Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe - Whitney Museum

Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Utilizing his doing "more with less" credo, Fuller's designs endeavored to benefit the largest portion of humanity while consuming the minimum amount of the earth's resources. This video presents four examples of Fuller's integrated approach to the design and technology of housing, transportation, and cartography--the Dymaxion House, ca. 1930, Dymaxion Transport Vehicle, ca.1933 , Wichita House, ca. 1945, and The Fuller Projection Map, ca. 1943.

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[scubabelvoir]

I too was fortunate to attend a Fuller lecture in 1972 and participated, briefly in World Games. I've always been haunted by the feeling that all the answers are present, we choose, unfortunately, to ignore them.

[42flyingphish]

amazing ideas. THis man was brilliant and simply ingenius

[worryphree]

Buzzer! The earth is an OPEN system. Ask me how.

[fartdeath]

I am still in community college.."young and dumb", however I am in a renewable energy tech program. guide me? fund me? ask me questions? I could use so like minded HONEST support. How good can you be?

[fartdeath]

I AM THIS MAN'S REINCARNATION!!!!.all that I have learned in my humble little life in small time iowa and what few places I have traveled to have led me to a single conclusion. I am chasing this dream every waking second. This dream consists of every element of my morality and personality. I plan to change the world by embracing it. The biggest and most impossible of my ideas are centered in power generation, others, agriculture, and more still have geospatial relation. BTW my dad knew this man

[leifthor415]

As a student of Bucky Fuller, I can tell you Bucky would not agree with this narrator's monologue. My god who gave her this copy to read? Ew....Bucky was about abundance, and that we are not in a limited system, which was central to his message...Ephemeralization, doing more with less, or replacing "stuff" with "thought".

[YourHealthyPlanet]

@MrAlternativamente Hi, one quote that comes to mind is "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." R Buckminster Fuller At Your Healthy Planet.com we are doing just that based on many of 'Bucky's' philosophies and prediction of having everyone on-board planet Earth living ata very high standard of living and enjoying fully our beautiful planet.

[MrAlternativamente]

I can't remember a Fuller quotation that was in a room of this exhibition. It was about the necessity to destroy a system and build a completely new one, instead of reforming it. It was a sort of definition of a real revolutionary mind...Someone could help me? (forgive my english).

[MrAlternativamente]

I can't remember a Fuller quotation that was in a room of this exhibition. It was about the necessity to destroy a system and build a completely new one, instead of reforming it. It was a sort of definition of a real revolutionary mind...Someone could help me? (forgive my english).

[FractalBolt]

Thanks for the upload. I'm an architect and Füller's was a name that was thrown at us back in college but I had never been interested in him, until now.

What a wonderful and lucid mind. I graduated four years ago, but because of the way the job market's these days, I really haven't had much professional experience save for a couple of jobs. I'm going to study a Master's degree soon and this man has inspired me not just to continue my studies, but to try and do something. Thanks for the upload

[michad9for]

muy bueno!