Urban Abundance

Recreating Urban Abundance in Hout Bay:

Our team was involved in an Informal South project which involved a co-creative process to identify opportunities for restoring the health of Hout Bay in Cape Town with a focus on the Disa River catchment area. We walked the Disa River catchment area together with local residents, scoped the critical challenges along the river. We identified opportunities for how nature's genius could inform the restoration of nature and the community.

There are many opportunities for biomimicry in complex systems. The opportunities for this Hout Bay project are as diverse as biodiverse ecosystems themselves. In addition to these three levels of applying biomimicry, there are also three alternative options for biomimicry interventions for any design challenge: Biomimicry Technologies, Methodology and/or Thinking. This initial scoping review of opportunities is now part of a larger proposal for raising funds to implement some of the ideas generated.