I couldn't agree more with Julian As someone who has taken a pretty passive
role in this site, I have found myself getting more an more turned off by
all this worrying about words and their definitions.
John Currey
On Nov 6 2003, J F V Vincent wrote:
> I find this differentiation between "biomimetics", "biomimicry" (and by
> inference, "bionics" and "bioinspired design" etc) to be at best a waste
> of time and effort, and at worst ironically divisive in a branch of
> science which is supposed to be globally inclusive, melding biology with
> all sorts of other disciplines and studies. Is the version of
> architecture that I find myself talking about any different from that
> which Janine Benyus and her helpers discuss? And if so, why? Is it
> because we have different labels or because we are different people?
>
> Let's get rid of all this spurious identification with words - that what
> I do is different from what you do because I identify with a marginally
> different word. Nobody outside the area is going to find it useful, and
> it becomes ever more confusing to new entrants to the subject, who feel
> that they have to identify with some small zone before they can take
> part.
>
> In one of the chapters in her book, Janine interviewed people attending a
> sub-symposium of the US Materials Research Society. At the time we all
> thought we were doing biomimetics. Does that mean that we should expunge
> that chapter from the book in the interests of intellectual purity?
>
> Please. We are praeternaturally lumpers, not splitters.
>
> Julian Vincent
>
> Quoting "" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Posted by: Norbert Hoeller <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > Sarah, have you checked out
> > http://thinkcycle.org/tc-notes/?topic_id=40413&type_id=0 - the main
> > Biomimicry topic on ThinkCycle? There are a 19 'Notes' including
> > pointers to other resources such as the Biomimicry website, a CBC
> > special on Biomimicry, and the book by Janine Benyus. There is also a
> > set of clippings about Biomimicry (clearly not comprehensive - I'm
> > always interested in new material).
> >
> > Are there specific examples that you are most interested in? In
> > general, what got you started in Biomimicry, and how do you see
> > applying it? Have you investigated Biomimetics? Similar underlying
> > concept, but tending to have more of an engineering/materials focus.
> >
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