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Comment on: Blog Post 'FREESPACE 4D': describe the tetrahedron as the simplest structural system with insideness and outsideness, and it was his most important building block, the form on which the rest of synergetic geometry hinged. The tetrahedron, with its four faces and four vertexes, was the three-dimensional form that could contain the least volume. It was the simplest “system” containing a set of relationships. Regardless of the earlier references to the family of regular polyhedra and their significance in life’s architecture on a moving, spherical earth, humans had latched onto the cube as the main building block of mathematics. For Fuller, the 90 degree angles of the cube were a side effect or “precessional effect” of various processes in a universe of angles, curves and arcs. His cube was inscribed by the duotet, two interpenetrating tetrahedra whose eight outer points met cube’s eight vertices and gave it an inherent stability. Four hundred years after Durer and Kepler, Buckminster Fuller continued a similar process of experimental observation of structure in three dimensions. Fuller’s approach to design was influenced by his Navy experience. During a long introduction to the design of ships on the sea, Fuller paid attention to designs which contained new angles and curves in order to navigate through a continually shifting, fluid medium. In his earliest writing, a 1928 document titled “Lightful Housing,” he introduced a “Theory of the Spheres.” In this paper he contended, “all matter in unforced state is spheroidal not cubistic, and these spheres are expanding for the life of their existence at a fixed rate.”15 A very different version of this essay appeared in Fuller’s self-published 1928 book titled “4-D Timelock.” For the rest of his life he unraveled this way of looking at the earth from a spherical perspective. Finally in 1975 and 1979 respectively, Fuller released Synergetics and Synergetics 2 presenting the complete system of dynamic geometry from which he derived the geodesic dome, his icosahedral map and his octet truss building system. http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/buckminster-fuller-wrote-over-twenty-books…; Added by Michael Grove at 18:03 on June 26, 2023

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Comment on: Blog Post 'THE LANDSCAPE OF DESIGN TODAY': h judges praising it as “inspiring” and “socially aware”. It rewards years of significant upheaval for the museum, founded three decades ago by Sir Terence Conran. In 2016 it moved west from its beautiful but too small premises near Tower Bridge, in what used to be a banana-ripening warehouse, to the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington. The move gave it three times more space and came with an ambition to do “what Tate Modern did for contemporary art, for design”. Alice Black, the museum’s co-director, said being named European museum of the year was a remarkable achievement, which celebrated its “common European future”. …; Added by Michael Grove at 14:34 on February 2, 2020

Comment on: Blog Post 'HAVING AT FIRST [BE]COME POTENTIALLY AWARE ...': e under-ground-floor space available • but finally decided on the procurement & self installation of a Scandinavian wood burning boiler system and a Jotul wood burner for the main living area, because of the local access to unlimited felled & dried timber at the time. The heat loss design that I calculated for the 1841 main school building, which was half open to the roof, meant that an off-the-shelf heating installer didn't have a clue as to how to complete the job. The Runtalrad modular, multiple-tube, horizontal and vertical panels were ideal for the task at hand as they provided exactly matched outputs for situations with limited wall space availability. Vertical panels in the study, hall and upstairs landing, and low level horizontal panels below the low-down windowsills, in the living-room and bedrooms. All of this space heating was then complimented with a Jotul #7 heat circulating wood-burner arrangement which could generated up to 13 Kw of output.ps You can see the boiler & Wood Store in the bottom left-hand picture of this collage .... …; Added by Michael Grove at 11:21 on April 10, 2023

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Photo: LISTEN to the CHILDREN: G VALUES, RESPECT FOR GAIA and EVER AFTER THINKING as espoused in ... A handbook for creating the world that we want ! What WE CAN BE - WE MUST BE zaadzsters of THE planet UNITE ALL hail ! to Jon Symes, Phil Turner and particularly Ron Monnier for creating this superb "centre-piece" image for the children. . Michael : catalyst-producer print | permalink | delete 16 minutes later Michael said The problems we face are rooted in the way we LIVE and the way we THINK, so these are what must change. A new, higher level of thinking will usher in a new way of living, in which social justice and environmental sustainability are enshrined and where there is no concept of exploiting other people or damaging our home, Planet Earth. WE need every ounce of our ingenuity, determination &resolve right now to build this future. Your Planet Needs You - Introduction . Michael : catalyst-producer print | permalink | delete 3 months later Michael said In the context of “two nations POTENTIALLY divided by the same language” … LISTEN to “THE View” of these children … and having LISTENED to the children ... LET US ALL BE PART of SOMETHING BETTER Michael : catalyst-producer print | permalink | delete about 1 year later Michael said Zaadzsters_et_al@gaia UNITE … print | permalink | delete about 1 year later KreaShine! said Patience is a virtue :) Love IS action :) I have the sail ready… Michael : catalyst-producer print | permalink | delete about 1 year later Michael said We kan kreate a kickin' kosmic kidz klub of kindness…for ALL who care :) INDEED WE kan j : awaken2love print | permalink | delete about 1 year later j said yes, let's listen to the children… Leave Your Wise and Insightful Comment…; Added by Michael Grove at 18:15 on March 23, 2010

Photo: Guanyin Bodhisattva: as used for the cover art of the Shambhala Classic Edition of THE Way of THE Bodhisattva. THE seed of ZEN travelled from INDIA to CHINA and thence to JAPAN …. and thence THIS day of rememberance THRU' the USA to the UK … the message of the lotus has been received ! THE PRACTICE of ACTION … indeed INSIGHT arising ... as a SENSE of SELF as Merchants of LOVE ... .…; Added by Michael Grove at 18:16 on March 23, 2010

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