Presented by the Design Science Studio at the Buckminster Fuller Institute in partnership with habRitual.

Saturday, December 19th

RSVP: Design Science Salon: Dissolve & Bloom

Have you heard? Everything is changing and there is no turning back. As we dive deep, the idea of separation from Nature evaporates. Nothing is destroyed, just transformed. Allow yourself to dissolve and bloom, like the mycelial interconnected networks sporing out the process of permanent transformation. The metamorphosis has commenced, and as our friend Bucky said well, “there is nothing in the caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”

We invite you to journey with…

I was relating the dance of life between spirit and form to the jitterbug that we have been learning about from the book club reading through A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller by Amy Edmondson. I have associated the three elementary forms of the Bauhaus, the blue circle, yellow triangle, and red square, to the design process: imagine, design, and build. Design sits in the gap between vision (imagination) and reality (architecture). In Buckminster Fuller’s understanding, the triangle is the metaphysical concept that we apply to our understanding of three-dimensional geometry and four-dimensional process, with the…

Hello Brad,

We have never met. I know of you only as my representative as a Member of the Parliament of Canada for the electoral district of Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon.

You have been voted by the majority in our electoral district. You claim to be working for me, but I have my doubts.

You don’t work for me, Brad. I voted for someone else. But that was a long shot in this particular riding. I expect you work for people who agree with you, as is the habit of those who share your conservative perspective.

(By the way, I could…

Canada, as a nation, likes to represent itself as morally superior to the United States of America. However, the nation has been writing its own history by erasing the history of the people who have lived on Turtle Island for thousands of years previous to settler colonization. Those stories that we have told ourselves about who we are have been challenged by the First Nations who have survived the Canadian genocide. The cognitive dissonance created by government and corporate media in contrast to the voices of those marginalized by the social, economic, and political systems of the Crown and the…

A transcript of The RobCast Episode 261: Building a New House with Don Golden.

Rob Bell: Okay, so it’s like the early aughts. It’s like 2001 ish. And what was happening is lots of people were talking about the HIV AIDS crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. And I would read these articles about the numbers. It was almost like the data or the statistics were like, I couldn’t fathom this level of devastation, because that just wouldn’t happen in America, let’s be honest. So I was like, early 30s. I’m a pastor, trying to do good work but also like there’s…

The conversation about design is evolving as the scope of design expands from physical artifacts to living systems. Increasingly, we are exploring ideas about organizational transformation and social change. In other words, we are expanding the scope of design from the physical to the metaphysical: to the social, the economic, and the political. These are issues of connection, capacity, and power.

Design as a Catalyst for Change

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The Design Challenge

The challenge, then, becomes more about how to understand the values, perceptions, and…

The conversation about design is evolving as the scope of design expands from physical artifacts to living systems. Increasingly, we are exploring ideas about organizational transformation and social change. In other words, we are expanding the scope of design from the physical to the metaphysical: to the social, the economic, and the political. These are issues of connection, capacity, and power.

Reinterpreting the Role of the Designer

Matthew Manos has been creating communities to explore design as a means of multiplying the impact of non-profit organizations through new models of innovation, collaboration, and generosity.

Service Design and Biophilia

Others are imagining the basis for a new aesthetic of design.

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I couldn’t sleep. Early in the morning of 19 November 2019, I engaged in a thought experiment, an empathy exercise to imagine what it might be like to read the Bible from a woman’s perspective. On 20 November 2019, I saw this message on Twitter.

You say that I must believe in the God of the Bible to avoid going to Hell for eternity, correct?

If this is the narrow door that I must enter, then I need answers to these questions.

If it is not okay to ask questions, why was it okay for Job?

If you don’t answer…