There are few better designers in this world than Mother Nature herself. Not short on time, Nature’s evolutionary approach to design weeds out weaknesses and promotes strengths over millions and even billions of years in order to create masterpieces that seem perfectly suited for their environments. From lichen, to dragonflies, to humans, each successful life form finds its niche and thrives alongside others who have done the same thing. Attempting to mimic Nature’s approach but on much shorter timescales, humans created a form finding process called generative design. Using artificial intelligence, generative design takes all the potential variables and finds the best ways to meet a predetermined objective. Want to replace a brick wall with something just as strong but a fraction of the weight, and generative design will likely give you a complex mesh in a light, high strength material, unlike anything we have seen before. “Generative design is a departure from the way […]