Bioinspired Design: Unforeseen Pathways to impact arising from AHRC funded Bioinspired Textiles Research

仿生设计：AHRC 资助的仿生纺织品研究产生不可预见的影响途径

• 批准号: AH/X004473/1
• 负责人: Veronika Kapsali
• 金额: $ 10.28万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX004473%2F1
• 关键词: Bioinspired; Design; Unforeseen; Pathways; impact

This project addresses unforeseen pathways to impact by sharing insights and findings arising from the AHRC Leadership Fellow Bid, 'Bio-Inspired Textiles (BIT)' with new design communities and non-academic product design audiences. The overall aim of the BIT project has been 'to determine if biomimetic principles can be drawn upon: to advance sustainable textile design and production processes; to positively contribute to the circular economy; and to consequently develop an accessible framework as a template for the wider dissemination of biomimetic textile design practices as state of the art (SoA)'.The BIT framework connects information from a comprehensive review of Biological Structural Design Elements (BSDE) led by Naleway (2015), intended for a material science audience, with processes and techniques specific to the textile disciplines using communication design and storytelling. Our research has demonstrated the value of this approach and opportunities to widen impact beyond textiles. We have also found that the BIT framework supports a model of sustainable design for resource (material and energy) efficiency, longevity and recovery (RELR). We evidence both these outcomes via the analysis of the practice of 14 funded textile makers and 38 Masters level textile students and a wider study of 134 textile practitioners. Our research has also highlighted that mind-set, lack of access to specialist knowledge and practical examples constitute the key obstacles preventing textile designers from accessing information from biology and ultimately advancing the sustainability and/or circularity of their practice. Our communication activities designed to share our practice-based outcomes with the textile design community via social media have stimulated significant unexpected interest from the broader design community leading to a subsequent additional study of a wider range of design practices. We found significant alignment between the obstacles reported by the textile and broader design practitioner samples. The proposed activities build on the outcomes of BIT to mitigate these issues and respond to the need for practical design methodologies that enable concepts from biology to inform product and broader design disciplines. The project is guided by two key aims:a. Share insights pertaining the BIT framework and model of sustainable design (RELR) with the product design community of practiceb. Enable stakeholders to access and investigate the positive impact of the expanded BIT renamed Bio-Inspired Design (BID) framework and sustainable design model RELR. (Stakeholders to include representatives from product design industry, primary and secondary education (KS1-4) as well as interested public, i.e. individuals interested in a career in design, those seeking to understand how sustainable and/or circular models can be implemented via design practice). .

该项目通过与新的设计社区和非学术产品设计受众分享AHRC领导研究员竞标“生物灵感纺织品（BIT）”的见解和发现，解决了不可预见的影响途径。BIT项目的总体目标是“确定仿生原理是否可以借鉴：推进可持续纺织品设计和生产工艺;积极促进循环经济;并因此开发一个可访问的框架，作为更广泛传播仿生纺织品设计实践的模板，作为最先进的技术（SoA）BIT框架连接了由Naleway（2015）领导的生物结构设计元素（BASED）的全面审查信息，旨在为材料科学观众，通过沟通设计和讲故事的方式，运用纺织学科特有的流程和技术。我们的研究证明了这种方法的价值和扩大纺织品以外影响的机会。我们还发现，BIT框架支持资源（材料和能源）效率，寿命和恢复（RELR）的可持续设计模型。我们通过对14家受资助的纺织品制造商和38名硕士纺织专业学生的实践分析以及对134名纺织从业人员的更广泛研究来证明这两个结果。我们的研究还强调，思维定式、缺乏专业知识和实际案例构成了阻碍纺织品设计师获取生物学信息并最终推进其实践的可持续性和/或循环性的主要障碍。我们的交流活动旨在通过社交媒体与纺织品设计界分享我们基于实践的成果，这激发了更广泛的设计界意想不到的兴趣，导致随后对更广泛的设计实践进行了额外的研究。我们发现纺织品和更广泛的设计实践者样本报告的障碍之间存在显着的一致性。拟议的活动以双边投资条约的成果为基础，以缓解这些问题，并满足对实用设计方法的需求，使生物学概念能够为产品和更广泛的设计学科提供信息。该项目以两个关键目标为指导：a.与产品设计实践社区分享有关BIT框架和可持续设计模型（RELR）的见解b。使利益相关者能够访问和调查扩展BIT更名为生物启发设计（BID）框架和可持续设计模型RELR的积极影响。（利益相关者包括产品设计行业的代表，小学和中学教育（KS 1 -4）以及感兴趣的公众，即对设计职业感兴趣的个人，那些寻求了解如何通过设计实践实现可持续和/或循环模型的人）。.