Biomimicry: Responding to the life crisis through biomimicry

"Biomimicry has enjoyed strong media and institutional recognition since the early 2010s. But how could this concept – consisting of drawing inspiration from nature to eco-design products, processes or systems, while respecting planetary limits – help us to face this crisis in our relationship with living things, of which Covid-19 is only a symptom? Because according to Emmanuel Delannoy, there is no crisis of life: there is only a crisis in our relationship with living things. The pandemic thus reveals the difficult integration of our social, economic and political organizations within the web of planetary life – which we call "biodiversity" without always understanding that we are one of its elements. After a first part devoted to the study of the limits and potential pitfalls of our current conception of the ecological transition, the author describes the conditions, values and principles of action of an ethical approach to biomimicry, which would contribute to the emergence of a new relationship with living things, or even of a new collective imagination – this “story” that societies need to cement themselves and civilizations to evolve." "Among the pioneers of biomimicry in France, Emmanuel Delannoy has been exploring, for more than twenty years, the areas of friction and possible convergences between economy and biodiversity. Since 2018, he has been a founding partner of Pikaia, where he works to promote the metamorphosis of companies towards resilient, regenerative models inspired by living things. He is already the author of two books published by Wildproject: L'économie expliquée aux humains (2011) and Permaéconomie (2016)."