Friday, September 19, 2008

Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science

This is what Buckminster Fuller called his problem solving approach for complex problems.  This approach, 

...combined an emphasis on individual initiative and integrity with whole systems thinking, scientific rigor and faithful reliance on nature's underlying principles. The designs he is best known for (the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion house, car, and map, and the global electric grid) were part of a visionary strategy to redesign the inter-related systems of shelter, transportation and energy.
The web site is one for an annual eco-design challenge in his name.

We have certainly supported and partaken in holistic medicine, however an emphasis on holistic design still seems revolutionary.

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