... of an almost abandoned south west facing slope in Swindon, England in response to the Transition Towns initiative of Rob Hopkins, in the context of the fact that OUR DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree ... the tree breathes what we exhale ... when the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales ... so we have common destiny with the tree ... as it communicates with other trees beneath our feet ...

FROM THIS, looking west in the autumn of 2005 - top terrace fruit trees to the north, Scottish raspberries and asparagus - thinking about all things organic, no-dig systems, permaculture, forest-gardening etc.

TO THIS in 2007

TO THIS ... in 2013…

   THIS STATEMENT from Leonardo da Vinci, was one which he discussed

   all of his life with his best friend Niccolò Machiavelli, who no doubt as a result,

    accordingly wrote the following in his epic The Prince: 



   ”There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of

    success, nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order

    of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old

    order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit

    by the new order. This quality of lukewarmness arises partly…

  PAST•PRESENT•FUTURE• as ONE • NOW

  by transforming THE ART of the POSSIBLE

  into THE ART  of  the  REALITY of IDEAS

   Fuller's concern with fine-tuning communication,

   developing and using words that are consistent with

   scientific reality, is one facet of the role of language

   with respect to synergetics  and THERE IS NO BETTER

   PLACE IN CYBERSPACE TO REFLECT on the IDEAS of…

   REQUIRES THE IMPLEMENTATION of an IDEA whose TIME HAS COME

   ... THE DEVELOPMENT of an [IDEA] from DESIGNER'S SATURDAY to THE REALITY of

  Buckminster Fuller N☯️W • just ONE of the many keys to understanding which requires

  the need to acknowledge the concept of ...



  SEEKING LESS AND LESS ... ABOUT MORE AND MORE

  NOT MORE AND MORE ... ABOUT LESS AND LESS

    ... during this VERY…

  From DESIGNERS SATURDAY to DESIGN as A MASS OCCUPATION ?

  Review: The Language of Things by Deyan Sudjic

 Since every single thing we use has been designed, what is a

Fuller's concern with fine-tuning communication, developing and using words that are consistent with scientific reality, is one facet of the role of language with respect to synergetics. Another deals with the difficulty of describing visual and structural patterns. Anyone who has tried to describe an object over the telephone is well aware of the problems involved; there seems to be a shortage of functional words. The temptation to use your hands is irresistible, despite the futility. This scarcity of linguistic aids is especially severe for non-cubical structures, which characterise most of nature. That a language of pattern and structure is not widely accessible indicates that humanity's understanding of such phenomena is similarly underdeveloped. We thus join forces with Fuller in an investigation of this neglected field, and in so doing we become more and more aware of the rich complexity of the order inherent in space. Along the way, we are introduced to some new terminology that includes the lesser-known language of geometry as well as some words invented by Fuller. More information—useful only, it is clear,…

  ...of Buckminster Fuller's IDEA of a sustainable future for

  human[KIND] as custodians of ALL the passengers of 

  Spaceship Earth, was first established as part and parcel

  of my own • MINDSIGHT during my spare time whilst I  

  was studying at Grammar School, when I was constructing

  a model of the Vickers Wellington, which because of its

  geodesic design and construction, survived more sorties

  during WWII than any…

   “DARE TO BE NAÏVE” • R. Buckminster Fuller

    Fuller's CRITICAL PATH to the application  of the 

    theory of that very technology  for the purposes of a

    "rite of passage to 4D", requires THE SWITCH from

    Gregorian-calendar based TIME to a TIME [scale]

    based on the timing of universal natural processes,

    such that HumanKIND can re-connect with the

    4D[TIME] heart-beat of NATURE, to then maximise

    access to the collective abundance of energy that…

"WITHOUT leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose  

 the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, [IS]  

 a form of planning"

                                                                                                                       Gloria Steinem



 

 MINDFULNESS is the art of paying attention to the

 details of the present moment without judgement.

 "Imagination alone can give us a vision of the future."

 "…