“Learning about the natural world is one thing; learning from the natural world — that’s the switch,” Benyus says. She shares many experiences she has had in teaching engineers to learn from nature.
She asks:
- How does life create things? (Life does not “heat, beat and treat”)
- How does life make the most of things? (Life gives information to matter)
- How does life make things disappear in a system? (Because life deals with systems, not things)
Janine Benyus: Biomimicry’s surprising lessons from nature’s engineers