Definitions and Resources
BFI is committed to continued research into the practice and fundamental principles of comprehensive anticipatory design science and its relevance to contemporary global issues and design practice. Below we offer a wide range of writings, presentations, and surveys from an array of international scholars pertaining to Design Science.
Design Science: A Framework for Change by Michael Ben- Eli
Sustainability: The Five Core Principles by Michael Ben-Eli
Design Science by Amy Edmondson
Places to Intervene in a System by Donella Meadows
Design as Savior, Designer as Slave by Jay Baldwin
Environmental Design Science Primer by Howard Brown, Robert Cook & Medard Gabel
World Design Science Decade Documents
Eight Strategies for Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science by Buckminster Fuller (1956)
A Candid Conversation with the Visionary Architect/Inventor/Philosopher, R. Buckminster Fuller Playboy, Vol 19 no. 2, February 1972
Fuller on Design Science a collection of speeches and writings by Fuller
How Would You Define CADS? a BFI questionnaire (1992)