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The term biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words ‘bios’, meaning life, and ‘mimesis’, meaning to imitate. Other terms often used are bionics, bio-inspiration, and biognosis.
Biomimicry is about looking to nature for inspiration for new inventions. It’s learning to live gracefully on this planet by consciously emulating survival strategies and design functions of organisms that are around much longer than humans are. It’s not really technology or biology, it’s the technology of biology. It’s making a fiber like a spider.
Biomimicry’s merit lies in the notion that organisms are the consummate physicists, chemists, and engineers, and that ecosystems are economies beyond compare. People in the field of biomimicry – biomimics – look and learn from nature to create new products, processes, and policies (new ways of living) that are well adapted to life on earth over the long haul. They‘re learning to grow food like a prairie, adhere like a gecko, sequester carbon like a mollusk, create color like a peacock and run a business like a redwood forest.
Biomimicry is not about what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from nature. This shift from learning about nature to learning from nature requires a new method of inquiry, a new set of lenses, and above all, a new humility.
Biomimicry is a design discipline, a branch of science, a problem-solving method, a sustainability ethos, a movement, a stance toward nature, a new way of viewing and valuing biodiversity.