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
Biomimicry Explained: A Feral Field Note
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Most people have heard the word biomimicry.
Very few actually know what it means.
This short field note explains how the ideas in Feral by Design work - how scientists study organisms, uncover the mechanisms behind their survival, and translate those patterns into human design.
Beavers, octopuses, termites… they’re not metaphors.
They’re operating manuals.
And once you see the pattern, you start noticing it everywhere.
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Created and hosted by Pia Williams
Clever by Nature. Feral by Design.