Feral by Design
Pia Williams
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About This Podcast
Feral by Design is a podcast that uses biomimicry to steal nature’s smartest strategies for human chaos.
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.
Grounded in real science, told through self-deprecating stories, and always surprisingly practical.
Biomimicry made accessible, useful, and genuinely fun.
Nature owns the patent. We get to copy it.
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Recent Episodes
S2E10 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…
S2E9 Too Fast To Think: The Sloth Strategy For Better Decisions
A homemade billy cart hurtles downhill through a suburban intersection. A keynote slide turns into an entirely new workshop framework. A conference room applauds the removal of friction from modern…
S2E8 Too Fast to Be Legal: The Shark Skin Scandal
Bob Hawke looks down the camera and says: any boss who sacks an employee for not showing up today is a bum.A nation stops. Beer is raised. A boat wins. A jacket becomes iconic.That’s what we…
S2E7 Dementia: When You Can’t Tell If It’s Pain or Panic | The Firefly Signal
A man raises a glass for two people he's loved for sixty years. A woman stands in a car park, looking up at the sky, saying: I don't know what you're trying to tell me. A baby cries, and no one knows…
S2E6 Moral Vertigo: When Distant Events Reshape Everyday Life
A friend cancels a trip. Petrol prices climb. A flight route disappears. None of it looks broken, but something doesn’t quite behave normally anymore.It's April 2026, as the world watches a war…
S2E5 It’s Not What You Feel. It’s What You Emit.
I could feel them shut down. What happens when you feel yourself shift and can’t quite stop it? Weakly electric fish navigate murky water by emitting a constant field, and everything in range…
S2E4 Biomimicry Explained: A Feral Field Note
Most people have heard the word biomimicry. Very few actually know what it means.This short field note explains how the ideas in Feral by Design work - how scientists study organisms, uncover the…
S2E3 Deadly Reflections: The Hidden Danger In Every Window
Nature has notes. Apparently, sometimes she delivers them in person.This one arrived as a stunned kingfisher on Pia's porch tiles, moments after flying full-tilt into her window. Literally as she was…
S2E2 Scratching the Wrong Itch: Wombats, mange and why our systems won’t heal
This episode came from noticing a place biomimicry could quietly change the way Pia works, thanks to a wombat called Chardonnay.She’s treated wombats with mange in the wild. Every few days, hiking…
S2E1 Between the Flags: Static signals, moving risk
A swim that went wrong. A lifesaver’s eyes locked on mine. And a question I couldn’t shake.Most safety systems are built for calm moments. But danger rarely shows up when we’re calm. At the beach,…
S1 Dopa Drop #12 — Quokkas
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #11 - Wave
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #10 — Magical creature
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #9 — Cuttlefish
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #8 — Manta Ray
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #7 — Regifting
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #6 — Octopus
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1 Dopa Drop #5 — Crab
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
S1E10 Snowflake Melting Moments
The second episode in the Feral Festive Special drifts into unexpected territory: snowflakes. This episode isn’t biomimicry — snowflakes don’t behave — but the pattern they form, shaped by whatever…
S1 Dopa Drop #4 — Lyrebird
A pre-Christmas Dopa Drop — one of twelve tiny, under-60-second December dopamine hits from Feral by Design.A short, deliberate experiment playing with different dopamine triggers and pacing across…
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Feral by Design has published 21 episodes since October 2025, covering topics in Arts, Business.
Feral by Design is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 12m.
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