What role do design and technology play in how we imagine “the future?”
How do designers strike a balance between the manufacture of desire and Buckminster Fuller’s “more with less” impulse to contribute to the global good?
Join Portland Architecture’s Brian Libby and Tim DuRoche of PCS for a conversation with Sohrab Vossoughi, founder and [...]

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Tonight!!! Monday, November 10 in the Ellyn Bye Studio
Just added to the panel: Economist Joe (”The Young and the Restless”) Cortright

DYMAXION PORTLAND & THE SPACESHIP EARTH
A conversation about regional resources with
David Bragdon (Metro), John Haines (Mercy Corps NW), Jill Fuglister (Coalition for a Livable Future) and Lawrence Wallack (PSU’s College of Urban and Public [...]

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‘Tis the season for politics, no? With an election upon us and the current MIC (military-industrial-complex) bucking for an upgrade to the Military-Industrial-Infotainment-Vortex, I was very pleased to see that Robert Baer (former CIA spook and author) gave a high-five and shout-out to Buckminster Fuller.
Casually clicking through the pages of Foreign Policy Magazine (your [...]

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“One of the most vivid images I have of my father are his fingertips. I can see him sitting, with his eyes closed, searching deeply into his mind/experience, with his fingertips barely tapping together, or his hands reaching out in one of those broad and animated gestures so common in later years when he lectured. [...]

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Throughout the run of R. Buckminster Fuller. . ., PCS invites the community to explore the visionary legacy of Fuller’s thinking and its impact on design, sustainability, engineering, global equity and so on. Below’s a great sampling of ideas–with a great Portland twist to them.
Dymaxion Portland and the Spaceship Earth
Monday, November 10 7:30 pm [...]

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