Conversation Janine Benyus on Biomimicry

摘要

In the 1990s, Janine Benyus, a natural sciences writer and the author of several wilderness guides, began to pay close attention to how various organisms adapted to the ecosystems around them. That led her to wonder if similar strategies couldn't be applied to the human problems of the day and whether any such strategies were already being used. Benyus discovered that while people were looking to nature for advice sporadically it was not a formal part of any design process. "I began collecting examples, as writers do, and at first it was a folder and then it was a drawer, and pretty soon it was an entire file cabinet, and I was looking at it, thinking this thing is getting pretty big and it doesn't even have a name," Benyus explains.