Our goal is to move ideas from biology to human systems design in such a way that they become real, implementable design tools and guidelines. We seek to provide engineering systems solutions inspired by biological ecosystems that result in cost savings, increased efficiency and resilience, and reductions of environmental burdens.

Our work has demonstrated that biological ecosystem characteristics can lead to sustainability AND resilience improvements at multiple system scales. These goals don’t need to be achieved at the expense of each other: i.e. you can have it all!

We are a computational engineering design lab. A summary of the general principles of our work – using biological inspiration at a systems level to solve systems-level problems in engineering – can be found in this video.