Modern Heroes: Buckminster Fuller

To many R. Buckminster Fuller’s legacy will live on in the molecule like, geodesic architecture for which he had the term ‘Dymaxion’ created; ‘Dymaxion’ being an abbreviation of ‘dynamic maximum tension’ and invented for ‘Bucky’ by advertising copy wiz, Waldo Warren [wikipedia.org]. You may prefer, as we do, the various publications Buckminster Fuller created and/or helped produce, around 28 of them, many of which are now out of print. The most well known has to be ‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’ [bfi.org/422], Buckminster’s Opus to the idea that humans are passengers aboard a shape in space that we call ‘the Earth’ and opening up new perspectives on the human existance in real, practical but always entertaining terms. You could visit Alibris if you’d like to check some of them out [alibris.co.uk] or drop by the Buckminster Fuller Institute offical bookstore for recently published titles [bfi.easystorecreator.com]. We recommend the more graphically adventurous titles such as ‘I seem to a Verb’ produced with ‘The Medium is the Massage’ [wikipedia.org] graphic designer, Quentin Fiore.The Buckminster Fuller Institute is also seeking to build on Buckminster Fuller’s legacy by investigating and expanding on the many ideas he developed. For a good example of this visit the ‘Who is Buckminster Fuller?’ section of the BFI website [bfi.org/who_is_buckminster_fuller] where members have been contributing to a profile of the man fragment by fragment.