Nature Inspired Creative Design : Bringing Together Ideas from Nature, Computer Science, Engineering, Art and Design

Thorsten SCHNIER, Russell BEALE, Xin YAO, Bob HENDLEY, Will BYRNE

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Abstract

The ‘Nature Inspired Creative Design’ cluster brought together people from three main areas: Nature and Biology, Art and Design, and Science and Computing. It aimed to establish a forum for cross-fertilisation between disciplines, within the overall topic of adopting nature inspired approaches to creative design. Its members explored a wide range of subjects, including evolution, growth and development, emergence and self-organisation, robustness, natural structures, and human design behaviour and performance. 

This chapter presents the background and ideas of the cluster, predominantly from a computational viewpoint. It also presents some of the result of the initial 1-year funded phase of activity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesigning for the 21st Century : Interdisciplinary Questions and Insights
EditorsTom INNS
PublisherTaylor and Francis Ltd.
Pages192-204
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781351964739
ISBN (Print)9780566087370
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes

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Publisher Copyright: © Tom Inns, December 2007.

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