Optimizing Human Interactions Through Biomimicry and Systemic Thought

Biomimicry as a discipline is gaining momentum in the social innovation space as a tool enabling leaders to structure their organizations by looking at nature for inspiration. Thinking at the (eco)system level enables leaders to identify leverage points to help them focus their resources into areas with the biggest, long-lasting impacts. Biomimicry can synergistically works with social innovation to help organizations identify sustainable approaches by receiving insights from nature on what that might look like. Biomimicry Arabia, an organization that advocates for Arab youth and regional sustainability, followed the biomimetic approach at its inception to identify the role it would play, as a pioneer species, at the larger ecosystem scale that sets the stage for ecological succession for a landscape that advocates for sustainability and uses biomimicry for problem-solving. The nature-inspired theory of change positions the organization as a connecting medium between youthful talents (via academia/schools) and industry to create opportunities for biomimetic innovations to take place that potentially jumpstart more careers in sustainability for ambitious, aspiring young leaders.