CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - A famous figure in southern Illinois history’s 130th birthday is coming up, and everyone’s invited to a party in his honor. From 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 12, the public is ...
His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image. If you have any mental image of Buckminster Fuller, you might picture him as a ...
Mick Glasheen, an architect and pioneer of early cinema and experimental film, created work that was heavily influenced by media theorists. His video Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board ...
Buckminster Fuller believed in solving problems by design. In fact, he believed that all the problems, large and small, facing Spaceship Earth—the term he coined for our planet—could be solved by ...
If you’ve spent anytime inside, or even helped build, a geodesic dome, then you have encountered the legacy of architect, inventor, author, and thinker R. Buckminster Fuller. From the 1950s to the ...
Today is Wednesday, July 30, the 211th day of 2025. There are 154 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On July 30, 1976, Bruce Jenner, now known as ...
NINE CHAINS TO THE MOON—R. Buckminster Fuller—Lippincott ($4). If all the people on the earth stood on one another’s shoulders, they would make nine chains to the moon. For most citizens, that thought ...
In her forthcoming book, After Spaceship Earth, Eva Díaz, an art historian and associate professor in Pratt Institute’s History of Art and Design Department, critically examines R. Buckmister Fuller’s ...
Carrie Heitman, Jamie Effros, and Elizabeth London in a scene from ‘God Is a Verb’ (all photos by Mitch Dean, courtesy Hook & Eye Theater) Elizabeth London, Hannah Hartmann, Sade Namei, Jamie Effros, ...
A soundtrack is an essential part of a movie, so it’s appropriate that the “live documentary” “The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller” has a live soundtrack. When filmmaker Sam Green brings the show ...
In the early 20th century, there was a glorious period when cars were still new enough that we didn't quite know what to do ...