Biomimicry Portfolio

Biomimicry is the practice of quieting our human cleverness and turning to nature as our mentor, biological strategies as our models, and living systems as our measure of successful and effective design inspired by 3.8 billion years of evolution.

As a graduate student studying Biomimicry and an aspiring practitioner, I created this space to share selected work from my Biomimicry portfolio and develop my Biomimicry communication skills. I hope you enjoy learning along with me...

Before we can learn to emulate nature, we must take the time to (re)connect in person with the living systems that share our ecosystem earth. This video honors and imagines the perspective of one of our planet’s most precious inhabitants: the earthworm. What can earthworms teach us about living in service of our ecosystem and creating conditions conducive to life?

All of earth’s most ingenious designs persist because they are adapted to their environment and employ strategies that fit into our planet’s operating conditions:

  • sunlight, water, and gravity

  • dynamic nonequilibrium

  • limits and boundaries

  • cyclic processes

Biomimicry teaches us to leverage Life’s Principles, as articulated by the Biomimicry Institute, to design in a way that elegantly solves our design challenges while creating conditions conducive to all life on earth.

Life’s Principles can be used to inform new designs or evaluate existing ones. As biomimicry practitioners, we ask:

“How would nature solve this design problem?”

By evaluating our design ideas and existing product and systems through the lens of Biomimicry, we can discover innovative applications of nature’s most brilliant strategies across disciplines and industries.

All over the world, biomimicry practitioners move and iterate through phases of the Biomimicry Design process to create innovative, sustainable design solutions to modern human challenges.

Janine Benyus. 2025. Becoming a Welcome Species: Biomimicry and the Art of Generous Design. Bioneers. Berkeley, CA, USA.

M.S. Biomimicry
Arizona State University

2024 - Current

Please note, dear reader, that many of the resources shared here as well as the framing of the language and lens of Biomimcry are sourced directly from the Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry 3.8, the global leaders in Biomimicry education and practice. I am not officially affiliated with either the Biomimicry Institute or Biomimicry 3.8 and all statements about Biomimicry on this page are my own, as informed by my ongoing education in the Biomimicry Masters program through Arizona State University’s School of Complex Adaptive Systems.