Events

We are hosting a regular research seminar online, and plan an expert workshop onsite in 2024. Watch this space or subscribe to our mailing list!

  • Invited keynote talk at the IWBE 2025 in Vienna

    At the International Workshop on Bionic Engineering from 23 to 27 September 2025 in Vienna, the project team was invited to a talk on “The Epistemic Profile of biomimetics and its Ontological Backbone”. The talk was presented by Manfred Drack.


  • Invited talk by Manfred Drack

    At the annual meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG) from 8 to 12 September 2025 in Berlin Manfred Drack gave a talk in the Satellite Symposium Developmental Biology: Looking at Evo-Devo through the Prism of Network Science and Systems Biology. The title of the talk was “The system approach to organisms: contributions to evolutionary…


  • Invited talk by Manfred Drack

    On 4 Dec 2024 Manfred Drack gives a talk on “Biomimetics and its benefits for biology” at the University of Vienna, organized by the Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Österreich. https://www.zoobot.org/veranstaltung/lv_drack_2024/


  • Function and functioning in biomimetics: a critical appraisal

    Online-Presentation by Alan C. Love on Monday, 9 September 2024, 20:00 CEST (Berlin Time) All are invited. Link below. Updates will be posted on our mailing list. Abstract: The concept of function has received extensive attention from philosophers of biology and yet continues to be a controversial topic. In biomimetics, “function” can serve as a…


  • Workshop: The Foundations of Biomimetics

    On March, 5–7, 2024, we met at the university guest house in Tübingen with members of our advisory board, other biomimetics experts and philosophers to discuss the foundations of biomimetics. Researchers from the US joined in via Zoom. Tuesday 5.3.20249:00-9:15 Welcome9:15-10:45 Object of Research and Research Approach: Manfred Drack, Oliver Betz10:45-11:15 Coffee break11:15-12:45 Methods and Objectives:…


  • New Postdoc in the Team

    We are proud to welcome Dr. Dilek Yargan in the research team for the DFG-funded project on the epistemology and ontology of biomimetics. Dilek has degrees in philosophy, mathematics and science education, and a PhD in philosophy. As an expert in applied ontology, she will mainly work on the ontological analysis of biomimetics.


  • Following Nature: Ontological, epistemological, and ethical remarks on a current phenomenon in the Anthropocene

    Online Talk by Philipp Höfele on Monday, 13. November 2023, 20:00 CET Abstract. The diagnosis of the Anthropocene, according to which humans, through their technological actions, are irreversibly and in part ecologically irresponsibly inscribing themselves in nature or, more precisely, in the geological strata, is currently being widely discussed in almost all sciences and beyond.…


  • The map is not the territory: Remarks about simulation

    Online-Presentation by Klaus Kornwachs on 5 June 2023, 20:00 CEST (Berlin time) Abstract: Sometimes the rationale for “Bionically” driven design of technology is seen as a kind of transfer from technical models to models of natural processes and structures, particularly in biology.  This is true, of course, because historically and methodologically technology – as a…


  • Evening talk by Manfred Drack on 8 May 2023

    At the 5. Bionik-Kongress Baden-Württemberg Manfred Drack will give a talk on “Strategies from nature: What can we learn from them?” (German) on 8 May 2023 at 18:00 in the Technoseum in Mannheim.


  • The power of translation: From natural to biotechnical form

    Online-Presentation by Marco Tamborini on Monday, 13. March 2023, 20:00 CET (Berlin Time) All are invited. Link will be posted on our mailing list. Abstract: In this presentation, I explore how bio-hybrid forms can be created and combined when starting out from organic forms. The thesis I advance here is epistemological: the combinatorial practice of…