
Physical Space Enhancements
Materials Library
A curated collection showcasing biomimetic materials, with details on use cases, company information, approximate costs, and practical considerations. Each entry highlights sustainability impacts: from carbon footprint and manufacturing methods to shipping and circular potential. The collection could be refreshed regularly as new materials enter the market, ensuring members always engage with the most current innovations.
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Includes physical samples for hands-on interaction with texture, weight, and other material qualities.
Biophilic Accessories
Ordinary office supply additions and fixture accents inspired by biophilic design, bringing patterns, textures, and materials of the natural world into modern innovation space aesthetics… small touches to enhance the reconnect ethos of a biomimicry-inspired corner while maintaining a sleek, contemporary tone.
Circadian Lighting Solutions
Energizing lamps are designed to support healthy circadian rhythms aligned with work schedules, increasing energy and efficiency. Encased in a custom laser-cut outer shell for aesthetic appeal and space alignment, it is similar to sitting beside an open window with light streaming through.
Revolving Knowledge Library
A small, flexible library of books, articles, white papers, and informational posters, refreshed regularly to highlight new research, case studies, and media on circularity and sustainable manufacturing via biomimetics.
Natural Artefacts Display
A collection of natural objects and living plant specimens with remarkable properties, like:
High-strength, material-efficient forms
High-function, low-energy processes
Waste-free, non-toxic structural color
Water-based, life-friendly chemistries
Ambient-temperature operation
Paired with fact cards, posters, or interactive prompts, with biophilic appeal and hands-on interaction, each item offers analogies to inspire human problem-solving.
Rotations keep the display dynamic, reflecting seasonality and new insights.
Community Corner:
Local Case Studies
A steadily growing living record where local & London-based businesses share circular and biomimetic successes. Using a simple template, participants describe the challenge faced, the strategy applied, the Hub toolset used, and the benefits gained, for their company, community, and the planet. This collective archive celebrates progress while showing sustainability in action.
Community Corner:
The Exchange Board
The Exchange Board allows members to post excess resources or seek needed ones, creating a time bank bartering system. Mirroring ecological cycles where by-products become inputs for others, this practice fosters shared resilience, values beyond currency, and mutual support across small business communities.
Digital
Resources
Curated Resource Compilation
A comprehensive digital hub of educational content, activities, and links to relevant biomimetic sustainability tools and platforms.
Expert Directory
Profiles of biomimicry specialists, detailing their availability for talks, consultancy, or collaboration (remote or in-person).
Short Interactive Activities
Bite-sized (5–15 minute) life-friendly innovation activities, some guided by video prompts or mini technique workshops, designed for quick engagement and learning.
Expanded
Virtual Materials Library
A searchable, community-contributed database of biomimetic materials, sourcing links, and new product updates with all sustainability detailing.
On-Demand Workshop Library
A collection of professionally recorded workshops, available for ongoing access to specific skill topics. Sessions can be pre-recorded independently for polish or captured live during delivery.
Revolving Knowledge Library
A small, flexible library of books, articles, white papers, and informational posters, refreshed regularly to highlight new research, case studies, and media on circularity and sustainable manufacturing via biomimetics.
Biomimetic Business Directory
A showcase of companies applying biomimetics or biophilics in their products and services, with direct links for potential partnerships or procurement opportunities.
e.g., Oliver Heath Design, a Brighton consultancy specialising in wellbeing and biophilic design.
Interactive
Tools
Digital Information Kiosk
A dedicated iPad station offering access to AskNature and other biomimicry-related databases and resources.
Cultivate &
Innovate Practice Journals
Self-guided, skill-building, practice tools: Prototyping life-conducive inventor’s journals, with useful prompts, analogies, inspirations, and ample sketchbook spaces to record, draft, ideate, and create.
QR Code Learning Trail
Interactive QR codes placed throughout the building, linking to educational content or guided life-friendly invention activity sessions.
Biomimicry Resource Folder
A simplified, easy-to-digest print and digital guide featuring key biomimicry concepts, expert contacts, and scannable links to additional sustainability through nature-inspired innovation resources.
Community
Engagement Activities
Social Evenings
“Social Fridays” or themed Pub Nights incorporate after-hours games, for a cocktail hour mixing clever problem-solving with a shot of sustainability:
Easy, fun, skill-based challenges designed for curious and creative minds.
Like our nature-hack challenges, games where teams take on imaginary and real-world problems and race to crack them using biomimicry strategies, learning by playing, blending collaboration, competition, and a dash of pub-quiz energy.
Games on the Roof
Casual interactives designed for professionals, blending play with analogy-finding and creative thinking. Inspired by classic picnic and fair games, from bean-bag tosses to parachute-fabric and ping-pong ball challenges, each game is reimagined with a bio-inspired twist. Games serve as networking icebreakers for fun with collaboration, while subtly reinforcing nature’s lessons in circularity, sustainable design, and resilience.
​Expanding from the Corner: Share Your Success
Regular evening events spotlight local successes. Businesses present challenges overcome with nature’s strategies learnt at the Hub. These sessions extend learning beyond the workshops, reinforcing sustainability, innovation, and local resilience while growing a strong professional network.
Trips to the Field
Reconnections with nature through guided experiences, which might include:
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Sustainable bio-inspired invention exercises
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Local innovation activities in the field
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Outdoor walks
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Manufacturing tours
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Urban explorations
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Botanist- or zoologist-led sessions
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Art, photography, and craft tie-ins
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Practical problem-solving challenges
(e.g., Hack Sydney Street)
Every trip links back to wellbeing, circularity, sustainable manufacturing, biophilic design inspiration, and the reconnect with nature ethos.



