across industry sectors and regional borders.

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Nature, ecology, connections, biomimicry, biomimetic, bionics, innovation, commercialization, finance, impact investments, design, sustainability, education, entrepreneurs, innovators, network, crowd funding, collaboration, expertise, science, biology, engineering, clean technology, analysis, financial analysis, biomimics, workshops, design challenge, teaching, financial instruments, rating systems, financial architecture, 3D printing, additive manufacturing, material science, scientific expertise, consulting, client relationships, creativity

 

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Pensiero Della Biomimetica

Biomimicry (dal Greco bios, vita, e mimesis, imitazione) è una disciplina di progettazione che ricerca soluzioni sostenibili imitando modelli e strategie della natura consolidati col tempo, ad esempio un pannello solare che si ispira ad una foglia. L’idea di fondo è che la Natura, creativa per necessità, ha già risolto molti dei problemi con cui siamo alle prese: energia, produzione di cibo, controllo del clima, chimica non tossica, trasporti, impacchettamenti, e tanti altri.

Animali, piante e microbi son ingegneri navigati. Hanno trovato ciò che funziona, cosa è adeguato, e soprattutto cosa è durevole qui nella Terra.  Anziché raccogliere organismi, o addomesticarli perché svolgano una funzione per noi, la biomimetica differisce dagli altri “bio-approcci” in quanto consulta organismi e ecosistemi, e ne applica i princìpi sottostanti della progettazione alle nostre innovazioni. Questo approccio conduce ad un contesto completamente nuovo per l’imprenditoria, che può contribuire non solo con progetti innovativi e nella risoluzione di problemi, ma anche nell’informare le persone sull’importanza di conservare la biodiversità nella Terra, che ha molto da insegnarci. (Fonte: Biomimicry 3.8)

“La vita crea condizioni favorevoli alla vita”
— Janine Benyus
Harvesting Desert FogThe Namibian Beetle raises its back into the air as fog rolls into its desert habitat. Bumps on its shell catch water droplets, which then run down chutes toward its mouth. “The design of this fog-collecting structure can be rep…

Harvesting Desert Fog

The Namibian Beetle raises its back into the air as fog rolls into its desert habitat. Bumps on its shell catch water droplets, which then run down chutes toward its mouth. “The design of this fog-collecting structure can be reproduced cheaply on a commercial scale and may find application in water-trapping tent and building coverings,” wrote the authors of a 2001 paper that revealed how the water collection works.

Inventors and designers have taken note. A “Dew Bank Bottle,” designed by Pak Kitae of the Seoul National University of Technology, imitates the beetle’s water-collection system. Morning dew condenses on it and conveys it to a bottle, which has a drinking spout.

(Source: Bloomberg)

Photographs by Michael & Patricia Fogden/Minden Pictures; Courtesy Pak Kitae