Richard MacCowan is the founder and managing director of Biomimicry Innovation Lab in the UK. The document provides information about Biomimicry Innovation Lab's work helping innovators develop new solutions through biomimicry design principles. It also discusses challenges to wider adoption of biomimicry in industry and strategies to increase biomimicry's role in mainstream design.

1. Richard MacCowan
Biomimicry UK

3. Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director

4. Plane sketch

5. What does the
UK design?

6. The team

7. Richard James
MacCowan
Managing Director
Will
Lawson
Facilitator
Lewis
Charters
Researcher
Tim
Mak
Biotechnology
Chris
Hassell
Biology & Ecology

8. Advisory
Board

9. Prof Marc
Desmuilliez
Physics + Engineering
Prof Julian
Vincent
Biology + Engineering
Dr Kalina
Raskin
Chemistry + Biology
Dr Rupert
Soar
Additive Manufacturing
+ Engineering

10. What we do

11. We help
innovators
develop new
solutions

12. Designing
the right thing

13. DEFINE IDENTIFY DEVELOP

14. DEFINE IDENTIFY DEVELOP

15. DEFINE IDENTIFY DEVELOP

16. Some of our
previous
clients…

18. Projects

19. Housing
Cairo

21. Concept of the building

23. Housing Competition - Egypt

24. Housing Competition - Egypt

26. Public Square Competition -
Birmingham
Centenary
Square,
Birmingham

27. Concept of the building

31. Adaptive Cities
through Nature
based Solutions

33. Biomimetics
in the UK

36. "Our colour and materials designers
seek inspiration everywhere…
because how can you break new
ground if you never dare to look
beyond what’s around you?"
McLaren Automotive Design Vision

46. Non-Newtonian
fluids

53. Copyright: Exploration Architecture

54. Sahara Forest Project

55. Why should
industry
care?

56. It doesn’t!

59. Lack of uptake
in biomimetics
within industry

61. Image credit: Chemistry Innovation Transfer Knowledge Network

62. Image credit: Stockholm Resilience Center

63. Problem

64. We don’t take up
biomimicry because we
can’t afford the time to
research biological
strategies for 6-12
months…
Lockhead Martin Skunkworks

67. Solution

68. Make money
Human-centred
design
Environment
Technical Systems

69. A fusion of
technologies that is
blurring the lines
between the physical,
digital, and biological
spheres.”
World Economic Forum

70. Biomimicry
as mainstream
design

71. Luck or
design?

73. What does success look like?

74. What does success look like?Network
analysis
Trade-off
analysis
Network
analysis
Trade-off
analysis

75. Algorithm-based
Additive
manufacturing

77. Source: http://textminingsolutions.co.uk/biomimicry_043019/tweet.php

80. Where does industry go?

81. UK
Industrial
Strategy

82. Ideas | People | Infrastructure | Business Environment | Places

83. AI & the
Data
Economy

84. Future
of
Mobility

85. Clean
Growth

86. Ageing
population

89. Takeaways

90. Industry 4.0
Best fit for
technologies
Systems and
processes

91. Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org
Richard James MacCowan
Founder + Managing Director
Biomimicry Innovation Lab
richard@bio-uk.org
www.bio-uk.org