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
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...
Too Fast to Be Legal: The Shark Skin Scandal
Bob Hawke looks down the camera and says: any boss who sacks an employee for not showing up today is a bum.A nation stops. Beer is raised. A boat wins. A jacket becomes iconic.That’s what we remember.But under the surface, som...
Dementia: When You Can’t Tell If It’s Pain or Panic | The Firefly Signal
A man raises a glass for two people he's loved for sixty years. A woman stands in a car park, looking up at the sky, saying: I don't know what you're trying to tell me. A baby cries, and no one knows why.None of it looks broken....
Moral Vertigo: When Distant Events Reshape Everyday Life
A friend cancels a trip. Petrol prices climb. A flight route disappears. None of it looks broken, but something doesn’t quite behave normally anymore.It's April 2026, as the world watches a war reshape ordinary life from thousands of kil...
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