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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge!
FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION: October 16, 2009
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Hosted by: the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, launched in 2007, is an annual global design competition whose $100,000 prize supports the development and implementation of a bold, visionary, tangible initiative that has significant potential to help solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Learn about the prize’s Bucky-inspired design criteria, goals and impacts.
With: BFI executive director Elizabeth Thompson; John Todd, the prize’s first winner, visionary biomimic and ecological design elder; Greg Watson, senior advisor for clean energy technology for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs and Bioneers board member; and a representative from the 2009 Challenge Winner—an MIT Media Lab student team working on visionary urban transportation and mobility.
Location: B1
Topic Areas: Ecological Design
