BFI Spans the Globe Seeking Challenge Contenders

BFI and Dror Studios's gathering of designers across disciplines was typical of the outreach BFI conducted this fall in search of contenders to win the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Events spanned the country and the globe via web-convened Q&A sessions with our Challenge review team.

Designer Dror Benshetrit, 2010 BFI Challenge Fellows, Ashley Thorfinnson and Sahar Ghaheri, 2009 BFI jurors Bill Browning and Hillary Brown, were on hand to discuss what designers are doing to address business-as-usual approaches with whole-systems design thinking in order to create a new design science practice engaged in ecological and socially-responsible solutions. The Buckminster Fuller Challenge criteria was used as the orientating framework for the dialogue. The event took place on October, 12, 2011, in New York City.

This design salon was part of a Fall series of outreach and networking events BFI led or participated in, leading up to the October 24, 2011 deadline for the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. To learn who entered this cycle and the review process go here: 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Review Process

Event List
9/7-9/9 SOCAP11
9/12 Pencha Kucha NYC
9/13 Green Drinks NYC
9/14 DesigNYC
9/19 2011 Social Good Summit, NYC
9/21 UN Habitat, special meeting on Urban Solutions, hosted by Project for Public Spaces
9/23 Creative Time Summit

9/25-10/1 week-long Online Q&A session in partnership with Local Solutions Forum
9/28- Online Q&A session with review team members
10/5- Online Q&A session with review team members

10/8 Designing Hope Pop-up Store, BFI Fellows Project
10/12 Dror Studio CADS Design Salon/Mixer, New York
10/13 The HUB Q&A session, San Francisco
10/14-10/16- Bioneers, Challenge Panel and Dicussion
10/19- SIUC Sustainability Lecture, Carbondale, IL