The Design Science Lab offers a unique opportunity to develop solutions to global and local problems. It features hands-on training experience in complex problem solving employing an approach pioneered by R. Buckminster Fuller and others called comprehensive anticipatory design science.
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SPACE IS LIMITED – APPLY NOW! | BFI Members receive a 10% discount ! |
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| by Peter Jon Pearce, Architect and author of Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design
My book, Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design, was published by The MIT Press in 1978. This book was based upon work that I undertook in 1965, supported by a fellowship from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies. The title of my original proposal to the Foundation was, Structurally Autonomous Geometrically Adaptable Cellular Systems. |
A nine week course exploring a new kind of practical geometry based on the work of R. Buckminster Fuller.
Due to popular demand we are offering two new five week classes!
- June 20th — July 20th
- July 25th — August 24th
Tuesdays & Thursday evenings from 6:30 - 9:30pm at the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Brooklyn, New York
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Space is limited — register today! | BFI members receive a 10% discount.
Instructor: Tom Miller
» View some images from the class |
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Our ‘Ask the Expert’ program offers you the opportunity to glean the insights of some of the leading Design Science pioneers working today.
This feature invites you to pose a question, the answer to which will be posted to our website. Our 'experts' have agreed to field questions covering specific topics of inquiry in which they feel qualified to respond.
To read responses and ask a question please click on read more below.
Last update: April 27th 2006: Art and Design Science
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Resident Expert: Jay Baldwin
In residence since November 2005
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BFI's 24 foot Fly's Eye Dome will be on view for the duration of the Mobile-living exhibition.
The Future Has Arrived
From new designs by America's classic Airstream Trailers, Adam Kalkin's Push Button House shown at Art Basel Miami, to Shiguro Ban's Paper Tube Architecture featured in MOMA's Safe Exhibition — Mobile Living is in the forefront of design. Mobile homes, prefab homes, temporary homes all address the need for new innovative methods of housing.
| Tuesday, 5/23/2006, 6:00–9:00pm
Mobile Living Film Series
Basic Bucky
An 11-segment video taken from Comprehensive Design: The Legacy of Buckminster Fuller, a Dome-Encapsulated Multi-Media Traveling Exhibit (1990). The clips feature Fuller demonstrating his own futuristic inventions through Nature's Generalized Principles: Leverage, Tension and Compression; Pattern Integrity; Synergy; Universe as Scenario; Artifacts/Inventions: Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Car, Geodesic and Fly's Eye Domes, and Roofs over Cities; Energetic/Synergetic Geometry: Euler's Topology: Angle and Frequency, The Triangle: Basic Structure; The Three Basic Structural Systems; The Vector Equilibrium. 32 minutes. |
l – r: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, 1971. Photograph by Arnold Eagle. Courtesy The Noguchi Museum, NY | | May 19 – October 15, 2006
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City, New York
A special exhibition devoted to the long friendship and collaboration between visionary designer and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller and acclaimed sculptor and designer Isamu Noguchi opens at The Noguchi Museum on May 19, 2006.
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CJ Fearnley contributed a model of Buckminster Fuller's "12 Degrees of Freedom Tensegrity Tetrahedron" to the Philadelphia Business Journal's "40 Under 40" time capsule.
Philadelphia, PA - 8 May 2006 - On 2 May 2006, one of the Synergetics Collaborative's co-founders, CJ Fearnley, presented a model of Buckminster Fuller's "12 Degrees of Freedom Tensegrity Tetrahedron" to the Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 time capsule. |
| Synergetics Collaborative (SNEC) presents its Fourth Annual Workshop on Applied Synergetics in Oswego, NY, 12-13 August 2006
Description: The Synergetics Collaborative's Fourth Annual Summer Workshop in Oswego will focus on "Applied Synergetics: Living Structures". |
The three main workshops will be as follows:
- Compound Curved Metal Shelters
- Integrating Field Structure Theory and Quantum Architecture
- Folding Surface Structures and Deployable Kinetic Architecture
In addition, there will be artifact exhibit space for participants and a session for participants to discuss their work.
by Wil Fidroeff
Bucky might have called what I do, "comprehensive anticipatory design science". I call designing a better home, "thinking about everything when you do anything". Many problems exist with building any type of home. I am now 60 years old, with 20 years of conventional construction experience, and, 20 years of dome building experience. I have always felt that more liveable, functional, and ecomomical homes could be built using geodesic dome kits, if, the dome kits and building processes were comprehensively designed. Thinking about everything during the design and planning process does result in a home that is easy to build.
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