Dr. Dayna Baumeister - Biomimicry: What We Risk If We Ignore Nature's Design

Our guest in this podcast episode is Dr. Dayna Baumeister, a researcher, consultant, and educator in the field of biomimicry. She is the the co-founder  Biomimicry 3.8., a project that trains change-makers in sustainable design principles inspired by nature’s forms, processes, and ecosystems.

Dayna and her business partner Janine Benyus have developed the biomimicry movement as a response to the world’s sustainability problems.

In this episode we talk about how we can learn from nature to be more resilient and self-sustainable, raise better adapted kids, and adopt the everyday practices to improve our chances of overcoming the climate and economic challenges ahead.

In This Episode of Future Thinkers:

• What is biomimicry and how it informs systems design and decision making


• Why teaching resilience is key to the education for uncertain future


• The role of developing countries in providing innovative and creative solutions to social, economic and climate challenges


• What are some of the potential scenarios of the future


• Why global scaling of technological solutions almost never works long-term


• How communities can be created that are more sustainable, healthy and in line with nature


• Four C's and 26 Life's Principles as guidelines for agency and systems change


• How to apply biomimicry principles to social innovation and human interactions

Every version of scaling must include a local attunement component. It's one of the Life's Principles, that nature is locally attuned and responsive. - @DaynaBaumeister

Mentions From This Episode:

• Biomimicry 3.8


• The Biomimicry Institute


• Designlens: Life's Principles download


• P21 - Partnership for 21st Century Learning


• Dana Meadows, systems thinker


• HOK, a design, architecture, engineering and urban planning company


• Zelfo Technology

More From Future Thinkers:

• FTP106, 107: Nora Bateson - The Complexities of Climate Change and Cultural Evolution


• FTP105: Jim Rutt - Game B: The Fifth Attractor, A New Social OS


• FTP090, 091: Joe Brewer - Rites of Passage for Cultural Evolution


• FTP081, 082: Charles Eisenstein - The New Story of Climate And Humanity