MDWFF25: Biocentrics

Melbourne Design Week Film Festival

How would you reinvent your world using nature as a model? This provocative question is put forward and answered by biologist and biomimeticist Janine Benyus. Travelling to different corners of the planet, Janine reveals the birth and principles that guide biomimetics: a transdisciplinary methodology of technological innovation that seeks solutions to our problems through observation and inspiration from nature and planet Earth. While highlighting biomimicry as a tool that is at the forefront of design, architecture and science.

Rating

Unclass15

Duration

107 min

Country

Brazil

Language

Portuguese, English and Japanese (English Subtitles)

Director

Ataliba Benaim,Fernanda Heinz Figueiredo