buckymap-puzzle, a screen-based application - An online puzzle of the Buckminster Fuller Projection "Our Spaceship Earth" satellite map. Turning maps up side down, dressing the image of the earth in another fashion can renew our vision of the world. Buckminster Fuller did this with his Dymaxion World Map (1936-1956), that is build up out of triangles that can be put together in all kind of variations. The continent as a continuous unity. In Fullers words: "the outdated divisions of the world in East and West, North and South". Here you can play the best known variation.

In 2001, the digital buckymap puzzle was produced by Susanne Schuricht in collaboration with Holger Struppek and Lauren Darges from the Buckminster Fuller Institute. It's dedicated to Buckminster Fuller and created as a kind of present for the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

By Paul Taylor

"A map of the world which doesn't include Utopia isn't even worth glancing at."

- Oscar Wilde

"The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations."
- J. Rousset

This [online] document is a study of the comprehensive designer Buckminster Fuller, an outstanding character of the 20th century, and a kind of practical visionary.

Fuller's remarkable career as an inventor, architect, designer, cartographer, writer and theorist amounts to a design syllabus in itself, even if his own conclusions and solutions are not accepted and applied. Many people would argue that life might be vastly improved if his designs were better known and implemented.
This presentation of his ideas is not intended as a slavish devotional exercise, nor a piece of cynical criticism. Part of the plan here is to investigate the logic of synergetics. At this stage the account is verbal, not visual, but what is important in geometry is the logic rather than the pictures.