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.
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, were sold from under their feet, so to
speak, as a consequence of The Louisiana Purchase; which [IT]self was a
consequence of the Church of Rome perverted mindset, of those nations who
subscribed to the very concept of THE INQUISITION; and all because Napoleon
wanted to consolidate his resources so that he could focus on conquering
ENGLAND, as William, Duke of Normandy had done seven centuries before.
An attitude I would venture to suggest, not dissimilar to the arrogant one that
President Macron has adopted, in the face of the democratically decided will of
the peoples of the UK, to leave the European Union. So [IT] was, in the belief that he lacked the troops and materials to wage an
effective war, that The French General chose to sell France's land to raise the
necessary funds, by rejecting America's proposal to purchase New Orleans and
choosing instead to offer the entirety of France's North American possessions
as The Louisiana Purchase.
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, they are not simply legalising their
sexual relationship – a step which few couples might think
necessary given the relaxed mores of contemporary society.
They are making a public declaration of their commitment
to one another which joins their two families. [IT] IS the
interconnecting network of all those conjoined families
that constitutes a community. Marriage is not simply a
testament to the present feelings of a man and a woman
but to their readiness to accept responsibility for the
future. So the stability of a long-standing marriage can
offer emotional security not only to the first generation
of children it produces, but to grandchildren, extended
family and friends.
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