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

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 Leadance For Bid‘Bio-灵感纺织品(BIT)’的见解和发现，解决了无法预见的影响途径。BIT项目的总体目标是“确定是否可以借鉴仿生原理：推进可持续的纺织品设计和生产过程；积极促进循环经济；并因此开发一个可访问的框架作为模板，作为作为最先进的仿生纺织品设计实践更广泛传播的模板”。BIT框架将由Naleway(2015)领导的针对材料科学受众的生物结构设计元素(BSDE)综合审查的信息与使用通信设计和讲故事的纺织学科特有的过程和技术联系起来。我们的研究已经证明了这种方法的价值和扩大影响的机会，超越了纺织品。我们还发现，双边投资条约框架支持资源(材料和能源)效率、寿命和回收(RELR)的可持续设计模式。我们通过分析14名受资助的纺织制造商和38名纺织硕士学生的实践，以及对134名纺织从业者的更广泛研究，证明了这两个结果。我们的研究还强调，思维定势、缺乏专业知识和实际例子是阻碍纺织设计师从生物学中获取信息并最终促进其实践的可持续性和/或循环性的关键障碍。我们的交流活动旨在通过社交媒体与纺织设计社区分享我们基于实践的成果，这激起了更广泛设计社区的巨大意想不到的兴趣，导致了随后对更广泛的设计实践的额外研究。我们发现纺织品报告的障碍与更广泛的设计从业者样本之间存在显著的一致性。拟议的活动建立在BIT成果的基础上，以缓解这些问题，并满足对实用设计方法的需求，使生物学的概念能够为产品和更广泛的设计学科提供信息。该项目以两个主要目标为指导：a.与实践的产品设计界分享关于可持续设计的BIT框架和模式的见解b。使利益攸关方能够访问和调查扩展后的BIT更名为生物启发设计(BID)框架和可持续设计模式RELR的积极影响。(利益攸关方包括产品设计行业、中小学教育(KS1-4)的代表以及感兴趣的公众，即对设计职业感兴趣的个人，那些试图了解如何通过设计实践实施可持续和/或循环模型的人)。。

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). .