Role of Design Thinking and Biomimicry in Leveraging Sustainable Innovation

Abstract

Biophilic thinking is an approach to solve problems of nature and humankind by applying creative approaches of biophysics and biomimicry designs for conceptualization and developing innovative solutions to improve human wellbeing and sustainability. Biophilia means “love of life or living system” (Fromm 2010), following the term eco-philia translates to as love of organizations to their natural environment. Eco-philia thinking identifies and improves purposefully design process with overall organizational sustainability including planning for both human and ecology systems. Through the lens of eco-philia design thinking, the creation of sustainable innovation can keep up the corporate sustainability agenda in a larger biophysical, ecological, and human ecosystem.