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Creating Biomimetic Examples: A Design Method with Scientific Results

Version 1 : Received: 21 June 2022 / Approved: 22 June 2022 / Online: 22 June 2022 (07:37:14 CEST)

How to cite: Hoorn, J. F. Creating Biomimetic Examples: A Design Method with Scientific Results. Preprints 2022, 2022060307. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202206.0307.v1 Hoorn, J. F. Creating Biomimetic Examples: A Design Method with Scientific Results. Preprints 2022, 2022060307. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202206.0307.v1

Abstract

Prospective end-users rated aptness, creativity, and innovativeness of biomimetic examples that featured different relationships to create combinations (e.g., used for) between nature and technology. Against common theorizing, similarity was not the most profound for creativity but rather appearance, being part_of, and property_of were. Creativity explained most of the variance in the level of innovation with aptness of the design in a strong supporting role. The focus of conceptualization shifted from ‘creation as new things coming from new ideas’ to ‘innovation as new ideas leading to new things.’ Results are interpreted in the Chinese context of utility. Both in education and industry, the use of 5*5 research grids with rating scales may work as a design method to develop and select functional variants during early design.

Keywords

creative relations; biomimicry; design method; creativity; innovation; aptness

Subject

Arts and Humanities, Architecture

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