Science and Technology Postings

Fuller Challenge receives record number of entries for 10th anniversary
Friday, 5 May 2017


The 2017 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, now in its tenth year, received a record number of entries. To select a winner of the $100,000 grand prize, the jury will review more than 460 submissions.

Enter the 2017 Fuller Challenge
Monday, 27 February 2017

There are just a few weeks left to enter the 2017 Fuller Challenge! The final deadline is Friday, March 31st at 5pm ET.

WHAT IS THE FULLER CHALLENGE?

Meat, Dairy, Wool and Leather Can Bring Ecosystems into Balance
Monday, 27 February 2017

The Savory Institute, a Buckminster Fuller Challenge winner, has launched a four-part series that tells the stories of 25 of their practitioners on 3 continents.

Biomimicry Immersive: Discover Nature’s Genius in California
Monday, 27 February 2017

Biomimicry 3.8 is offering a five-day immersive tour through giant redwoods, oak woodlands and intertidal zones of California. Explore the interlinked ecosystems and learn how to bring nature’s design to your own work.

Planet:Tech at Collision Conference
Monday, 27 February 2017

Planet:tech will be a global meeting place for technology and environment. It is a new conference at Collision, a massive 20,000 person technology conference with 13 sub-conferences in New Orleans, between the two weekends of Jazz Fest. Participants come from over 100 countries.

From Fabricated to Farmed, Constructed to Grown, Isolated to Connected...
Monday, 27 February 2017

Maurice Conti, a designer and futurist from Autodesk, has given a TED talk suggesting that a new partnership among technology applications, principles of nature, and human ingenuity is shaping our world, enabling it to move from fabricated to farmed, constructed to grown, isolated to connected, extracted to aggregated, and from obedience to autonomy.

The Origami Revolution
Monday, 27 February 2017

NOVA released a fascinating hour-long program on the power and uses of origami. For example, the principles of ancient paper folding practice are used today for design of satellites and micro robots as well as in developing new medicines. The show explored how the rules of origami follow those in nature as in how leaves grow and how insects fly.

A New Water Paradigm
Monday, 27 February 2017

Human activities and designs are radically re-shaping ecological cycles. So it's no surprise that, water - not just carbon - is increasingly the focus of many large-scale restoration, regeneration, and landscape management efforts.

From Pythagora to Pizza
Saturday, 28 January 2017

For those Synergetics fans in the audience, Andy Thomson writes a piece on “The fact that we have inherited so many unquestioned fundamentals, such as the base ten number system, the x,y,z cubic Cartesian spatial grid, 360 degrees in a circle, etc. was not lost on Fuller.

Deep Time Walk
Thursday, 26 January 2017

This phone application will take you on a 4.6km narrated walk through 4.6 billion years of the earth’s history, with each meter representing one million years.