Hybrid biomimetic design for sustainable development through multiple perspectives

Authors : Carla LANGELLA, Valentina PERRICONE

Pages : 44-76

Doi:10.37246/grid.500310

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Publication Date : 2019-07-13

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In the bio-technological era the boundary between the biological world and synthetic world is increasingly fading, as well as, the limit between different disciplines in the perspective of multidisciplinary and anti-disciplinary. Conversely, the overcoming of barriers is not to be considered as a symptom of homogenization or loss of complexity, but rather, as a paradigm, in which new forms of connection and intersection between design and science are created. In this vision, hybrid products can be generated in which nature and artifice co-exist: a change of paradigm that deeply revises the concept of environmental sustainability.  This paper aims to illustrate activities, methods and results of the Hybrid Design Lab-(HDL)- Department of the Campania University "Luigi Vanvitelli"- specifically dedicated to different forms of collaboration and intersection between design and bio-sciences, specifically aimed to environmental sustainability.
Keywords : Design, Biomimetics, hybridism, bio technology, sustainability, Hybrid Design Lab at University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli