http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/27

Ross Lovegrove talks about his work and how he takes allot of his inspiration from nature.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/280
Really good teds talk by Robert Full who talks about bio-mimicry from an engineering point of view.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/18

Above is a link to a ted talk by Jenine Benyus who talks about bio mimicry and how nature has perfect solutions to our problems and also solutions for living sustainably.

An interesting website looking at biomimicry.

http://www.asknature.org/

Nature has limitless ways of protecting itself, some forms of protection consist of camouflage, intimidation, warning, and armour however there are so many more which may help to influence the final outcome.

This is my final outcome from my Ponoko project, the compass on the image is my model, unfortunately the final product is yet to be made but I will post some images when I get it back from Ponoko, for more information click on the image.

After selecting an area of study my next step was to target a specific area of crime, I was initially looking at bag theft and bike crime but soon realised these areas were well covered with numerous examples of the design problems and solutions.
I wanted to focus my efforts on something which was not so commonly designed for so I opted for attacks/muggings.
With this in mind I referred back to the brief which had a selection of words picked to try and aid our projects direction. From the list, I selected;
· Inclusive
· Living
· Bio-mimicry
These words loosely represent what I want to achieve with this project.
I am aiming to design something possibly aimed at the female population with the intention of looking at how animals defend themselves against predators or each other to hopefully direct the final outcome.