Biomimicry 3.8. Eight Strategies for Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. In 1950, Buckminster Fuller set up an outline for a course in Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science.
Taught at MIT in 1956 as part of the Creative Engineering Laboratory, this course by Fuller probably served as one of their more unusual offerings. The students who took the course, all engineers, industrial designers, materials scientists and chemists, represented research and development corporations across America. The following presents highlights from Fuller's syllabus outlining eight components of the course, written before the Dymaxion Map reached its final, icosahedral phase and preceding the publication of Synergetics I and II by twenty-five years.
Five Skills Designers Have That Global Development Needs. “Development is being disrupted,” says Raj Kumar, president of DevEx, a site devoted to helping the international development community deliver foreign aid more efficiently and effectively.
Beyond the buzz generated by the “social entrepreneurship” and “impact investing” communities, I’ve seen a significant shift coming from traditional aid agencies in the past two years. In 2010, USAID, the agency responsible for administering US foreign aid, launched the first-of-its-kind Development Innovation Ventures quarterly grant program.
Systems thinking.