As designers we often find it challenging to engage and translate technical, biological, and scientific information into methods and processes that we can use in our design work.  

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The Bio-Inspired Textiles (BIT) is creating resources that translate and apply the knowledge found in nature to enable designers to create textiles that combat resource efficiency, longevity, and recovery.  

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Drawing on the ‘Biological Structural Design Elements' framework by

Naleway, et al. (2015), developed specifically for materials science and engineering, BIT is exploring how nature benefits from these structural designs.  

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BIT team are working to understand how each structure might be used by the textile designer to combat resource efficiency, longevity, and recovery.

 

Click below to find out more. 

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