the built world-nature inspired natural world and built environment
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• The surface of the leaf has tiny, tiny, bumps on it, that you can’t even see with the naked eye.
• The bumps cause water to ball up and the balls of water slide along the leaf, pulling off dirt particles as they go.
Using biomimicry, people have learned to make…
Shoes that grip like a mountain
goat.
T-shirts that resist sweat like a horned lizard.
Vitamins based on the diet of forest
apes.
Fasteners that stick like burs.
Computer screens that create color the same way as wings
of a butterfly.
Computers as fast as
neurons.
Systems interconnected like
trees in an old-growth forest.
Spiders (webs) http://isadikin.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/interlude-2-the-web-spinner/
What manmade structure was inspired by spider webs?
Drag is every swimmer’s worst enemy, one that yields only grudgingly to strength, conditioning
and determination. The company says the three-piece system produces a 16.6 percent
reduction in full body passive drag, a 5.2 percent reduction in full body active drag and a 63.4 percent reduction of force on the goggle.
Michael Phelps – 2008 (Video)
Research
• Pair or group children based on interest.
• Have them research elements of nature.
• Generate ideas from nature to improve on their common interest.
Those who are inspired by a model other than
Nature, a mistress above all masters, are laboring
in vain. - Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most famous Renaissance Man. He was one of the most famous artists of all time but he was also a scientist and inventor. Da Vinci liked
to experiment with his materials. His experiments were not always successful. Da Vinci’s inventive nature was also responsible for inventing a flying machine hundreds of years before the Wright brothers left the
ground. Da Vinci was truly a creative genius.
Leonardo da Vinci
Birds – Da Vinci’s Sketches of Early Flying Machines
The human-powered mechanical flight device, patterned after birds and bats.