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DESIGN SCIENCE 101 – Comprehensive, Anticipatory
Design Science: A Framework for Change
Sustainability: The Five Core Principles
Places to Intervene in a System
Design as Savior, Designer As Slave
Environmental Design Science Primer
Continue reading “BUCKY 2.0: Design Science (Buckminster Fuller Institute)”
The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies. The epidemic of organizational disillusionment goes way beyond Corporate America-teachers, doctors, and nurses are leaving their professions in record numbers because the way we run schools and hospitals kills their vocation. Government agencies and nonprofits have a noble purpose, but working for these entities often feels soulless and lifeless just the same. All these organizations suffer from power games played at the top and powerlessness at lower levels, from infighting and bureaucracy, from endless meetings and a seemingly never-ending succession of change and cost-cutting programs.
Deep inside, we long for soulful workplaces, for authenticity, community, passion, and purpose. The solution, according to many progressive scholars, lies with more enlightened management. But reality shows that this is not enough. In most cases, the system beats the individual-when managers or leaders go through an inner transformation, they end up leaving their organizations because they no longer feel like putting up with a place that is inhospitable to the deeper longings of their soul.
Twitter Evolutions: The Changing Role of Social Media in War and Protest
In this half-day conference, the U.S. Institute of Peace and the George Washington Universityās Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication will host two panels of experts on social mediaās role in political protest and civil war across the Middle East and Europe as part of a discussion on the latest Blogs and Bullets report: Syriaās Socially Mediated War.
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Washington, DC
R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe: Solo drama. Written and directed by D.W. Jacobs. Through Feb. 23. $29-$74. San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. (408) 367-7255. www.sjrep.com.
It takes a certain kind of genius to make genius entertaining, and that's what Ron Campbell does in D.W. Jacobs' “R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe” for nearly 2 1/2Ā hours.
Fuller as played by Campbell is still getting excited over icosahedrons and vector equilibrium and “ephemeralization” (doing more and more with less and less), much the way he did when we first encountered him in this beguiling solo drama 14 years ago in San Francisco. Now the show is at San Jose Repertory Theatre in the heart of Silicon Valley to preach Fuller's gospel of saving his “SpaceshipĀ Earth.”
Campbell renders Fuller's complex ideas clear and compelling, often imbued with the touch of a poet. There are moments when he demonstrates the elegance of a dancer and the precision movement of a mime, but just as often the lanky Bucky, as he was known as, is gangly and awkward. Campbell dazzled 14 years ago, and if anything, he seems to feel it even more deeply to the extent that we can almost feel BuckyĀ thinking.
Sometimes watching Campbell move and listening to him talk brings to mind Jimmy Stewart crossed with Albert Einstein (who was apparently a fan of Fuller's). What really comes through in Campbell's Bucky, though, is grace and wonder and the integrity of originalĀ thought.
Combining the life, writing and work of Fuller – who died in 1983 at age 87 a forward-thinking inventor, philosopher, architect and all-around smart guy – writer-director Jacobs' “History” works as a lecture demonstration of Fuller's extraordinary mind as well as a theatrical examination of genius devoted to practical use and the serving ofĀ others.
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