I developed this course to teach and explore the concepts and ideas of SYNERGETICS, the energetic geometry advanced by the revolutionary thinker R. Buckminster Fuller.

For those who are unfamiliar with Bucky, as all his friends called him, it is difficult to summarize his incredible life and works. Long before the rest of the world began talking about globalization, Bucky was talking about "Spaceship Earth." Often described as a self-taught architect, inventor, philosopher, genius and "the Lenardo DaVinci of our time." Bucky always insisted that he was simply "an average human" that set out to discover how our universe worked.

Bucky spent his life exploring and explaining the way nature builds. Inspired by the many recurring patterns he observed in nature, he felt intuitively that there must be certain generalized principles that governed the way the universe operated. He set out to discover and employ these principles to "help make all of humanity a success."

For the first half of his life, he was considered to be a crackpot and most people did not take him seriously. Undeterred, Bucky kept to his mission and turned out new inventions, one after the next, from his Dymaxion House, a mass productible home he developed in the 1920's to his three-wheeled, futuristic Dymaxion Car in the 1930's. His persistent investigations eventually led him to the development of an "energetic geometry," which led to the discovery of the geodesic dome, the invention that made him famous around the world and elegantly demonstrates many of the synergetic principles he had uncovered.

Enjoy,

Kurt Przybilla
Inventor of TETRA TOPS.

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