Bionic Design in Industrial Design Education at University of Tehran

Nature has demonstrated to be a rich source of inspiration for product design throughout history. Bionics is an interdisciplinary field which deals with structures, methods and processes found in biological systems. Bionic design provides design process with incorporating both form aspects and functional principles. Bionic design can serve as a bridge between design and other related sciences, and therefore performs a prominent role in development of product design domain. The aim of this paper is to show how Bionic design can be used as an instrument to increase the quality of educational curricula for industrial design students. The process introduced here, is the procedure currently offered to 4 th year BA industrial design student in University of Tehran as the Bionics course.