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 (Ellyn Bye Studio)
How is Portland addressing , “Buckminster Fuller’s vision “to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone?” Join leaders from across the region, including David Bragdon of Metro and Mercy Corps NW’s John Haines, among others for a talk centering on “Spaceship Earth” challenges like environmental stewardship, population growth, equity, sustainable development and shelter.

Designs on Portland: Designing Dreams, Engineering Desire
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30–8:30 PM
Design Within Reach Portland Studio (1200 NW Everett)
What role do design and technology play in how we imagine “the future?” How do designers balance between the manufacturing of desire and the “more with less” impulse to solve complex global issues? Join Brian Libby for a conversation with Sohrab Vossoughi, founder and president of ZIBA Design and Daniel H. Wilson, robotics engineer and author of Where’s My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived. Drinks/Refreshments served.

Trevor Blake: The Approximately Omnidirectional Ephemeralization of Richard Buckminster Fuller
Sunday, November 30, 6 pm (Mezzanine)
One of Portland’s resident Buckminster Fuller scholars, presents an innovative meditation on the man who urged us all to “do more with less.”

Tony Fry—Design Futuring, Culture and the Coming Age of Unsettlement
A PNCA+FIVE Idea Studio presentation
Friday, December 5, 12:30 pm (Ellyn Bye Studio)
Serendipitously timed with PCS’ R. Buckminster Fuller. . ., visionary design theorist Tony Fry argues that “the moment of decision is now upon us.” Evoking Fuller’s radical manifesto-like urgency, Fry (one of Australia’s leading eco-design theorists and a visiting artist at PNCA) poses and unpacks two crucial and linked questions: how can design, as a positive force for change, be made to happen? And, how can design become a redirective practice rather than an agent of “defuturing?” A visionary look at design’s challenges in “the age of unsettlement” – and how we might chart pathways to an equilibrium or sustainment. Free & Open to the public

All events are FREE and open to the public.

R. Buckminster Fuller-related events are made possible in part by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, and the Oregon Community Foundation

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