That’s what happens here.
Together with talented researchers, designers and ambitious companies I bring better and more enjoyable products to life.
This is done by studying nature’s best systems and strategies in a structured and creative way: Bio inspired design unlocks 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D, and brings it into products. Products that improve lives: of us and everyone around us.
It’s been a long while since the last update on this website. Not because nothing happened, but because too much happened.
Since september 2011 I’m a partner at IDEAL&CO, a research and design agency specialized in sustainable product-system design. I’m the biomimicry specialist there. All the projects I’m working on will be published on that site.
Starting March 2012 I’ll be working as an action researcher in a research project I set up together with Ingrid de Pauw and the Technical Universtiy of Delft. The goal of the project: develop a Method that helps professional designers to apply Nature Inspired Design Strategies in their design practice. Partners in the consortium are: Van Gansewinkel, Oce, Festo, Ro&Ad architecten, Philips Design, IDEAL&CO, Tauw, and VanderVeer Designers. A project website will be launched soon.
This website will be dormant for a while now, please visit IDEAL&CO for more info on me and my work.
ENVIU offers their volunteers a range of expert workshops and masterclasses, in exchange for their hard work. As all volunteers expressed interest to learn more about biomimicry, ENVIU invited me to give an introductory workshop.
In three hours, the participants had a meet and great with growing bones, pumping trees, the massive weight of krill, and body-surfing dolphins. They learned the reasons and theories behind biomimicry, and most of all, they drew, brainstormed and discovered the tools and strategies of natural development.
Thanks to all the participants for a great afternoon!
For the Bioinspired! online community, Norbert Hoeller interviewed me about my work. The interview has been published
in the latest
You need to register to read it the entire magazine, but the interview alone can be read here as well.
Ingrid de Pauw and I just returned from a couple of great days in Karlskrona, Sweden. We had the privilege being invited by the Blekinge Institute of Technology, to give a workshop on Biomimicry in product design.
The participants were Master- and PhD- students of the program “Sustainable Product-Service Systems.” A highly motivated and fun crowd, that made the two afternoons fly by. Through their engagement we all learned a lot in such short time.
Next to that it has been a pleasure to get to know the researchers and their topics at this young and growing university. Because of our shared interests and visions, I foresee a future in which I’d better start working on my Swedish!