Upcoming AskNature Hive Events
🌍 December 11 — Biomaterials and the Future of Manufacturing: Lessons from Tim McGee
11:00 AM PT
Join us for a conversation with Tim McGee, who will explore how manufacturing and materials can draw inspiration from living systems; from mussel byssal threads that produce self-healing fibers to cable bacteria that hint at future electronic systems. Grounded in 3.8 billion years of nature’s strategies, his work reveals how biology can spark a materials revolution, offering new ways to build resilience while reshaping our relationship with the living world.
For over a decade, Tim has guided organizations in turning biological insight into real-world innovation, using biomimicry to connect science with the technologies shaping our future.
📖 December 12 — Hive Lit Club: Nature-Inspired Political Coalition Agreement
12:00 PM PT
How might political coalitions work if they followed the same principles that make ecosystems thrive? In Nature-Inspired Political Coalition Agreement: A Biomimicry Blueprint for Collaborative Governance, author Gamelihle Sibanda invites readers to imagine a new kind of political cooperation: one modeled after the resilience, reciprocity, and balance found in nature.
In this session, we’ll explore how biomimicry can offer a practical framework for building more adaptive, equitable, and regenerative forms of governance. Together, we’ll unpack key ideas such as distributed leadership, mutualistic relationships, feedback loops, and the importance of diversity in sustaining healthy systems, both ecological and political.
Hosted by Hive member Dorna Schroeter.
🐝 December 17 — Social Swarm
2:00 PM PT
Join fellow biomimics from around the world for an informal networking session focused on community building and shared inspiration. This is a space to connect, exchange ideas, and spark collaborations grounded in our collective hope for a future shaped by nature’s wisdom. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just beginning your journey, come as you are—curious, creative, and committed to designing a better world together.
Hosted by AskNature Hive Manager Lily Urmann.
🌍 January 15 — Wolfish Wisdom and Rewilding our Stories: A Conversation with Erica Berry
1:00 PM PT
A virtual gathering with Wolfish author Erica Berry invites us to rewild our imaginations and reweave our connections with the living world. Drawing from her acclaimed debut, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear, Berry explores how inherited myths shape our understanding of wildness, fear, and belonging. Her reflections encourage us to listen differently: to the earth, to our animal kin, and to the stories that have guided and constrained us.
Together, we’ll consider biomimicry not just as design, but as a way of being: learning from nature’s patterns and relationships to inspire healing, creativity, and renewal. Whether you come as a writer, designer, nature lover, or seeker of connection, this event offers space for reflection and reimagining our place within the greater web of life.
Berry’s essays rooted in ecology and emotion have appeared in The New York Times, Orion, The Yale Review, The Guardian, Aeon, and more.
Hosted by AskNature Director Camilo Garzón.
🐝 January 21 — Social Swarm
1:00 PM PT
Join fellow biomimics from around the world for an informal networking session focused on community building and shared inspiration. This is a space to connect, exchange ideas, and spark collaborations grounded in our collective hope for a future shaped by nature’s wisdom. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner or just beginning your journey, come as you are—curious, creative, and committed to designing a better world together.
Hosted by AskNature Hive Coordinator Ayoade Balogun.
🧘🏽♀️ January 23 — Unfamiliar Umwelts: Life as Another Organism – An Immersive Journey into the Wild Diversity of Sensory Perception
12:00 PM PT
Join usfor Unfamiliar Umwelts: Life as Another Organism, an immersive journey into the wild diversity of sensory perception. We’ll begin with a captivating exploration of how different organisms experience touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight—each shaped by the needs of survival and relationship.
From there, you’ll be led through a gentle 15-minute guided meditation, inviting you to step into the world of another being—feeling, sensing, and perceiving as they do. After the meditation, we’ll walk through a reflective journaling prompt and engage in an optional group discussion, creating space to harvest insights, questions, and moments of wonder that arise.
This experience offers an opportunity to reconnect with the living world, expand our empathy beyond the human lens, and explore how shifting perspective can inform both personal insight and nature-inspired innovation.
Hosted by Biomimicry Institute Communications Manager Jen Fredette.
🌍 February 19 — Nature as Blueprint: Scaling Climate Solutions Across Bioregions with Justin Winters
11:00 AM PT
Our planet is a mosaic of interconnected bioregions, each home to unique communities, cultures, and ecosystems. In this AskNature Hive conversation, Justin Winters, Co-Founder and Executive Director of One Earth, explores how bioregional thinking can guide the design and funding of climate solutions that work with nature rather than against it. Grounded in One Earth’s Bioregions and Solutions Frameworks, this discussion highlights how aligning local knowledge, science, and investment can restore balance between people and planet.
Hosted by AskNature Chief Editor Andrew Howley.
🌍 February 27 — Hive Lit Club: Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
12:00 PM PT
This gathering invites our community to explore Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, a provocative novel that challenges the cultural stories shaping how humans relate to the rest of life. Through guided discussion, we’ll reflect on the “Taker” and “Leaver” worldview, question assumptions of progress and dominance, and consider how these narratives influence modern design, economics, and our relationship with nature. Together, we’ll connect the book’s insights to biomimicry thinking and what it means to learn from, rather than dominate, the living world.
Hosted by AskNature Director Camilo Garzón
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