Cluster of Excellence Living, Adaptive and Energy-Autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS)

Speck, Thomas; Schulz, Monika; Fischer, Anna; Rühe, Jürgen

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-39928-3_18

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“…Existing educational trails and guided tours about biomimetics can be supplemented at any time with current plant-inspired innovations. A prime example is the installation of the cactus-inspired pavilion in the Botanic Garden Freiburg [ 24 , 25 ]. The pavilion was developed and built by architects and civil engineers of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in collaboration with biologists from the University of Freiburg.…”

Section: Lifelong Learning In Botanical Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only the resin used for impregnating the flax/sisal strands could not entirely be made of bio-based material components at the time that the pavilion was built, a challenge that will be solved in the near future by lignin-based resins. The biomimetic pavilion thus demonstrates the use of natural materials and advanced digital technology in the creation of a sustainable building inspired by biological models [ 25 ].…”

Section: Lifelong Learning In Botanical Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Biomimetics in Botanical Gardens—Educational Trails and Guided Tours

Speck

2023

Biomimetics

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The first botanical gardens in Europe were established for the study of medicinal, poisonous, and herbal plants by students of medicine or pharmacy at universities. As the natural sciences became increasingly important in the 19th Century, botanical gardens additionally took on the role of public educational institutions. Since then, learning from living nature with the aim of developing technical applications, namely biomimetics, has played a special role in botanical gardens. Sir Joseph Paxton designed rainwater drainage channels in the roof of the Crystal Palace for the London World’s Fair in 1881, having been inspired by the South American giant water lily (Victoria amazonica). The development of the Lotus-Effect® at the Botanical Garden Bonn was inspired by the self-cleaning leaf surfaces of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). At the Botanic Garden Freiburg, a self-sealing foam coating for pneumatic systems was developed based on the self-sealing of the liana stems of the genus Aristolochia. Currently, botanical gardens are both research institutions and places of lifelong learning. Numerous botanical gardens provide biomimetics trails with information panels at each station for self-study and guided biomimetics tours with simple experiments to demonstrate the functional principles transferred from the biological model to the technical application. We present eight information panels suitable for setting up education about biomimetics and simple experiments to support guided garden tours about biomimetics.

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Section: Lifelong Learning In Botanical Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Lifelong Learning In Botanical Gardensmentioning

confidence: 99%