"Since 1977 was the fifty-year target date, I began the prototyping of my Fly's Eye dome, which embodied design attention to all that I had learned not only throughout that fifty-year development period but in all my thirty-two earlier years." Read more
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2013 Challenge Juror and design science pioneer, Jay Baldwin, introduces his student Griffin Goldsmith on Buckminster Fuller and Biomimicry. Read more
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The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. Read more
A concise and brilliant synthesis of Fuller's world view, in which he investigates the great challenges facing humanity, and the principles for avoiding extinction and “exercising our option to make it.” More information.
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Born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895, Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary, who dedicated his life to making the world work for all of humanity. Read more
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