Pflanzenrevolution

To secure our own future on Earth, we must draw inspiration from plants. In his new book, Stefano Mancuso develops a revolutionary perspective on the plant world. Plants have evolved completely different survival strategies over millions of years than we have: While humans rely on centralized, hierarchical solutions, plants act flexibly, decentrally, and as a community. They consume very little energy, survive under extreme conditions, learn from experience, and have found thousands of solutions that are quite different from those of the more familiar animal world. How plants capture light and utilize energy already serves as inspiration for architecture; how the root network unlocks and processes information makes it a model for a collective organism. From the construction of new robots to the organization of large communities.