Intrigue and motivation

This card helps you feel more intrigued and motivated by exploring biodesign as a new process, observing nature, and drawing inspiration from traditional crafts.

• Does biodesign inspire you differently than your previous design experiences? 

• Has a natural phenomenon sparked a significant idea in your design work?

• How have ancient cultural traditions and crafts through biodesign shaped your appreciation of design's past and future?

• Where in nature will you draw your inspiration from? 

Seagrass Thatching

Studio Kathryn Larsen explored how seagrass as regional natural resource could be used in the ancient construction roofing system called seagrass thatching. The founder Kathryn says that her motivation often lays in solutions that are deeply rooted in traditions and culture, such as seagrass and thatching in Denmark. 

• Think of natural phenomena that intrigue you to explore its unique properties in product design.

• Explore the ways how some traditional material use or crafts have been used in ancient times.

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