More and more, designers are looking to nature for responsible design solutions, which has been fuelled by innovation in technology. Until April 28, Design Exchange will host Evolution, an exhibition by Toronto curator Sanam Samanian that examines how biomimicry ? the design of products, services, and systems that imitate nature?s models ? has given new rise to design thinking.
This exhibition invites visitors into a multisensory, imaginative environment that responds to present-day issues that are affecting design practitioners through a survey of products, things, and solutions. Get up close to experience Mahtab Oskuee?s intricately crocheted curtain embedded with responsive sensors; be awed by Brent Cordner?s new honeycomb-inspired architectural material; and have your mind bent by the interactive architecture of Philip Beesley (who has collaborated with the acclaimed Iris van Herpen). Plus, see contributions by Fugitive Glue, Mesh Cities? Robert Ouellette, and Design Tennis. Mahtab Oskuee?s intricately crocheted curtain embedded with responsive sensors. Image courtesy of Design Exchange.
?The practitioners of design are realizing that the use of natural principles and the evolution of natural systems could be a critical source of guidance and wisdom for the future of the practice of design and architecture. Inspired more by biological than the technological concepts, some designers are beginning to look more and more to nature for responsible solutions.? says Samanian...