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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. (more)

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?

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)

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)

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)