Helping teams apply biomimicry thinking and leverage nature’s strategies in the design process
Bite sized biomimicry consulting service
Applying nature’s genius to unlock ideas
CHALLENGE: Create an easy way for organizations to integrate biomimicry thinking into their design process and discover more efficient and effective solutions.
APPROACH: Co-founded with biologist Timothy McGee of Seattle based studio LikoLab, Nature Bites emerged from a need to create awareness and understanding for applying biomimicry at systemic levels—not solely for physical or mechanical product innovation, but for more complex challenges as well—civic planning, social issues, organizational design, and design for social change. Life on Earth has spent billions of years evolving solutions to every problem imaginable, Nature Bites offers easy access this vibrant living resource of nature's evolved solutions. We work with design teams to unlock new opportunities and insights that lead to successful and sustainable outcomes.
RESULTS: Our Nature Bites process is simple, quick, and inspiring – a structured 30 minute session to define the problem, 3 days of research and synthesis on our end, then a 1 hour video workshop to deliver and socialize nature’s solutions and insights. We provide real value by connecting our clients to 3.8 billion years of research and development. Our output of easy-to-digest visual case studies creates sticky mental models that unlock new ways of seeing and solving the problem at hand. We do it all quickly and without breaking the project budget.