A new Design Paradigm

The world has gone through 3.8 billion years of research and development, with failures and successes, in search of the most effective and affordable solutions. For this reason alone, looking to Nature as a source of knowledge and inspiration is something indispensable to do and which has in fact always inspired our species. In Art Nouveau, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, imitating Nature was limited to being inspired by its forms, organic and harmonic, but already in the mid-twentieth century the term "Bionics" was coined, to describe the search for the formal and geometric principles of Nature, transferred to manmade technological systems. In the following decades, Biomimetics inspired creatives and thinkers from all over the world, further pushing the relationship between Nature and the anthropized world and in which Nature was no longer just a morphological or technological reference, but a source of new methodologies and logical principles (Langella, 2003), seeking “the logic of training rather than the description of forms” (Legg, 2017). Today, technology allows us to reproduce natural systems and bio-fabricate living systems, but is this really necessary? How can we avoid technological blasphemy? What role does design play in this?