I'm about to delve in to college life but want walk away from it with abilities and knowledge to change the world - Bucky style.
As I assume, most people who read this are through with college - if not involved with its perpetuation - If you were to return to university for the first time again, what would you do different? Where would you focus your efforts? What subjects would you place first and last on your list?

What direction would you take to give the most by following Fuller's footsteps?

I'm very intrigued to read the responses, if any.

Thanks,
-DC

Not knowing exactly what "Design Science" is, I contend Bucky's Floating Breakwater - U.S. PATENT - 4,136,994 - has more potential NOW than it did in 1977. Is anyone prepared to produced one of these things? We have a location on Narragansett Bay in Providence, RI, that could definitely benefit from the installation of this technology. Please visit us at www.savebay.org to find out more. Very truly to yours, Michael Russo, Save the Bay Facilites Manager

Adrian Rossiter writes:

"Here are some animations showing a symmetric closing down of
the edges of a truncated cube. First O symmetry, showing
strings across alternate vertices and then showing the hull,
and then Th symmetry (4-5Mb)

antiprism animation 1

antiprism animation 2

antiprism animation 3

antiprism animation 4

Can't seem to find an appropriate forum for this question but, this may work.

Youtube is as good a place as any to archive design science videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0hkz9b9MbQ

CREATING A PREFERRED STATE

First I'd like to express my appreciation for all the contributors to the WPVM, Chautauqua Radio interviews and essays in the wonderfully long dedication to Bucky Fuller. It was wonderful to hear everyone talk about his Anticipatory Design Science and memories of his darling personality. I especially like the idea of creating a preferred state through education and the intuitive method from the Design Science Lab. Empowering children with Bucky's map, too, is definitely a worthwhile endeavor.

This is a link to many photos of the snec Oswego 2006 workshop thanks to Rupert Ravens.

http://homepage.mac.com/rupert/SNEC/PhotoAlbum160.html

SNEC's address again is:

http://synergeticists.org/

Now available! It sounds like a great place to learn about design science.

Fuller Collection digitized, available online through library
July 20, 2006
By Hunter Barns

"Over 380 hours of rare lectures and public talks by the late inventor R. Buckminster Fuller can now be downloaded through Stanford University Libraries. The recently debuting, fully digitized multimedia archive features Fuller's work, made popular during the 1960s and 1970s.

Did anyone here attend this?
I really wanted too, but wasn't able because it was already filled by the time I applied.
If you went, how was it?
What made you decide to do it in the first place?