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BFI seeks to further Fuller’s work by inspiring and supporting a new generation of design science pioneers.

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BFI seeks to expose today’s leaders to the conceptual models and tools necessary to design a future that works for 100% of life, without ecological offense.
Cooperating Manual for Spaceship Earth
The Co-Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth is a doers manual. A comprehensive and creatively taxonomized wiki cataloguing our collective intelligence around societal transformation toward cooperation.

Trimtab Space Camp
In an ever-shifting world, we find ourselves in a time of severe challenges and changes.

Regenerosity
As climate breakdown and interdependent social, ecological, and economic crises accelerate, regenerative projects that utilize principles and patterns of nature are emerging around the world.

Design Science Studio
A (r)Evolutionary incubator for ART inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life


Buckminster Fuller
Hailed as “one of the greatest minds of our times,” R. Buckminster Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world’s problems.

Geodesic Domes
The geodesic dome was the result of Fuller’s revolutionary discoveries about balancing compression and tension forces in building.

The Fuller Challenge
A comprehensive history of the $100,000 prize program and a curated ‘best of’ entries archive.

Fiscal Sponsorship
BFI supports and incubates small independent projects and programs that face these funding restrictions.
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Global underwater restoration capacity is not able to keep pace with the rate of loss of the foundational species in ocean ecosystems. Coral is being lost at an average rate of over 1 hectare per minute, about 1 …

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BFI is dedicated to the realization of R. Buckminster Fuller’s vision of a world that works for 100% of humanity.
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