Daniel Kinzer: Biomimicry Series Episode I

Coconut Thinking

How might we create participatory, community-based technologies inspired from Nature with the interests of life in mind?

In this episode, I speak with Daniel Kinzer. Daniel is the founder of Pacific Blue Studios, a network of youth-powered exploration, design and innovation studios leveraging biomimicry, traditional ecological knowledge and conservation technologies and focused on co-creating thriving, regenerative communities across Hawai'i and around our blue planet. He is an educator, designer, adventurer and ocean lover, and has spent over a decade living and learning across more than 70 countries and all 7 continents, including an expedition to Antarctica as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow with National Geographic. We discuss:

🥥 Being comfortable in the absence of language and tuning into how our human and other-than-human kin communicate;

🥥 Biomimicry and indigenous knowledge ask us to quiet our cleverness, having humility, and neither is for anybody to own, run away from, or have exclusive to anyone;

🥥 Eco-anxiety as “I don’t know who I am anymore,” as ego-anxiety.

This is the first of a 3-part series on Biomimicry, looking at the relational, ethical, and process of Biomimicry.

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