Bucky Fuller: 42 Hours of Lectures+joe breskin :
"I have a friend who followed Bucky Fuller around for the last 5 years of his life, taping every lecture on Betacam. To the best of my knowledge (last time we talked about it) he tapes are/were still sort of safe in a couple of footlockers, waiting for the emergence of a wet-pass machine to digitize them. This archive may motivate him to get started."Buckminster Fuller: Self-Disciplineshttp://bfi.org/disciplinesConversation, Adaptation, Exaptation and then some...+Adam Black Three wheeled Car didnt pan out... -New Revolutionary idea: Convince humanity to walk with only 1 leg!
+John Kellden And an even more revolutionary idea, learn how to walk gently, feet touching ground, on this planet Gaia. :)
+Joachim Stroh7. Seek to reform the environment, not the humans. I am determined never to try to persuade humanity to alter its customs and viewpoints.
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+Adam BlackThat doesnt make a lot of sense.
+Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting."
-- B. Fuller
- mental as well as physical
+John Kellden+Adam Black it can be seen as the "person in the situation". People typically resist change, yet most of us adapt fairly well, if and when our environment changes.
Good connecting the dots +Joachim Stroh .
+Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu that's a good B Fuller. It reminds me a bit of the sanskrit "sarvam annam" - everything is food. If we are sufficiently aligned and attuned to our own ecosystem, it typically provides.
+Adam Johnson is our resident expert in this community with regards to options for reframing waste and pollution.
+Joachim StrohThanks, John. Something related to what you said:
http://davegray.looplogic.com/change-toolHow do you influence without control?
+Kevin von Duuglas-IttuI think Fuller wrote that quote in his book A Critical Path (man, that's a LONG time ago for me!), and somewhere around where he introduced the idea of there being no such thing as pollution he made the beautiful observation that when you hear a loud snap explosion in firewood on a fire that's a particularly sunny day (week) from a long time ago releasing itself. This kind of process thinking helps us get away from oppositionalism, super helpful in my O.
+Adam JohnsonThese are beautiful. Each is almost a koan on its own. I especially like 7, in effect change people by changing their world.
Thanks for the nod +John Kellden. I like the line +Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu quotes, and am reminded of a quote along the lines that waste is resources we are not smart enough to use. Perhaps it's from the "waste = food" of Cradle to Cradle by Braungart and McDonough (may have his surname spelled wrong).
Fuller is incredible in his thinking. Sometimes it seems that only now is his systems thinking understood. Other times it seems his thinking is not understood yet. But I think it is expressed in some of the more interesting environmental work around abundance and regenerative design.
+Adam Black I like Fuller, but Pollution-which-harms-life exists. And Human beliefs and customs that permit it, are what must change.
+Adam Johnson +Adam Black Of course pollution-which-harms-life exists, but it does not exist in the same way as a tree or a rock exists. It exists as the product of a series of design decisions, and that is what I understand by the quote +Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu refers to.
Pollution, like waste, is resources in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is not inevitable. I think that reframing the materials that make up pollution as resources that can be used creates the framework within which a design solution can be derived. In fact, it drives that solution.
Yes, human beliefs and customs need to change. Again my understanding only, but I read Fuller to say that the most effective way to change human beliefs and customs is to change their environment around them. He speaks as a systems thinker, and would prefer to do clever design changes than a perpetual struggle to change people within an otherwise broken system. I also prefer Fuller's approach - it appeals to my sense that design thinking can make a difference.
+John KelldenGreat comments by everyone. +Adam Johnson a perfect example of how a Design Attitude is far superior to a Decision Attitude.
+Luis GalarzaGreat post +John Kellden. Let me tell you that the "thinking outside the box" approach save my restaurant businesses and actually turn them into a marketing beacon for new ideas and experimentation.
+John Kellden +Luis Galarza hi, this is good to hear, and an important additional context, how social business ideas, digital networks, can augment and improve local, traditional businesses! In this regard, you are one of the leading pioneers.
+Luis Galarza Thank you +John Kellden, at my establishments I use social in an inverted way. Which so far have been very successful to generate positive conversations about my brand without my participation.
+Joachim Stroh Just occurred to me this morning that #7 is about adaptation, not about adoption. The former is more evolutionary (changing the environment > people adapt), the latter is more revolutionary (changing the people > people resist). This would help explain some of the misguided adoption strategies in social. Just a thought.
+John Kellden +Joachim Stroh an important difference! Timely share, was reading about adaptive innovation.
+Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu +Joachim Stroh Perhaps an important word/concept here is exaptation:
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIIE5cExaptations.shtml - The reason why social adoptions fail is that social features fail to be re-purposed. Human behavior change should feature exaptation, not "revolution", imo.
+Joachim Stroh Adapation & exaptation, excellent suggestion, Kevin. I'm trying to come up with some examples for both. I can see an individual coping with information overload by aggregating & filtering content or a collective coping with incomplete/inconsistent information through collective sensemaking as examples for adaptation (there's also an iterative aspect in the use of methods and technologies, increasing "fitness" as we move along).
What about examples for exaptation?
There is no way to predict what 'Darwinian Pre-adaptations' exist today, what can be exapted to new functions, in some cases existing affordances only become visible once they are seized - that is after the fact.--
+John Verdon I may have one example via
+John Tropea : email isn't just a communication tool, people use them as knowledge maps and archives
+Kevin von Duuglas-IttuI think exaptation is everywhere, proliferate. All forms of invention use it. Sometimes it is conceptual as in things like "The brain is like a computer" (analogical thinking), and sometimes it is behavioral/conceptual, for instance how Pinterest has created a dynamic scrapbook just when scrapbooks were nearly extinct. I think key here is that when you want to bring about behavior or conceptual change you need to find (usually with intuition) existing cultural analogs to graft them onto. The automobile was a "horseless carriage" before it was an automobile proper (one reason why the engine was in front). Most of these occur in inspiration, but I think they can be strategized as well.
