@BionicCity

Bionic City® (est. 2010) asking how would nature design a city? Founded by @MelissaSterry #biodesign #biomaterials #biophilia #bioinspired #biofuturism

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Do wildlife crossings benefit climate connectivity? New research highlights the role of wildlife crossings in climate adaptation 🦌conservationcorridor.org/dig…

Wildlife crossings as a tool to mitigate climate change - Conservation Corridor

Wildlife crossings - the overpasses, underpasses, fencing, and other structures that traverse or surround linear infrastructure - are good at keeping wildlife connected. They help individuals move...

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Hundreds of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, lifting objects hundreds of times their weight. Read more: newscientist.com/article/246…
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Researchers in Switzerland have created luminous wood, a composite material based on hardwood with bioluminescent properties. The new material could be used for designer furniture, jewellery or eco-friendly home lighting.⁠ ⁠Read more: newscientist.com/article/mg2…
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Pyrophytic Architecture™: Design for Living with Wildfire - Design scientist Dr. Melissa Sterry explores how we might learn how to live with wildfire from plants that have already done so. Book a place on Eventbrite at eventbrite.com/e/pyrophytic-… #designforwildfire
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Mark Carine@mark_carine6 Dec 2024
Fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship on 'Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium'. Come and work on the Sloane Herbarium! For details, see: lahp.ac.uk/prospective-stude…
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Design for Wildfire school: a new school of nature-inspired design thought coming in 2025 panarchiccodex.com/design-fo…
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Researchers at Tufts University have created the first web-slinging technology. Their device shoots silk-based fluid that instantly solidifies into super-sticky, strong fibres—strong enough to lift objects 80 times their weight. Learn more about silk: newscientist.com/article/227…
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From Flames to Foundations: Biomimicry's role in designing fire-resilient cities speakersassociates.com/from-… #designforwildfire
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.@melissasterry shares insights into her design for living with wildfire modelled on plants that have evolved to live with wildfire. designdecode.org/melissa-ste… #designforwildfire
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Are you concerned about pharmaceutical waste in our water systems? Algae might be the green solution to clean it up! urbanevolution-litc.com/2024… #CleanWater #EcoTech #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution
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Find links to articles on our work in Design for Wildfire... flipboard.com/@melissasterry…
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The seminal exploration of bio-inspired design for building resilience to wildfires, you can find out more about Panarchistic Architecture (2018) here panarchiccodex.com #designforwildfire
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Pyri-CONE™ autonomous sensing/processing component integrating an analogue ballistic propulsion system distributing data upon activation by chemical/heat signatures of wildfires is a seminal concept of Panarchistic Architecture (2018). Read more panarchiccodex.com/home/code…
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Retardant BIObark™ exterior wall-plating system modelled on fire-retardant rhytidome, features tissues and furrows of which the design dissipates heat is one of the seminal concepts proposed in Panarchistic Architecture (2018). Read more at panarchiccodex.com/home/code…
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BIOroot™ System subsurface hybridised data sensing, processing, actuating, and storage network tracking biotic moisture levels, atmospheric humidity, below and above surface chemical and heat signatures, and other environmental information. Read more at panarchiccodex.com/home/code…
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“Forget massive chlorinated swimming pools, the hottest status symbol among wealthy landowners in the UK is now natural swimming pools — or ponds, as you might call them.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Swimming Ponds Are Status Symbols for UK’s Wealthy Homeowners

Natural pools are growing in popularity, thanks to wild swimming, environmental concerns about open water and aesthetic tastes among the UK’s wealthy.

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Seminal constructs in architectural and urban resilience to wildfire modelled on functional traits of species that have evolved to live with wildfire panarchiccodex.com/concepts #regenerativedesign
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@Rainmaker197315 May 2024
This is why animals’ pupils come in different shapes and sizes
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‘Pigeons’, 1997 by Kathryn Spence; made with street trash, wire, string and rubber bands.
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nature
@Nature27 Apr 2024
The common fungus Aspergillus niger removes both heavy metals and organic pollutants from its surroundings go.nature.com/3whNkxx
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