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By Esayas S. Gebremedhin How life inspires innovation
By Esayas S. Gebremedhin
How life inspires innovation
• “ I t 's not easy to see
th ings in the middle,
rather than looking down
on them from above or up
at them from below, or
f rom lef t to r ight or r ight
to le f t : t ry i t , you' l l see
that everyth ing changes.”
Deleuz and Guattar i
origin of lalialfia
Meaning of laliaflia
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LaLia
FLia
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LaLia
FLia
living artefacts
living artefacts
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LaLia
FLia
life inspired artefacts
life inspired artefacts
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LaLia
FLia
future life inspired artefacts
future life inspired artefacts
abstraction vs. imitation
Laliaflia
Bionics/ BiomimicryWeak abstraction.
Abstract
Extract
Derive
Imitate Intigrate
Pure abstraction.
abstraction vs. imitation
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?MethaphorAesthetics
concept
Behaviour
Material
function
Form
layers of inspiration
layers of inspiration
99%of any creat ive or innovat ive work comes f rom in-spi rat ion!
layers of inspiration
• Out-source the power of In-spi rat ion!
• Inspi rat ion can come f rom anywhere.
• Lal ia f l ia is about WHERE we get our inspi rat ion f rom and HOW.
metaphor
aesthetics
concept
form/ function
behaviour
material
star beats tree in creativity
star beats tree in creativity
star beats tree in creativity• yahoo • google
principles and mysteries
independent
insightful
subconscious
Copyr ight La l ia f l ia © 2009
principles and mysteries
process driven
first choice
ignorant
Copyr ight La l ia f l ia © 2009
nothing is invented yet
LA FLIALIA
"Al low space
for the ideas
you haven’t
had yet , and
for the ideas
of others."
Bruce Mau
Copyr ight La l ia f l ia © 2009
design inspires design
design inspires design
life inspires design
design life thinking
design life thinking
• "The Internet wi l l be one big Organism"
Kevin Kel ly
• "What we rea l ly want to do at Google
is create an Art i f ic ia l Inte l l igence"
Larry Page
• Li fe as code that is interchangeable,
that can become energy, that can
become food.. .” Juan Enr iquez
