brendan mahon (brendanmahon)

Hello all,

I am a final year Education student looking to encorpoarte biomimicry in my final year project. On completion of my course I will be teaching Woodwork, Construction Studies, Technical Drawing, Design and Communication Graphics and some Technology at second level.

I was thinking of perhaps looking to show the benefits of employing biomimicry for inspiration at the design stage of pupil projects. I will be teaching in a school for 10 weeks this year and could encorporate the project into some of my lessons by requesting some sketched solutions to some briefs, showing the areas of difficulty experienced by the pupils and then solving these briefs myself with nature as my inspiration. I could then make each of my solutions ( example; 6 briefs solved- one for each stage of second level).

I have my doubts on how appropriate this topic is to my subject areas and to how beneficial the process of lookijng to biomimicry for inspiration in these subjects would actually be. Also, I am yet to decide on what kind of briefs to solve.

Any advice would be greatfully welcomed,

Brendan Mahon.
Ireland