Buckminster Fuller, during his 50-year experiment in what type of contribution a lone individual could make on behalf of all humanity, pioneered the concept of comprehensive anticipatory design science that would produce livingry, the "weapons" for life instead of war, in order to support all the planet's people in a dignified and regenerative condition that would allow the unique talents of human beings to flower.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute is carrying on his legacy through initiatives and making the resources he pioneered widely accessible to the world's people. 

Design Science News, in their words, "brings you news from around the world related to humanity’s option for success and comprehensive design science. It also features updates from BFI and periodic special offers for our members."

Check it out, support the Institute (www.bfi.org), for provocative ideas, useful resources, pioneering initiatives from the legacy of the grandfather of sustainability from a whole systems understanding and critical path approach.

Contents of Design Science News Vol. 8 No. 10 include:

1.  The Buckminster Fuller Challenge - Catalyzing the vanguard of a design science revolution - they have received 250 entries to first international design science competition for $100,000 to a single winning solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth’s ecological integrity.  ease, please visit the Challenge website.

2.  Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi on view at The Henry Ford Museum (For more information, visit the Henry Ford Museum website)

3.  Trenda & Perspectives - Power polymer fuel solar cell advances.  Source: Design News)

4. Pollution-busting plants - (Source: Scientific American)

5. Putting smart design where it is needed most - an interview with Cameron Sinclair - Co-founder of the charitable organization Architecture for Humanity, re-building broken communities by promoting innovative and sustainable architecture and design. With the signature line “Design like you give a damn,” Architecture for Humanity creates opportunities for architects around the world to make a difference. Winner of last year’s esteemed TED prize, which honors visionaries who inspire others to do great things for the world.  Check out this video interview with Sinclair, from PBS’s Wired Science.

6.  Video from 2005 "Synergetics in the Arts Symposium" now online.  Watch the video (10mb)