Ingenious Principles of Nature

This volume focuses on practical applications of the principles that can be transferred from nature to our design space. It is thereby supported by the regulation and control systems as described by the science of cybernetics.

The inexhaustible wealth of evolutionary optimal solutions. - Principles of nature or survival in an open "cooking pot". - Multidisciplinary developmental works. - Central operating principles of evolution. - Eight basic biocybernetic rules according to Frederic Vester. - Ways out of the trap of human short-sighted design routines. - Application of basic strategic principles of nature in the human design space. - Application of central operational principles of nature in the human design space. - Eight basic operational biocybernetic rules.