Didactic/Methodological Proposal: Use of the Natural Classification as an Element of Bionic Studies

As an initial research project, based on a universal view of the problem, a fundamental point for this discipline was highlighted – bionics – which until now has been concerned with identifying aspects of nature to apply to the world of design. We prefer to analyze these arguments from a more academic and less marketing point of view. As a main element, with regard to theoretical research, we seek to demonstrate to all those who research in the natural world, useful ideas for designing, an applied research process based mainly on the taxonomy of living beings. As a second objective, this research had the purpose of confronting natural themes with the capacity for synthesis that we industrial designers have in an experimental experience of bionic powder. Studying nature is undoubtedly a very complex thing, but it is necessary to have a deeper knowledge of these aspects and their contents. When we talk about bionics, it is not enough for a designer to refer only to nature with its formal and symbolic aspects; it is necessary to individualize a specific operational modality of research to arrive at a project. Current living organisms are the result of continuous selection and natural adaptation that act in a particular way to provide more adequate forms and suitable structures for the particular elements found in their habitats.