MIT's Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems concepts won this year's $100,000 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual contest that asks entrants to create designs with maximum social impact.
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The visionary architect Buckminster Fuller believed that a single design could save the world. That ethos is being carried forward by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which every year holds a contest to create a design with maximum ...READ MORE›
"Dare to be naïve" -- Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) Inventor, designer, and futurist
I'm currently helping a client improve marketing and customer service business processes. Among other methods, we're gathering internal and ...READ MORE›
Today would have been Buckminster Fuller's 110th birthday. A tip of the Fast Company hat to the iconoclastic inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, and poet!
Why Great Customer Experiences Start with Great Design: RealTime ...READ MORE›
For those times when a tent or trailer just won't cut it, consider the Intershelter, a Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome made of a "a high-tech aerospace composite material" that has the strength of a permanent ...READ MORE›
Recently, I was filling up my Beetle and the guy at the next pump commented that I must get great gas mileage. "It gets high 20s on the highway if I'm lucky." I said, rather unenthused.
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If you're into poppy dance music, you've probably heard a track or two from the loopy songstress who goes by the stagename Lady GaGa. But among fans, she's at least as famous for her goofy outfits, which make Bjork ...READ MORE›
Can you name four magnificent events in your life which came about because of perfect planning? Sure, there was the vacation in '99. Then the move from… oh, scratch that. Even if I count a house we built, which was well-planned but ...READ MORE›
Yeah, here we go again: gas gets expensive, and people who should know better start talking about nuclear.
If ever there was a really dumb idea, splitting atoms to generate electircity is it. This is something I know about: ...READ MORE›
First Person Eye On Event Coverage Conflux 08
Cartography Aids Social Change NYC
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By Donald Schwartz, FC Technology Moderator
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I started this Facebook page last month, and was noticing today that I've posted more than 20 great links already.I've been posting links almost every day, and all of them are open to your comments, reactions, and feedback. Just visit ...READ MORE›
Beyond its pop art textiles by Marimekko, Artek furniture, and Nokia's mobile phones, Finland as a whole is a hotbed of innovation, home to highly-educated workers, technologically-advanced consumers and ...READ MORE›
No word yet about this building's ability to block electromagnetic waves, but even the most paranoid conspiracy theorist will be able to hang his hat in of these eight kooky work cabins by British architect Thomas Heatherwick. ...READ MORE›
How do we make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone? This is a question Buckminster Fuller posed to the world in ...READ MORE›
With pavilions mired in budget controversies, laughable design, and, yes, circus clowns, the US and Canada are set to be the embarrassments of Shanghai 2010.READ MORE›
City dwellers use less energy and more public transportation than their rural counterparts, but urban landscapes often lack localized food production. Vincent Callebaut Architectures attempts to remedy that with its Dragonfly ...READ MORE›
Adrian Caddy
Adrian Caddy is the creative director of Imagination, a multidisciplinary design company with offices in London, New York, and Hong Kong.
Wrote about: Designing a Classroom That Works
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If you were in the market for an introduction to the New Urbanism -- what is it for? what is it against? what is it about, really? -- your choices on the opening day of the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU 18) were either a ...READ MORE›
Rolf Fehlbaum, CEO of Vitra, really cares about chairs. His company is a celebration of what to some is the most mundane object in the office -- but to him is a source of passion.READ MORE›
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