Biomimetic Design Method for Innovation and Sustainability
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomimetic Design, Constructions and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 35221
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable design; circular economy; biomimetics; biomimicry; higher education; transferable skills
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An unsustainable lifestyle and economy dominate in many areas of society. Excessive consumption and environmentally damaging production are major causes of climate change and species extinction. Achieving long-term goals to protect the environment and life on Earth thus requires extensive transformations in all sectors of society. Knowledge of the human-made causes and imminent catastrophic consequences of climate change is already widely available and openly communicated. Nevertheless, we cannot foresee whether and how the actions of society, from each individual to industry at large, will change to generate an active contribution to sustainability.
Biomimetics is an innovative way of thinking that can accompany such a shift and push products, processes, and systems towards sustainability. It has led to various successes in recent decades and can have a significant impact on various sectors of society. Numerous other connected approaches, such as biomimicry, biologically inspired design, and circular economies, demonstrate the broad spectrum of opportunities available using a biomimetic design method, which can additionally address several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This Special Issue aim to collect multi-disciplinary contributions from areas such as biology, biomimetics, biomimicry, engineering, and psychology, as well as non-disciplinary areas, including sustainable innovation, circular economies, design methodologies, innovation management, and regenerative societies. This Special Issue will provide insight into the state of the art of a biomimetic design method motivated by innovation and sustainability as well as future opportunities.
Topics of interest include:
- Process of biomimetics;
- Biomimetics as a design method;
- Biomimetic methods to address sustainability;
- Biomimetic innovation;
- Biomimetics and the SDGs;
- Natural systems as models for sustainable design;
- Assessment of sustainable biomimetic development;
- Circular economy;
- Regenerative society and urban design;
- Sustainable economics and its link to biomimetics;
- Consumption and production inspired by nature;
- Psychological aspects of a sustainable lifestyle.
Dr. Shoshanah R. Jacobs
Dr. Kristina Wanieck
Guest Editors
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