Role of Biologists in Biomimetic Design Processes: Preliminary Results

Graeff, Eliot; Maranzana, Nicolas; Aoussat, Améziane

doi:10.21278/idc.2018.0426

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“…This proposal is corroborated by Chirazi et al who stressed the need to work with profiles having strong interdisciplinary capabilities, thus raising the issue of teaching and training of profiles involved in the biomimetic approach [9]. To define the knowledge and skills of this new "mediator" profile, the competences present in biomimetic projects are currently being studied [11], [12], [29]. Graeff et al investigated the biological expertise and engineering knowledge to be combined through this new profile [10].…”

Section: Contribution Of the Results For The Definition Of A Biomimetic "Mediator" Profilementioning

confidence: 95%

How Do Designers Impact the Biomimetic Concepts Typology?

Letard¹,

Graeff²,

Maranzana³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education

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Biomimetics has undergone an increasing development over the last decade. Most of the conducted research relative to its operational practice has focused on the formalization of biomimetic processes and the development of tools adapted to the specificities of biomimetics. Here we adopt a complementary point of view: the analysis of the impact of the profiles composing the biomimetic design teams. This article focuses more particularly on the analysis of the impact of the involvement of designers from artistic and industrial backgrounds, on the typology of biomimetic concepts generated from biological information. This study was carried out through a student experiment that compares the biomimetic concepts generated by teams composed either of engineers or a mix of designers and engineers. We studied these concepts according to 4 criteria: the number of concepts generated, originality, feasibility and finally their contextualization. This analysis allowed us to identify new relevant skillsdesigners skills -to be integrated in the training of biomimetic practitioners and especially in that of a new profile: the biomimetic "mediator" profile.

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Section: Contribution Of the Results For The Definition Of A Biomimetic "Mediator" Profilementioning

confidence: 95%

How Do Designers Impact the Biomimetic Concepts Typology?

Letard¹,

Graeff²,

Maranzana³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education

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“…Each of these topics is linked to several research questions which must be addressed in further studies. For example, the role of team members is of interest, as current literature indicates [59,60]. Additionally, an assessment of problems that can be addressed with BID would be of help to fulfill the demands of the process, and strategies for patenting and funding would help to support future users.…”

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What Do We Learn from Good Practices of Biologically Inspired Design in Innovation?

Chirazi¹,

Wanieck

Fayemi³

et al. 2019

Applied Sciences

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Biologically inspired design (BID) is an emerging field of research with increasing achievements in engineering for design and problem solving. Its economic, societal, and ecological impact is considered to be significant. However, the number of existing products and success stories is still limited when compared to the knowledge that is available from biology and BID research. This article describes success factors for BID solutions, from the design process to the commercialization process, based on case studies and market analyses of biologically inspired products. Furthermore, the paper presents aspects of an effective knowledge transfer from science to industrial application, based on interviews with industrial partners. The accessibility of the methodological approach has led to promising advances in BID in practice. The findings can be used to increase the number of success stories by providing key steps toward the implementation and commercialization of BID products, and to point out necessary fields of cooperative research.

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“…However, even if the potentialities of biology in design are well established, biologists remain mainly excluded of the design practice. Nonetheless, several articles have been published with the objective of exposing the assets that are biologists in biomimetics (Graeff et al, 2018a;Snell-Rood, 2016), their inputs during creativity steps (Schöfer, 2015), innovative problem-solving approach (Schöfer et al, 2018), etc. One of our initial reflection on the articles dealing with biomimetic process or tools is that the required profiles of the practitioners remain most of the time unspecified.…”

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Engineers’ and Biologists’ Roles during Biomimetic Design Processes, Towards a Methodological Symbiosis

Graeff¹,

Maranzana²,

Aoussat³

2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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The strength of biomimetics comes from its ability to draw from life mechanisms and strategies to design innovative solutions. In spite of recent methodological progresses, more specifically on tools and processes, biomimetics' implementation still faces strong difficulties. Among other things, design teams have a hard time finding and selecting relevant biological strategies. Facing these challenges, we consider an alternative, yet well recognized, approach: the integration of profiles having a training in natural science within biomimetic design teams. As biologists aren't used to work in design teams, there is a need for a process actually guiding their practice in biomimetics and determining the way they will interact with the “traditional” design team. After studying the literature and asking for experts' opinion on the matter, we introduced a biomimetic design process considering this new profile as an integral part of biomimetic design teams. With the final goal of making biomimetics implementable, this proposed theoretical process is currently tested in both a student and an industrial project in order to optimize our methodological contribution with practical feedbacks.

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Role of Biologists in Biomimetic Design Processes: Preliminary Results

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

How Do Designers Impact the Biomimetic Concepts Typology?

How Do Designers Impact the Biomimetic Concepts Typology?

What Do We Learn from Good Practices of Biologically Inspired Design in Innovation?

Engineers’ and Biologists’ Roles during Biomimetic Design Processes, Towards a Methodological Symbiosis

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