Discover inspiring
biomimicry
Restoration
Projects
Find out how our Biomimicry Practitioners are using their skills to restore wild(er)ness through rewilding, bioremediation and nature positive approaches.
Get a glimpse of a few restoration projects by our Biomimicry Practitioner Programme members:
Explore more through these learner projects.
Click through these inspiring projects below to see more of our learners' work.
Regenerating Rohan Island
The challenge: Regenerate and restore a dump site back into a wetland in the city of Prague.
Focus: Restoration through managing floods, healing landscapes and connecting communities.
Brittany Trilford
Biomimicry Practitioner
Regenerating Rohan Island
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The challenge was clear: Rohan Island is current dump in the city of Prague in desperate need of healing. Britney's project proposes a radical future floodplain park for Prague. Here are some more excerpts from Britney's project.
Rohan Island Wetland Park is a park empowered by a diversity of materials, of processes and of places to manage floods, heal the landscape and connect the communities of Prague (human and non-human) by learning from nature’s flourishing wetlands and grasses.
You can view the full project here: Regenerating Rohan Island
From Terracotta Furnace to Organic Water Management
Challenge: Redevelop and restore a furnace that makes terracotta tiles into an organic water system.
Focus: Ecological restoration through optimizing the use of
water, minimizing waste, and activating a recycling process that involves the surrounding natural
environment, and integrating the factory within the ecosystem.
Lisa Gualandi
Biomimicry Practitioner
Redeveloping a Furnace as an Organic Water System
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Next steps with this project
- Discuss it with the factory owners, to identify the sequence of action to make the project feasible
- Dive deep into European Union initiatives and official announcements about environmental
re-qualification projects and that may give funds to realise this idea. - Find a PHD program in which I (Lisa) will be able to apply the Biomimicry Design Process
St. Kitts Coastal Water Defence and Management
Challenge: Restore and protect the natural water recharge systems in St. Kitts to address the growing water shortage caused by disrupted runoff patterns, disconnected ghauts, and seawater intrusion.
Focus: Climate change adaption, wave dissipation, permanent structure construction.
Davina Doras Cranstoun
Biomimicry Practitioner
*Final presentation excerpt*
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As an architect, Davina dived into working on a challenge that he feels strongly about solving: Coastal defense and management of water upstream, as a response to climate change.
St. Kitts has one of the most beautiful fertile landscapes in the Caribbean region, which once ago
produced sufficient water resources to sustain vegetation throughout communities and the whole island of 68 square miles.
The Ministry of Sustainable Development is seeking ways to manage water-related issues such as drought, flooding and sea level rise. Currently, due to poor road
placement and displaced community configurations, most areas are met with flash floods
throughout the year while land in other areas are experiencing drought.
You can watch Davina's 10min presentation below
Next Steps
- Source funding
- Promote Biomimicry and my project in the Caribbean area.
- Find interested persons to collaborate with / work on this project
- Build a small network of people willing to care for the small islands.
- Establish a research and design institute to show locals how possible it is to
live with nature in a more sustainable way. - Future ideas to work on: Self-sustaining regenerative community which has
water, natural lighting and natural ventilation as the core elements.
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A great project makes
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The #1 question we get asked is: "How do I apply biomimicry?" and our answer is always: "Start with a project that you are passionate about".
But, finding the right project and challenge to work on can be tough. So we created the Biomimicry Project Playbook micro-course to guide you through this process, and empower you to make your Practitioner Programme or next project a success.
This micro-course contains short videos,
a downloadable template workbook, and a pdf handbook. Everything you need to get you started on your journey.
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