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 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.

A great opportunity to explore the varieties of design-within-reach on a local, historical and global stage—from Portland Center Stage’s R. Buckminster Fuller. . ., to Museum of Contemporary Craft’s Manuf®actured and Oregon Historical Society’s Raymond Loewy exhibition.

Designs on Portland: Designing Dreams, Engineering Desire
with Sohrab Vossoughi and Daniel H. Wilson
TONIGHT: Wednesday, November 19, 6:30–8:30 PM at Design Within Reach (1200 NW Everett).

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

{photo: A pop modern update of a geodesic dome house built on a mountain top in Ojai, California.}

Our graphic designer, Michael, finder of all cool things design, ran across a post on design:related about a geodesic dome house designed by Shawn Hausman and Jessica Kimberley. Check out the intriguing solutions to creating privacy while maintaining openness in the series of pictures posted on the blog here.

Bucky built his own geodesic dome house out of wood while he was a professor in Carbondale Illinois. A foundation is now working to restore the house. Check out some intriguing photos of its (now deteriorating) interiors and find out more about how Bucky solved some of the livability problems of having no flat walls.

The geodesic dome was invented by R.Buckminster Fuller. Our one man show about his life and ideas, R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE plays in our studio through December 7th.

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Our friend and Buck-a-neer Kirby Urner recently blogged his thoughts about our November 10th Dymaxion Portland conversation, where we invited prominent Portlanders in to share their ideas about Bucky and how his concepts translate into current NW urban policy and sustainability practice.

Here were some of his thoughts about the event

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If you missed Tim DuRoche’s interview with with Allegra Fuller(Buckminster Fuller’s daughter), and DW Jacobs(the playwright and director of R. Buckminster Fuller), here’s your chance to catch a condensed version in two parts.

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 Affairs)

Forty years ago, Buckminster Fuller envisioned a World Game that would , “make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone.”

Join some of Portland’s leading thinkers and policy-makers for a discussion on the region’s “Spaceship Earth” challenges (like open spaces and environmental stewardship, renewable energy population growth, equity, sustainable development, climate change, hunger and affordable/adequate shelter). Presented in conjunction with PCS’ production of R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE.

Monday, November 10, 7:30 pm
Ellyn Bye Studio, Gerding Theater at the Armory (Free and open to the public)
For more information: timd@pcs.org.| www.pcs.org

Make a night of it! Come by after the Portland Spaces/City Club Bright Lights Discussion Series featuring Congressman Earl Blumenauer in conversation with Randy Gragg (at Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave, starting at 6 pm)

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