On designers’ use of biomimicry tools during the new product development process: an empirical investigation

Appio, Francesco Paolo; Achiche, Sofiane; Martini, Antonella; Beaudry, Catherine

doi:10.1080/09537325.2016.1236190

Cited by 7 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Frameworks for selection of energy efficient (Sara and Noureddine 2015) and material efficient biological-analogies for a given problem have been proposed (O'Rourke et al 2015).Researchers combined biomimetics with TRIZ to generate design-solutions (Vincent et al 2006;Craig et al 2008;Baldussu and Cascini 2015). Computational tools to search for biological-analogies have also been proposed (Chakrabarti et al 2005;Vattam et al 2011;Cheong and Shu 2012;Kaiser, Hashemi, and Lindemann2012;Murphy et al 2013;Deldin and Schuknecht 2014;Tsenn et al 2016), and comparative analyses of these tools, on various parameters, have been carried out (Appio et al 2016).…”

Section: 1design Methods For Novel Idea Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing novelty of designs from biological-inspiration with those from brainstorming

Keshwani

Lenau

Ahmed‐Kristensen

et al. 2017

Journal of Engineering Design

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: 1design Methods For Novel Idea Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing novelty of designs from biological-inspiration with those from brainstorming

Keshwani

Lenau

Ahmed‐Kristensen

et al. 2017

Journal of Engineering Design

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Some include databases to search for biological adaptations. The ones with no databases provide other means of investigation including linguistic approaches to define commonalities between nature and design, systematic analogical translation to find biological systems [18,22,23,[34][35][36][37].…”

Section: Existing Biomimetic Design Framework To Develop Bio-absmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Framework to Achieve Multifunctionality in Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Building skins should host multiple functions for increased performance. Addressing this, their design can benefit by learning from nature to achieve multifunctionality, where multifunctional strategies have evolved over years. However, existing frameworks to develop biomimetic adaptive building skins (Bio-ABS) have limited capabilities transferring multifunctionality from nature into designs. This study shows that through investigating the principles of hierarchy and heterogeneity, multifunctionality in nature can be transferred into biomimetic strategies. We aim at mapping the existing knowledge in biological adaptations from the perspective of multifunctionality and developing a framework achieving multifunctionality in Bio-ABS. The framework is demonstrated through the case study of Echinocactus grusonii implemented as a Bio-ABS on a digital base-case building. The methods include the Bio-ABS case study demonstrating the framework and simulating the performance of the case study and base-case building to comparatively analyze the results. The outcomes are a framework to develop multifunctional Bio-ABS and simulation results on the performance improvement Bio-ABS offer. The performance comparison between the Bio-ABS and base-case building show that there is a decrease in the discomfort hours by a maximum of 23.18%. In conclusion, translating heterogeneity and hierarchy principles in nature into engineered designs is a key aspect to achieve multifunctionality in Bio-ABS offering improved strategies in performance over conventional buildings.

show abstract

“…As designers and engineers increasingly look to biology as a source of analogous solutions [1], there is a need that grows in parallel for clearer biomimicry methods and techniques that make biological information accessible and useful to design and engineering challenges [2]. The biomimicry practitioner community includes a wide range of professions [3], including product and industrial designers [4], engineers [5], architects [6], materials scientists [7], and the biologists they collaborate with [8]. For the purpose of this research, 'designers and engineers' refers to those practitioners working in three-dimensional design at any scale as a convenient umbrella term.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performance Based Abstraction of Biomimicry Design Principles using Prototyping

Rovalo

McCardle

2019

Designs

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A key challenge faced by biomimicry practitioners is making the conceptual leap between biology and design, particularly regarding collaborating across these knowledge domains and developing and evaluating design principles abstracted from biology. While many tools and resources to support biomimicry design exist, most largely rely on semantic techniques supporting analogical translation of information between biology and design. However, the challenges of evaluation and collaboration are common in design practice and frequently addressed through prototyping. This study explores the utility of prototyping in the unique context of biomimicry by investigating its impact on the abstraction and transfer of design principles derived from biology as well as on cross-domain collaboration between biologists and designers. Following a survey exploring current practices of practitioners, in depth interviews provided detailed accounts of project experiences that leveraged prototyping. Four primary themes were observed: (1) Approximation; (2) The Prototyping Principle; (3) Synthesis and Testing; and (4) Validation. These themes introduce a unique abstraction and transfer process based on form-finding and collaborative performance evaluation in contrast to the widely accepted semantic language-based approaches. Our findings illustrate how designers and engineers can leverage a prototyping skillset in order to develop boundary objects between the fields of biology and design to navigate challenges uniquely associated with the biomimicry approach.

show abstract

On designers’ use of biomimicry tools during the new product development process: an empirical investigation

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Comparing novelty of designs from biological-inspiration with those from brainstorming

Comparing novelty of designs from biological-inspiration with those from brainstorming

A Framework to Achieve Multifunctionality in Biomimetic Adaptive Building Skins

Performance Based Abstraction of Biomimicry Design Principles using Prototyping

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About