BUGS OR BEETLES...

Saturday 18th December – 10am-2pm

NCPA Experimental Garden

For children ages 6-12

Cost : Rs 2,500 per child (inclusive of lunch and materials)

Biomimicry is an emerging discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still struggle with. Non-toxic adhesives inspired by geckos, energy efficient buildings inspired by termite mounds, and resistance-free antibiotics inspired by red seaweed are examples of biomimicry happening today. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment that sustains them, biomimicry can contribute to the long-term health of our planet.

If humans can learn to mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement, it will go a long way to go towards living sustainably on this planet. The good news : we have 10-30 million species with time-tested genius to help us get there.

In our December workshop on biomimicry, “Bugs or Beetles”, as kids imitate some of nature’s most ingenious creatures, they also learn how different species of nature adapt and evolve to survive, and how we can learn from them. They learn how velcro is inspired from plants, why airplanes should be designed like sharks, how 80 million locusts manage to fly in a square kilometre without crashing into each other, how seaweed manages to keep itself bacteria-free, how butterflies get their colour, and much, much more.

We also encourage the kids to design their own solutions to some of today’s biggest challenges, and to look to nature for inspiration.

The genius is all around us. We simply have to stop and listen. Even a child can do it.




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