From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Lining Yao, a PhD Candidate at Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab discusses how Technology, is designed to recapitulate biology. As we strive to design physical objects and architecture that are adaptive, responsive and ever evolving, we find ourselves immersed in Nature’s way. Yet, after years of practice in transforming materiality for adaptive physical interfaces, we realize that it is the combination of the two worldviews — both natural and engineering approaches — that generates a method including their best facets: adaptation with speed, transformation with accuracy, growth with control and response with augmented purposes.