How Does Biologically Inspired Design Cope with Multi-Functionality?

Svendsen, Nicklas Werge; Lenau, Torben Anker

doi:10.1017/dsi.2019.38

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“…In that perspective, expertise in artistic and industrial design appear as a clear asset (Letard et al 2018). It will also lead them to strengthen the team's holistic standpoint which is often missing to stakeholders highly specialized in their own field (Svendsen and Lenau 2019).…”

Section: A Combination Of Expertise From Biology and Designmentioning

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Biomimetics from practical feedback to an interdisciplinary process

Graeff

Letard

Raskin³

et al. 2021

Res Eng Design

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Biomimetics has been a subject of increasing interest but, where it has proven its scientific relevance and innovative potential from a theoretical standpoint, it remains rarely used in practice. Facing this lack of implementation, our work aimed at asking practitioners for their help to better understand the remaining impediments preventing biomimetics' blooming. Thus, practitioners' feedback and experts' opinion on risks, adequacy and weaknesses of the current biomimetic practices were gathered and structured to present an extensive descriptive phase on biomimetic processes. Key levers for improvements, such as the need for a better risk management, the need for biological expertise and the need for clear guidance during the process, were then identified. Based on these insights various methodological contributions are prescribed. Among these inputs, the duration of the various steps of the biomimetic process was estimated through industrial projects' feedback, semantics misunderstandings were tackled, and the integration of a new transdisciplinary profile combining an expertise in both design and biology is proposed. From these improvements, a new version of the unified problem-driven biomimetic process is proposed. A final descriptive phase performed through the evaluation of the new process by professionals underlined its relevancy along with the remaining research axes. Through the integration of a new profile matching the practitioners' current needs and the adaptation of the process to their feedback, this article aims at proposing a biomimetic process fitting the reality of biomimetic practice in order to support its implementation.

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Section: A Combination Of Expertise From Biology and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetics from practical feedback to an interdisciplinary process

Graeff

Letard

Raskin³

et al. 2021

Res Eng Design

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“…However, despite the proliferation of the literature, our understanding of biologically inspired design remains modest. For example, much of the literature on biologically inspired design makes several, often unstated and largely unexamined, assumptions: that the design process is independent of the domain as well as the scale of the biological source of inspiration (e.g., Benyus 1997;Vincent & Mann 2002;Vincent et al 2006;Baumeister et al 2012;Goel et al 2016c); that the process results in designs that are efficient or multifunctional or both (Benyus 1997;Vincent & Mann 2002;Vincent et al 2006;Baumeister et al 2012;Goel et al 2016b;Svendsen & Lenau 2019); that it leads to design fixation (e.g., Fu et al 2014); and that it produces designs that more creative or more sustainable or both (as indicated in the above paragraph). But are these assumptions valid?…”

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Multifunctional and domain independent? A meta-analysis of case studies of biologically inspired design

Goel

Hancock

2021

Des. Sci.

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Much of the literature on biologically inspired design makes two, often unstated and largely unexamined, assumptions: (i) The process of biologically inspired design is independent of the biological domain, and (ii) the design process leads to multifunctional designs. In this paper, we perform a meta-analysis of 74 case studies of biologically inspired design in the Design Study Library. We begin by noting that biologically inspired design has two core processes: problem-driven design and solution-based design. We find that the first assumption about the domain independence of these design processes is questionable. Our analysis indicates that the problem-driven process of biologically inspired design is more prevalent in some domains, whereas the solution-based design process is more common in other domains. Our analysis also indicates that the solution-based process leads to multifunctional designs more often than the problem-driven process. These findings may have useful implications not only for building information-processing theories of biologically inspired design, but also for developing pedagogical techniques for teaching about the paradigm and computational tools for supporting its practice.

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“…Despite the examples of BID application recalled in Section 1, the diffusion of BID is still limited. A possible reason might be hardships to make BID work for industrial projects, as products are often multifunctional while BID addresses a problem at once (Svendsen and Lenau, 2019). The complexity of nowadays' products and systems, which straightforwardly features the manufacturing industry more than product design and B2C fields, represents a clear obstacle for BID diffusion in its current stage of development.…”

Section: Bid Criticalities For Industrial Product Development Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Speculation on the Potential Support of Bio-Inspired Design to Biologicalisation in Manufacturing

Farzaneh¹,

Borgianni

Forti

et al. 2021

Proc. Des. Soc.

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The paper investigates to what extent the knowledge accumulated in the field of Bio-Inspired Design might benefit the process of biologicalisation in manufacturing. According to visions making inroads in the manufacturing field, the latter will not be limited to the consideration and the analysis of biological principles as a source of inspiration for solving technical and organizational problems. In fact, the process of biologicalisation in manufacturing foresees the development of bio-integrated and bio-intelligent systems. In light of these expected developments, Bio-Inspired Design’s might fail to support the whole transition to take place in the manufacturing field. Methodological limitations still to overcome represent an important barrier in this perspective too. While a transfer of knowledge from the design to the manufacturing domain seems unlikely, the authors individuate aspects that encourage cross-fertilization between Bio-Inspired Design and biologicalisation in manufacturing. These include the need to include biologists in engineering teams, the objective of sustainable development, and a shared attention to the evolution of (Design for) Additive Manufacturing.

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How Does Biologically Inspired Design Cope with Multi-Functionality?

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Biomimetics from practical feedback to an interdisciplinary process

Biomimetics from practical feedback to an interdisciplinary process

Multifunctional and domain independent? A meta-analysis of case studies of biologically inspired design

A Speculation on the Potential Support of Bio-Inspired Design to Biologicalisation in Manufacturing

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