William Irwin Thompson on the Horizons of Planetary Culture
My second rap with poet-philosopher William Irwin Thompson, on the transformations of self and society in an age of collapse and emergence – of cyborgs, surveillance, and psychedelics, paranoid apocalypticism and inspired new visions for our species…
Biospherics: What Nature Does for Us
John Allen’s focus on Biosphere 2 was different from the mainstream. Typically, biological and ecological research is devoted to understanding the individual parts of systems, or even ecosystems. Allen wanted to know how the whole thing worked.
Geodesic Deconstruction
Bent on expanding and modernizing the geodesic dome, two Danish architects, Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen, exploded the design.
Start With Universe
Buckminster Fuller insisted that
the sense of separation from nature is a dangerous illusion, and that humanity's
evolutionary success is dependent on our willingness to learn from the
emergent behaviors of whole systems. This led him to re-imagine a big picture in
which our species is situated within the full continuum of creation.
BuckyBall Honors Paradigm Definers
The Buckminster Fuller Institute awarded the 5th Annual BF Challenge award and $100,000 to Seattle NGO Living Building Challenge for top "environmental performance in the built environment."
Universal Dome Delivery
Astronomers have identified hollow spheres of carbon, or buckyballs, in deep space.
Dymaxion Phoenix
Before Toyota, before Honda, and long, long before General Motors, R.
Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller made the most fuel-efficient car on the road.