Abstract:

Nature offers us marvelous materials built with many functional systems within the context of creativity and technological developments in order to find answers to the problems that arise in the consequence of human necessities. Recently, the concept of Biomimetics, which impersonates the nature and which uses the ecological standards of nature in the fields of engineering, architecture and design, confronts us for the purpose of creating a more sustainable world and of preserving the genius of life. This concept gained to literature as a new branch of science provides wide range of facilities for designers aiming to achieve perfectness in search of covering the lacking parts in the field of design. In this review study, how and for what reasons the science of Biomimetics, guiding to generate strategic solutions to design problems and to develop new processes, is used in textile and apparel design is analyzed over current visual patterns by focusing on materials and its structural aspect. To assure the sustainability of the discussions on the subject and to contribute to the mentioned field by encouraging developing new methods. This study is carried out by using qualitative research methods, is supported with theoretical historical as well as visual examples chosen in limited numbers. Consequently, the fact that we can find sustainable answers to many problems of ours thanks to Biomimetics confronting us as a scientific approach has been seen in the examples in our study in which we took textile and apparel design as the basis.

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