Simple examples regarding biomimicry

Agenda for "Outdoor Biology" 2010

To day we are starting up exploring how nature has inspired man, both in architecture, technical applications, fashion and much more. This blog will be used as an portfolio - in three steps. First the planning part, then secondly a field trip where we will be gathering inspiration and collecting materials for use at the third time, where we will be constructing, modeling or creating something, not yet known....Here is a good example below: 

The top picture shows a burdock, that gave inspiration to a swiss engineer in 1948, while he was cleaning his dog from burrs, an inspiration to create what we know to day as velcro .....

Nicolai