Feral by Design
Feral by Design is a podcast that uses biomimicry to steal nature’s smartest strategies for human chaos.
Each episode starts with a messy real-world problem, turns to a creature that’s already solved something similar, looks at their strategies and follows the thread you didn’t see coming. Sometimes it lands on one idea, sometimes a few - but it always lands somewhere useful.
Grounded in real science, told through self-deprecating stories, and always surprisingly practical.
Biomimicry made accessible, useful, and genuinely fun.
Nature owns the patent. We get to copy it.
Feral by Design
Latest Episodes
Which Type of Explorer Are You? Lessons From The Great Tit
A three-year-old turns a stolen maxi pad into a bird, a plane, and a crown - no hesitation, no second-guessing. Three completely different uses for one object in about fifteen seconds.That moment leads to an unexpected question: why do s...
Leave It To Beavers: The London Underground Experiment
London has just rehired an employee it fired four hundred years ago. No severance. No apology. Just an awkward, "Come back. We clearly can't do your job without you."Her name's Willow, and she's a beaver.When five Eurasian ...
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Diminished: The Hidden Costs of Injury
A 14-year-old boy suffers two brain bleeds in a freak accident at school. He comes home and sleeps 21 hours a day.To everyone watching, it looks like the world has gone quiet. In nature, that stillness isn't defeat. It's a high-stakes re...
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When Red Wine Meets Your Laptop: Trainwrecks & Tree Canopies
Red wine meets MacBook. Laundry floods. Toilet leaks. All within 24 hours.Somewhere between staring at flood-damaged laundry cabinets and Googling "how much liquid can a MacBook survive?", Pia realised she'd recently spent a lot o...
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Too Fast To Think: The Sloth Strategy For Better Decisions
A homemade billy cart hurtles downhill through a suburban intersection. A keynote slide turns into an entirely new workshop framework. A conference room applauds the removal of friction from modern work. Somewhere in Costa Rica, a sloth hangs c...
