Changing mindset

This card helps you shift your mindset by using materials with ecosystem considerations, collaborating with nature, and fostering curiosity and critical thinking.

• Does working with nature challenge your traditional design thinking and how so? 

• Will you collaborate with living systems instead of controlling natural resources in your designs?

• What new curiosities about nature are you exploring through your biodesign project?

• Are you prioritizing some materials for their ecosystem health and regeneration?

Flower Matter

The company Flower Matter transforms flower waste into flower bouquet packaging. The founder says that biodesign shifted her focus to materials’ life cycles and deepened her understanding beyond environmental impact. As a product designer, she used to demand rigid standards. Now, she values flexibility, adapting designs to natural material properties. 

• Think of yourself as part of nature and not as a species that has distanced itself from nature. 

• See imperfections, irregularities and unpredictability as a logical evolution of your design, just like in nature is entropy a certainty. 

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