TY - JOUR AU - Sidorenko, Sofija PY - 2017/07/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Improvement of creativity via the six-steps bio-inspiration strategy JF - South East European Journal of Architecture and Design JA - SEE J Archit Des VL - 2017 IS - SE - Articles in Design DO - 10.3889/seejad.2017.10028 UR - https://seejad.eu/index.php/seejad/article/view/seejad.2017.10028 SP - 1-8 AB - <p class="IDAHeading">Bionics is a relatively new interdisciplinary science, which synthesizes the knowledge of biology and other sciences. Industrial designers, architects and engineers find the application of principles and methods of bionics efficient for deriving inspiration and improving their creative thinking.</p><p>Designers explore natural systems by adopting one of the two main bionic strategies: solution-driven or problem-driven approach. The first one deals with abstraction of the principle in biological systems as an inspiration for application in the product design process. The second one searches for a solution in natural systems for already recognized design problems.</p><p>We adopted the Bi-directional bionic design method proposed by Versos and Coelho and started to implement it in our educational process. Many student projects have been made and important experience achieved. With this research we wanted to emphasize the possibilities and advantages of the bionic strategy and to offer our contribution for the phase of inspiration for a new product development or an improvement of the existing ones. Our main goal was to apply solution oriented strategy for efficient exploring of nature in the phase of searching for inspiration. We propose several steps in the process of exploration of natural systems followed by identification of important natural solutions and a structured way of documentation in order to become more noticeable and observable to attract an attention of designers and engineers. The recognized natural solutions could become a trigger for inspiration for various design solutions. The proposed strategy could be applied in the education of design and engineering students for improvement of their creativity. </p> ER -