Buckminster Fuller Symposium
Friday, September 12 - Saturday, September 13
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, at Astor Place
Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences. This symposium takes its cue from Fuller's dictum, "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment," and explores the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller's ideas and projects into the 21st century.
This symposium will run in conjunction with the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 26 - September 21, 2008. It is co-sponsored by The Architectural League of New York and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union. Full details available here: http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/events.jsp
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Bucky's work is still inspiring. I was humbled when I learned that my clever observations of the iconography of the future were a direct result of the geometry he invented.
I wrote about it at
http://dougist.com/index.php?p=10
and
http://dougist.com/index.php?p=11
Hope you stop by
Doug
www.dougist.com
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