Biodiseño: el proyecto que educa a la naturaleza

The paper explores the field of biodesign by demonstrating, through a review of the scientific literature and the illustration of design research experiments developed by the authors, how design can design hybrid artefacts by instructing nature in the direction of design thinking. We will investigate the possibility of apply critical design thinking to the pursuit of people’s well-being, increasingly compromised by technological and hyper-connected stress, by proposing new products and rituals based on biology and its cooperation with the human. Specifically will be illustrated a project that proposes a reinterpretation of the use of the symbolism of shapes and colours of the ancient Etruscan peoples through an experimental decoration using living nature in order to generate on a series of ceramic vessels, after numerous experiments, a new bio-ornamental chromatic aesthetic, characterised by its fractal and branched morphology.