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Mobility-on-Demand

Zachary Koval
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A network of fold-able scooters and tiny electric cars wins the second annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge.

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Disconnecting the Dots

Roy Christopher
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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?

 

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Biomimicry: Designing with Nature

Gil Friend
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Industrial designs that consider and emulate nature are more likely to succeed, because they use design principles tested and refined in evolutionary time, and they use materials that renew, replenish, and support life's cycles. (more)

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Sustainability: The Five Core Principles

Michael Ben-Eli
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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. (more)

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Don't Fight Forces, Use Them! : The Integrity of Tension in Science and Architecture

Renee Verdier
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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. (more)

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Animal Architecture: Buckminster Fuller's Tensegrity

Renee Verdier
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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, proteins, viruses, cells, tissues, and animals. (more)

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