Biomimicry as Metodological Tool for Technical Emancipation of Peripheral Countries

Abstract

The classical methods of design, based on linear sequences, logic, rigid and vertical, analogous to the exact sciences, aimed to justify and establish the traditional models of disseminated industrial production through technological hegemony of the central countries. This led to a special kind of development, it has proven unsustainable, because it imposes the logic of the market of production and consumption of their goods. Although this experience has provided a technology that meets the objectives for which it is applied, it does not meet the essential requirements set out in current methodologies, guided by the systematic and interdisciplinary approach. This paper presents the Natural Mimesis (Biomimicry) as a methodological alternative in the reform of the Common Development Model, orienting it towards the systemic sustainability and the generation of own technologies. From the critical review of the model conducted by the Center countries, proposes to reform its concepts and paradigms in the elaboration of specific technologies for the reality of the Peripheral countries aiming their technological emancipation. The use of natural mimesis is strategic for Innovation and perceived, in this context, as a cutting-edge alternative in the structuration of new model. Biomimicry is based on the principles of sustainability, economy and excellence of nature, from its forms and functions, to the systemic processes. Its application in projects allows to emulate the natural way of to produce and integrate it with the artificial, guiding the Design according to sustainable models as a fundamental principle. The biomimetic approach promotes a new way of to conceive the artificial and therefore, to provide the autonomy and the technological independence of the developing countries from their ideological bases.