The AskNature Podcast

Sound design and composer duo, Simon Thomas George and Lucas Murray, adapt life's principles and bridge biology with sound design to create the sonic layers and music you heard during each episode of season 1 of the AskNature Podcast.

Hosted by Senior Producer Ayoade Balogun.

Let us know what you thought of Season 1!

Like feedback loops in the adaptive cycle found in nature, your feedback will inform the future of this project and offering, helping us understand what we can learn from both nature and you.

Tell us your thoughts, here: AskNature.org/survey

To close our inaugural season, engineer and biomimic Gamelihle (Gama) Sibanda takes us on a journey from his formative years in Zimbabwe to using the architectural wisdom of ants and termites to solve real-world flooding crises.

Tune in to episode 6 to explore how one can take a childhood curiosity of observing insects and turn it into a global engineering framework, bringing together Indigenous knowledge, biomimicry, and the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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Hosted by Amanda Sturgeon, CEO of the Biomimicry Institute, and Andrew Howley, Chief Editor.

Sound design and music composition by Simon Thomas George and Lucas Murray.

Senior producer is Ayoade Balogun.

The AskNature Podcast is a project of The Biomimicry Institute.

What will you AskNature next?

If we asked nature, what would it teach us about the true meaning of community, democracy, and technology?

As we AskNature for balance in a digital age of rapid AI and cascading climate crises, storyteller, author, and host Baratunde Thurston invites us to transition from a story of isolated extraction to a declaration of interdependence.

“How do we remember our belonging to each other and to the Earth?” – Baratunde Thurston

Tune in to Episode 5 of the AskNature Podcast to explore what it means to step away from techno-fascism, and learn how to citizen as true, interconnected citizens of the Earth.

Hosted by Amanda Sturgeon, CEO of the Biomimicry Institute, and Andrew Howley, Chief Editor.

Sound design and music composition by Simon Thomas George and Lucas Murray.

Senior producer is Ayoade Balogun.

The AskNature Podcast is a project of The Biomimicry Institute.

What will you AskNature next?

As we AskNature for nature positive solutions to climate resilient design, author and designer Julia Watson challenges us to look beyond high tech fixes and embrace the multi generational genius of LO-TEK infrastructure.

"I’m really interested in exploring:  How is contemporary technology interacting or intersecting with ancestral knowledge systems to create new forms of technologies that we've never seen before?"
– Julia Watson

Tune in to Episode 4 of the AskNature Podcast to travel from the 6,500 year old floating reed islands of Iraq to the potential that indigenous knowledge carries for designing the infrastructures of contemporary cities.

Hosted by Amanda Sturgeon, CEO of the Biomimicry Institute, and Andrew Howley, Chief Editor.

Sound design and music composition by Simon Thomas George and Lucas Murray.

Senior producer is Ayoade Balogun.

The AskNature Podcast is a project of The Biomimicry Institute.?

What will you AskNature next?

If we asked nature, what would it reveal about the landscapes we walk through every day?

“Every single shape, every color we see is a solution to a certain problem” – Tristan Gooley

As we AskNature to help us read the clues and signs of the more than human world, natural navigator Tristan Gooley reminds us that nothing in nature is random and everything is connected.

Tune in to Episode 3 of the AskNature Podcast to unpack the two pillars of wayfinding and learn how a simple five minute walk can unlock your brain's evolutionary potential.

Hosted by Amanda Sturgeon, CEO of the Biomimicry Institute, and Andrew Howley, Chief Editor.

Sound design and music composition by Simon Thomas George and Lucas Murray.

Senior producer is Ayoade Balogun.

The AskNature Podcast is a project of The Biomimicry Institute.

What will you AskNature next?