The Nature of Design

“The NVIV (Next Vista Inspiring Video) series of posts are written by Rushton Hurley and designed to provide students and teachers with fascinating discussion prompts.”

In The Nature of Design, Rushton features a video about biomimicry. They imitate nature in order to solve some problems.

Rushton gives the following prompts to accompany this video:

"For you, which piece of the video and how it mentions the natural world was most interesting? Is there a connection between that part of the story, and your own experiences?

Often, people who are seen as successful are good at using what they have experienced and been fascinated by, and combining it with something else in a unique way.

What fascinates you, and how might you tie that to something you’d like to do in the future? If your answer is a little “out there,” you might be on the right track for creating a distinctive future."

I love the idea of connecting our students to nature. This video showed great examples and it would be interesting to see what other examples the students could come up with. It would also be fun to see what new ideas that students can come up with. Students can get in groups and pitch their ideas and come up with a group idea. Then each group can share it with the class and the class could vote on the best idea.

Please check out the video and think of other prompts you might come up with. Please share.