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MIT's Mobility-on-Demand Wins Buckminster Fuller Challenge

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon May 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM

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. This ...READ»

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Nine Ideas to Save the World, Inspired by Buckminster Fuller [UPDATED]

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 9:45 AM

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»

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Leading Ideas: Dare to Be Naïve

Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Feb 7, 2006 at 2:50 PM

"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»

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Going to the Bucky Ball

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 87
Tue Jul 12, 2005 at 4:05 PM

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»

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Intershelter Portable Geodesic Dome Provides Disaster Relief

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 83
Wed Mar 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM

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»

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Fuel Economy?

BY David-Henry Oliver
Relevancy Score: 70
Mon Aug 25, 2008 at 1:46 AM

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. But he was impressed. ...READ»

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Lady Gaga: Design Groupie in Disguise

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 68
Fri Aug 7, 2009 at 10:55 AM

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»

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A Different Approach to Planning

Relevancy Score: 54
Sat Feb 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM

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»

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Buckminster Fuller Still Relevant in Today's Energy Crisis--Nukes are Not

BY Shel Horowitz
Relevancy Score: 52
Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 5:57 PM

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»

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First Person Eye On Event Coverage Conflux 08

BY Donald Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 51
Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 11:17 PM

First Person Eye On Event Coverage Conflux 08 Cartography Aids Social Change NYC Regina Debatty Moderator By Donald Schwartz, FC Technology Moderator Author’s Note: This story is a work in progress covering the ...READ»

FINLAND | Comment

Helsinki Design Lab 2010: A Summit Built on History, Focused on Solutions

BY Alissa Walker
Relevancy Score: 44
Thu Apr 9, 2009 at 5:56 PM

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»

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Ditch the Tin Foil Hat, Try This Tin Foil Building Instead

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 38
Thu May 21, 2009 at 10:12 AM

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»

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Sharing Green Practices Among Industry Leaders will Advance Corporations

BY Lewis Perkins
Relevancy Score: 29
Fri Dec 26, 2008 at 11:59 AM

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»

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Designing a Classroom That Works

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 26
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

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 Is learning: Caddy is building a ...READ»

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Dragonfly Vertical Farm Concept Rethinks Urban Food Production for New York

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 26
Mon May 18, 2009 at 3:12 PM

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»

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Former Nigerian Capital Gets Eco-City

BY Kelsey Keith
Relevancy Score: 24
Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM

A proposed energy-efficient satellite village uses the lagoon for cooling in Lagos, Africa's second largest city. READ»

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A Bigger Design Tent

BY Mark Dziersk
Relevancy Score: 23
Thu Jan 8, 2009 at 1:10 PM

More minds participating and visualizing through sketching is a new thinking method for achieving cross functional creative results.READ»

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The Man Who Loved Chairs

BY Jill Rosenfeld
Relevancy Score: 16
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:21 AM

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»

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