• Art as Exploration

  • Creations that invite conversation & reflection.

  • Science as Structure

  • Learning from nature, we link concepts across disciplines, exploring tiny structures and vast systems.

Book:
Imagining the Self

What do you want your future to be?

Self-reflect on such questions with Imagining the Self:
An art and science exploration of transformation.

Looking forward to building brilliant futures with you all.

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Work in progress

Living Patterns

Each project begins with a question, letting curiosity guide the process.

Biology informs blueprint as we move between research and creation.

About the Artist

Connecting ideas across art, science, and systems, Kira’s creations invite reflection on our evolving relationship with life.

Kira learns about the living world, asking questions that build on expertise in landscape design, biomimicry, microscopy, ecosystems, hand crafting and 3D modelling.

Adaptive Ecosystems

We offer illustration and technical drawings through a collaborative process, inviting insight from scientists, artists, and innovators who inform and guide the process.

Approach

Through art, writing, and knowledge-sharing, we help other professionals refine their craft.

We mostly draw in vector, and illustrations can be translated into models for CNC machining and 3D printing.

Reflections of light
Algae imaging

Art:

Diatom Lanterns

How can diatoms inspire lanterns and light-based art?

Diatom Lanterns is a series of sculptural lights inspired by microscopic algae, tiny organisms that grow shells of glass (SiO2).

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Art:

Imagining the Self

How does nature transform?

Imagining the Self is a book about change, how we adapt to our environment and reshape ourselves in the process.

Sharing stories and illustrations, it offers tools for navigating transformation with intention.

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Free Worksheets

Infographics

Biomimicry:

This learning resource includes infographics that will help you work with science and living systems.

Both documents can help you align nature and technology as you work through research, design and business problems.

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The Biomimicry Process
Life-Friendly Chemistry

Partners

Lichen Labs

Biology expertise, materials science, and microscopes.

Lightcraft Design

Bringing colour and light to festivals in Alberta and BC.

Moment Discovery

The theory and practice of emerging technologies.

Big sparkly toys.

NatuRnD

Exploring nature-based solutions through research, education, and action.

B-Hive

A group of biomimicry specialists who share expertise and build collaborative projects.

Biomimicry Alberta

Alberta’s community of practice.

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Adaptive Ecosystems is found on the banks of the river kisiskâciwanisîpiy, which brings water, plants, air, and uncountable other benefits to the beings that live in and along its edge, including humans. We acknowledge this space as the home and meeting place of many Indigenous Peoples.