Decree of Adaptivity

This card helps you define the degree to which the non-human biological element can change through interaction with its design environment. Its degree of adaptivity influences how much variability, unpredictability, uncertainty, and feedback your project must accommodate.

• Does the biological element remain mostly stable, react to environmental condions, or actively influence its surroundings?
  
  

• How might its properties or behaviour change during production, use, or after use?

• How much control are you willing to share with the biological element?

Adaptive?

Defining the degree of adapvity is important because biological elements do not all interact with their environment in the same way. A processed fruit-waste material may have little adapvity, untreated wood may react to moisture, while living mycelium may actively grow and influence its surroundings. Recognising this difference helps you ancipate change, respond to feedback, and design with the biological element rather than attempting to fully control it. 

• Position your biological element degree of adapvity, and its corresponding bioaffordances.

• Identify the condions - such as moisture, light, temperature, nutrients, or human interaction - that may cause it to change. 

• Decide how you will observe, accommodate, or respond to its changing behaviour throughout the project.