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Comprehensive, anticipatory science is problem-solving approached defined by R. Buckminster Fuller as “the effective application of the principles of science to the conscious design of our total environment in order to help make the Earth’s finite resources meet the needs of all of humanity without disrupting the ecological processes of the planet.” No comment yet.
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Most people know that Earth's landmasses once formed single supercontinent, but how said continent peeled away from itself – or the extent to which Earth's continents remain connected – is not always immediately apparent. Delete the scoop?
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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, has announced the Call for Proposals for the 2013 prize cycle. Deadline is April 12th, 5pm EST. Named "Socially-Responsible Design’s Highest Award" by Metropolis Magazine, the Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual global competition recognizing bold, creative and visionary initiatives that take a comprehensive, anticipatory, design science approach to radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. As part of a rigorous review process, a distinguished jury selects a winner and awards a $100,000 prize to be conferred at an award ceremony in New York City in November. Now in it's sixth year, BFI will again award a grand prize of $100,000 to a winning entrant. New this year, BFI has created an infrastructure of support for a larger pool of entrants to gain support and grow a community in design science. Committed to accelerating the implementation of as many outstanding projects as possible, the Buckminster Fuller Institute is proud to be partnering with a number of organizations and companies to help further support a select number of entries with mentoring, incubation, educational resources, etc. Read more about their extended opportunities in the 2013 cycle, the full Call for Proposals, and apply - or nominate a project - today. Delete the scoop?
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Writer Alvin Toffler once described architect, theorist, designer, and futurist Buckminster Fuller as “one of the most-powerful myth-makers and myth-exposers of our time … a controversial, constructive, endlessly energetic metaphor-maker who sees things differently from the rest of us, and thereby makes us see ourselves afresh” — perhaps the richest and most accurate account of a mind to whom we owe more than we realize. Delete the scoop?
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In 1953, Fuller was commissioned to build a dome in Woods Hole by architect (and aspiring restauranteur) Gunnar Peterson. The dome would become the posh Dome Restaurant. Diners could gaze through the building’s triangular windows out on onto the sea. A zither player named Ruth Welcome entertained guests. Delete the scoop?
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Danish architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen have set out to create a site-specific piece of architecture that reinvestigates the future of housing and boy, did they succeed! Their deconstructed dome, a meeting place and the exhibition tent for the Danish National Association for Social Housing, is an exploded version of a dome that can be shaped according to its surroundings. Engaging surfaces and niches created by splitting the original form seem to reveal the true beauty of the dome’s anatomy.
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Using non-contact atomic force microscopy, researchers at IBM have been able to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules for the first time. Delete the scoop?
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Video about the process of research, development and assembly of a Geodesic Dome Bamboo as support for acrobatic performances, conducted jointly by GROW AND LIVE and Laboratory Design for Living History and Design at PUC-RJ, with support from Awards Aesthetic interactions Funarte / MinC. Delete the scoop?
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He has been called the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century—and his inventions remain influential today. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) devoted himself to helping humanity through innovative design. He was granted, in all, 25 patents, most famously for the easy-to-assemble geodesic dome. "The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area," at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through July 29, presents photographs, drawings and models of his creations, along with local designs inspired by his philosophy. "In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model," he said. "You create a new model and make the old one obsolete." Delete the scoop?
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Madison Square Park Conservancy's Mad. Sq. Art announces a new, monumental sculpture by distinguished artist Leo Villareal. Largely inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, Villareal’s BUCKYBALL will apply concepts of geometry and mathematical relationships within a towering 30-foot tall, illuminated sculpture. The site-specific work will remain on view daily from October 25, 2012 through February 2013 in Madison Square Park.
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A collection of images and words curated by the R. Buckminster Fuller community. Delete the scoop?
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Sure, he's famous for giving us the geodesic dome — the super-lightweight building that gets stronger as it gets bigger — but Buckminster Fuller's legacy extends way beyond the soccer-ball structure. He was an avid futurist who tinkered in mathematics, engineering, environmental science, architecture, and art, all the while keeping notes in a mad-scientist-style filing system he called the Dymaxion Chronofile.
There was nothing mad, however, about Fuller's objectives: He just wanted to invent devices that would help humankind and protect the planet (which he dubbed, no kidding, "Spaceship Earth") Delete the scoop?
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The difficulty with both the SFMOMA exhibit and Green’s film is that, by choosing to focus on Fuller in the Bay Area, they have also chosen to ignore the greater context of his work. In fact, Green did not interview anyone for his documentary who actually knew or worked with Fuller personally, despite the fact that many of them are still alive and active. Without this context, it becomes far too easy to dismiss him and some of his far-fetched ideas as the products of a crackpot rather than an innovator trying to challenge the status quo. Delete the scoop?
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If you look around, the geodesic dome is everywhere, from childrens toys to sports stadiums. Most credit architect Buckminster Fuller for that, but not many know the totality of his futurist vision. Delete the scoop?
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Like Tesla before him, Buckminster Fuller is one of those weirdo geniuses whose failures are even more fascinating than his successes. Delete the scoop?
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April 4th, 5th & 6th - Carbondale, Illinois
Join us for a unique event honoring the work, philosophy and influence of Buckminster Fuller as it pertains to Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale and the World.
The Fuller Future Festival will include a wide range of events, opportunities and experiences. Honoring the comprehensive approach that Bucky championed, the festival will embody many disciplines. Events will include presentations, panels, workshops, films, performances, exhibits and opportunities to engage in collaborative solution building.
The festival will be an opportunity to bring together artists, poets, designers, feminists, filmmakers, futurists, musicians, environmentalists, innovators, entrepreneurs, architects, engineers and all others interested in the legacy of Buckminster Fuller and the forwarding of his ideas for a sustainable future. Delete the scoop?
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David McConville, President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute (www.bfi.org), explores how the comprehensive strategies emerging from the Buckminster Fuller Challenge are addressing wicked problems around the world.
Featured talk for RE-VIEWING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 4: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller's Legacy September 28, 2012 Asheville, NC Delete the scoop?
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The artist Leo Villareal is installing a 30-foot tall, illuminated sculpture, titled "Buckyball," in Madison Square Park. Delete the scoop?
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Fish farms might seem like floating maximum-security jails, or feedlots that resemble trampolines wallowing in water. Near-shore cages can collect waste on the sea floor and act as a breeding grounds for disease. Delete the scoop?
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On Buckminster Fuller's birthday, Boing Boing co-founder David Pescovitz pays tribute to the great American inventor, architect, engineer and visionary, and celebrates "the importance of unintended consequences."... Delete the scoop?
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This animation presents the geometry that is the basis of many of Fuller's key ideas and concepts. At the beginning, twelve spheres are packed as closely as possible around a single central sphere. As the spheres shrink and disappear, they generate a polyhedron in which all edges and all radii are of equal length. This shape is what Fuller called a vector equilibrium. One of the characteristics of a vector equilibrium is its ability to contract by folding in on itself. The animation demonstrates how this simple geometric shape can be transformed to create several complex polyhedra. Next, it produces a different version of a vector equilibrium that Fuller called tensegrity—short for a stable structure of tensional integrity. In the last part of the animation, a map of the entire globe is transferred onto the vector equilibrium, which unfolds to produce a flat map of the earth made from six squares and eight triangles. Unlike conventional world maps, Fuller's vector equilibrium map represents the world with minimal distortions to the relative size of the continents. Delete the scoop?
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Buckliballs, with their geometric design and near-magical behaviour, encapsulate the cleverness and beauty for which extreme-mechanics researchers yearn. Looking ahead, the more theoretically minded foresee a new set of general rules that could describe the behaviour of any flexible solid as it crumples. Meanwhile, those with an engineering bent imagine robots with appendages that can transform into tools or squeeze, octopus-like, through tiny spaces; backpacks that expand into tents; and mobile phones that users can roll up and stick behind their ears like a pencil. They see a whole realm of devices that transmute failure into function. That could all be years in the making — but Bertoldi and her rapt audience already see far more in this field than engineers' toys. Delete the scoop?
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The Miaofeng mountain area, located about 30 km west of Beijing, is slated to be reborn as a gorgeous new "Ecological Silicon Valley." Located close to the urban metropolis of Beijing, the new city will combine research institutes for modern science and innovation with environmentally friendly and eco-efficient urban living. The master plan for the eco-city was laid out by the Finnish firm, Eriksson Architects in collaboration with Finnish ecological experts Eero Paloheimo Eco City Ltd. With goals of carbon neutrality, respect for the environment, water and energy conservation, renewable energy, and housing and amenities for all employees and visitors, the Mentougou Eco Valley aims to reduce its environmental footprint to one third that of a typical city of similar size.
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Design group N55 teamed with architect Anne Romme to create a lightweight, easy to assemble greenhouse based on un-repeating cellular structures. The SPACEPLATES Greenhouse, South Bristol Skills Academy at City of Bristol College, is a part of a series of structures that use low tech materials to create modular greenhouses without substructure supports. Delete the scoop?
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An exhibition dusts for evidence of Fuller in the world as we see it today, and points to credible signs that his fingerprints are all over the dynamic concepts and multi-functional aesthetics that drive modern architecture and design. Delete the scoop?
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1895-1983 American theorist, architect, engineer, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Delete the scoop?
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