Nature, Design & Biomimicry

admittedly, i haven't read this entire interview, but the idea of bringing humanity back to nature -- bringing design, architecture, and our "professional selves" back to nature -- is really interesting.

my favorite line from the whole thing might be suri's response to the question of how nature-inspired design approaches might affect our "designed environment":

The promise is that we will design beautiful products and systems that elegantly fulfill human purposes and at the same time benefit other life forms in our environment. That means designing and building with new ecological principles in mind: being adaptive to context (rather than controlling it), dynamic and flexible (rather than fixed and resistant) and designing solutions that can become increasingly complex and diverse over time.

--chk