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Comment on: Blog Post 'THE FACEBOOK 4D STORY ...': is run by the Chartered Institute of Building. I have used my own best Eight of Twelve choice of these images, below, to illustrate ... E I G H T B U C K Y I D E A S T O S A V E T H E P L A N E T A N D Y O U R S A N I T Ythat Patricia Ravasio has published in her True Story • The Girl from Spaceship Earth • You’ll find the author's blog at BuckyIdeas.com. Please visit there to read about Buckminster Fuller's IDEAS for today and for news about upcoming events and books.FORM FOLLOWS IDEA examines the work and ideas of influential designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor. Their reflections and propositions provide a refreshing and provocative approach to design, touching on issues such as craftsmanship, modernism, and the role of nature and commercialism in design. Ball and Naylor's work explores ideas of space beyond the physical object. Their concern with cultural and social values is manifest in the form and (dis)function of their designs and appropriations of everyday objects, such as chairs, lights and shelving. FORM FOLLOWS IDEA features their approach to these objects through cultural, ecological and visual narratives. As such, their book provides a playful yet critical re-evaluation of familiar forms and typologies. ALL of which I would dedicate to my fleeting relationship with Eric R Kuhne and his LOVE of BOOKS and every[THING] related to the SPiRALogic • ART of the POSSIBLE "Rugged textured cable pipes ran over my head at a train station in New York, creating a trance-like, frightful pattern," says Gautam Kamat Bambolkar. "They ran from the edge of the entrance to an infinite end. It looked nothing less than a scary man-made cave." 1. Embrace abundance, not scarcity. Humans are falsely conditioned by the notion of scarcity promoted by Charles Darwin and Thomas Malthus. The idea of survival of the fittest sets up an us-versus-them mentality. If we believe there is not enough for all, overconsumption and greed are natural results. Only by embracing abundance and setting out to prove there is enough for all can we achieve Bucky’s overriding objective, “To make the world work for one hundred percent of all humanity in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological damage or harm to any individual.” In other words, whether we think we can or think we can’t, we are right. …; Added by Michael Grove at 11:18 on December 17, 2017

Comment on: Blog Post 'THROUGH [ART] ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE [nOw]': y Art of the Possible event in November 1990; and my subsequent encouragement through a string of other initiatives, for others to associate themselves with the very concept of Through [ART] ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE [NOW] • I have recently become a Synergy Member of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and been invited to get involved with the Trimtab Space Camp initiative • so having watched the Experiencial Space Research Lab piece and listened to David McConville's Gaian Systems video and the expanding worlds of Margullis and Lovelock, I would like to suggest from my own humble standpoint that THE VERY BEST VIDEO for all participants to watch urgently, if in[DEED] they haven't already done so, IS the film which I have described as "THE MOST EXPENSIVE EVER" because of the costs involved over decades to develop all of the equipment necessary and to launch it into space to enable the production of same • namely Earth From Space. <font size="3"><font size="3">&lt;font size="3"&gt;&amp;lt;font size="3"&amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;font size="3"&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;font size="3"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;font size="3"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;br /&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/font&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/font&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;/font&amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/font&amp;gt;&lt;/font&gt;</font></font> …; Added by Michael Grove at 8:16 on March 18, 2020

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