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  • Sustainability Education
  • Biomimicry Pedagogy

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  • Biomimicry unifies biology and design for nature-inspired problem-solving, offering potential for sustainability.
  • Current biomimicry practice may inadvertently lead to nature exploitation and increased unsustainability.
  • Existing biomimicry pedagogy often lacks structured methodologies for incorporating sustainability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and describe a pedagogical framework for integrating sustainability into biomimicry education.
  • To enhance biomimicry courses for engineering students by centralizing sustainability considerations.
  • To foster ethical design practices and responsibility towards the natural world in students.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a pedagogical framing and conceptual scaffolding for a biomimicry course.
  • Integrated existing biomimicry and design language, tools, and methods.
  • Scaffolded consideration of structure-function and conditions conducive to life, unifying these perspectives.

Main Results:

  • Students demonstrated creative systemic thinking and higher-level learning from nature.
  • Post-intervention, students significantly shifted from narrow structure-function focus to considering conditions conducive to life.
  • The pedagogical approach successfully centralized sustainability in biomimicry practice.

Conclusions:

  • A dedicated pedagogical approach can effectively incorporate sustainability into biomimicry education.
  • Educators should commit to including sustainability in biomimicry pedagogy or acknowledge its absence.
  • This framework promotes ethical design and a deeper understanding of ecological responsibility.