Will Trees That Glow Light Our Streets One Day?
It’s one of many recent luminant innovations, such as glow-in-the-dark sidewalks and roads fit for Tron, that are trying to disrupt the way we light our world at night.
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.
The Post-Capitalist City of Your Dreams
A design contest fit for 2012: best vision for a post-capitalist city wins.
Mobility-on-Demand
A network of fold-able scooters and tiny electric cars wins the second annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
Disconnecting the Dots
We drive cars to the gym to run miles on a treadmill. Is the alienation we feel from our technological society due to a disconnect between physical goals and tech’s “help” in easing our workload?
Sustainability: The Five Core Principles
The increasing popularity for "sustainability" has led to growing ambiguity about the concept. The set of five Sustainability Principles proposed here, inspired by the work of Buckminster Fuller, is offered to restore some rigor to our thinking in this vital area.
Don’t Fight Forces, Use Them! : The Integrity of Tension in Science and Architecture
What do Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes and the human body have in common? Both speak to the ingenuity of self-assembling structures and their methods of maintaining stability; when you use forces, you don't need to fight them.
Animal Architecture: Buckminster Fuller’s Tensegrity
Buckminster Fuller coined the term "tensegrity" to describe the decentralized tension that enabled him to build his famous geodesic domes. But tensegrity structures are not just archtectural forms, they are found in carbon atoms, water molecules, …
