Podcast Overview
<p><b>Feral by Design is a podcast that uses biomimicry to steal nature’s smartest strategies for human chaos.</b></p><p><br></p><p>Each episode starts with a messy real-world problem, turns to a creature that’s already solved something similar, looks at their strategies and follows the thread you didn’t see coming. Sometimes it lands on one idea, sometimes a few - but it always lands somewhere useful.</p><p>Grounded in real science, told through self-deprecating stories, and always surprisingly practical.</p><p>Biomimicry made accessible, useful, and genuinely fun.<br>Nature owns the patent. We get to copy it.</p>
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Publishing Since
10/9/2025
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Recent Episodes
July 7, 2026
London's Beaver Engineers
London has just rehired an employee it fired four hundred years ago. No severance. No apology. Just an awkward, "Come back. We clearly can't do your job without you." Her name's Willow, and she's a beaver. When five Eurasian beavers were reintroduced beside Greenford Tube station in West London as part of the Ealing Beaver Project, they quietly solved a flooding problem that engineers, councils and commuters had lived with for decades. But the real story sits beneath the headlines. The counci...
June 19, 2026
Diminished: The Hidden Cost of Injury
A 14-year-old boy suffers two brain bleeds in a freak accident at school. He comes home and sleeps 21 hours a day. To everyone watching, it looks like the world has gone quiet. In nature, that stillness isn't defeat. It's a high-stakes repair cycle we're only just beginning to understand. This episode sits inside the gap between the crisis everyone rallies around and the long, invisible recovery nobody quite knows how to show up for, when contribution disappears, healing looks like nothing, a...
June 1, 2026
When Red Wine Meets Your Laptop: Trainwrecks & Tree Canopies
Red wine meets MacBook. Laundry floods. Toilet leaks. All within 24 hours. Somewhere between staring at flood-damaged laundry cabinets and Googling "how much liquid can a MacBook survive?", Pia realised she'd recently spent a lot of time thinking about forest canopies, distributed load, and what happens when systems become overly dependent on a single point. Professionally, she spends a lot of time thinking about how systems absorb pressure. Personally, she'd accidentally designed herself as ...
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- What is Feral by Design?
<p><b>Feral by Design is a podcast that uses biomimicry to steal nature’s smartest strategies for human chaos.</b></p><p><br></p><p>Each episode starts with a messy real-world problem, turns to a creature that’s already solved something similar, looks at their strategies and follows the thread you didn’t see coming. Sometimes it lands on one idea, sometimes a few - but it always lands somewhere useful.</p><p>Grounded in real science, told through self-deprecating stories, and always surprisingly practical.</p><p>Biomimicry made accessible, useful, and genuinely fun.<br>Nature owns the patent. We get to copy it.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
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