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2 Figure 1: Cover image: Programmatic drawing of Lightfut Houses, 1928. [R. Buckminster Fuller Archive. Special Collections, Stanford University]
4 Figure 2: Bucky makes changes to the publishers page proofs for the first edition of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, taping small pieces of paper to the side of the page. [R. Buckminster Fuller Archive, Special Collections, Stanford University]
6 Figure 3: Lecture transcript, October 16, 1967, page 1
7 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth evolved out of a transcript from a lecture Bucky gave on October 16, 1967, in Washington D.C. It was the closing address for the 50th Annual Convention of the American Planners Association. This is the first page from the transcript, which was deleted from the opening of the book when it became the raw material for the manuscript.
0.1 1 Resources
8The Buckminster Fuller Institute
10 Founded in 1983. The Buckminster Fuller Institute serves a global network of design science innovators working at the leading edge of the design revolution Fuller inspired— including the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual $100.000 prize to support the development and implementation of solutions to humanitys most pressing problems. 181 N.11th St. Suite 402/Brooklyn, NY 11211/718 290-9280
11 The R. Buckminster Fuller Archive
12http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/fuller/index.html
13 Called in 1976 by archivists from the Smithsonian Institute, the most extensive personal archive in existence, the collection contains over 1,300 linear feet of papers and manuscripts, 2,000 hours of video and audio recordings, and thousands of models and other artifacts.
14 Dept of Special Collections/The Stanford University Libraries/Stanford, CA 94305
15 The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
16http://www.buckminsterfuller.net
17 Fostering the preservation, publication, and dissemination of Buckminster Fullers legacy.
18 P.O. Box 3248/Santa Barbara. CA 93130/Fax: 805 456-2912
19 The Earth Policy Institute
21 The Earth Policy Institute, dedicated to building a sustainable future as well as providing a plan of how to get from here to there, publishes the remarkable book Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by founder and President Lester R. Brown (free online access).
22 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW. Suite 403/Washington, DC 20036/Fax: 202 496-9325
23 The ONE Campaign
25 The campaign to make poverty history is over 2.4 million people committed to raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease, and efforts to fight such problems in the worlds poorest countries.
26 Rocky Mountain Institute
28 An independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit organization fostering the efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure, just, prosperous, and life-sustaining, co-founded by scientist Amory Lovins, and featuring publications such as their groundbreaking Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security (free online access).
29 2317 Snowmass Creek Road/Snowmass, CO 81654/970 927-3851
30 The We Campaign
32 A project of The Alliance for Climate Protection— a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore that aims to halt global warming through educating people in the U.S. and around the world that the climate crisis is both urgent and solvable.
0.2 2 Bibliography
0.3 3 Books by R. Buckminster Fuller
344-D Timelock, 1928
35 Nine Chains to the Moon. 1938
36 Education Automation, 1962
37 Untitled Epic Poem on the History of Industrialization, 1962
38 Ideas and Integrities, 1963
39 No More Secondhand God, 1963
40 World Design Science Decade,3 1963–1967 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969
41 3With John McHale
42 Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. 1969
43 Buckminster Fuller to the Children of the Earth, 1972
44 Intuition, 1972
45 Earth, Inc., 1973
46 Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking.4 1975 Tetrascroll, 1975
47 4In Collaboration with E. J. Applewhite
48 And It Came to Pass— Not to Stay, 1976
49 On Education,5 1979 Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking,6 1979 Critical Path,1981
50 5Robert D. Kahn and Peter H. Wagschal, editors
51 6In Collaboration with E. J. Applewhite
52 Grunch of Giants, 1983
53 Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983
54 Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity7 1992
55 7Kiyoshi Kuromiya. Adjuvant
0.4 4 Published by Lars Müller Publishers
56And It Came to Pass— Not to Stay, new edition 2008
57 Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, new edition 2008
58 Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity, new edition 2008
59 Fuller Houses: R. Buckminster Fullers Dymaxion Dwellings and other Domestic Adventures. Federico Neder, 2008
60 Your Private Sky: The Art of Design Science, Volume 1, 1999, edited by Joachim Krause and Claude Lichtenstein
61 Your Private Sky: Discourse: The Art of Design Science, Volume 2, 2000, edited by Joachim Krause and Claude Lichtenstein
0.5 5 Acknowledgments
62From the bottom of my heart, I wish to thank all the devoted and inspired individuals who assisted me in preparing these new editions of Buckminster Fullers books:
63 I could not have undertaken this project without the unswerving support of my beloved wife, Cheryl. She was my partner, primary advisor, and tireless editor in reviewing the new materials I wrote. She always encouraged me to seize this moment to bring focus to the grave challenges— and opportunities— facing our planet.
64 It was a great pleasure to work again with Dr. Janet Brown. She joined me in the multimonth process of re-reading the books for the series, updating facts and figures, and finally in being an expert editor. And as in any project I undertake at this point in my life, John Ferry is at my side— as he has been for over 25 years. He backed me up with finding photos, selecting images, assembling materials, researching background facts, and resolving any other loose ends, not to mention the management of our numerous other projects.
65 I want to also thank Roberto Trujillo, head of Stanford Universitys Department of Special Collections, for his support of my research at the R. Buckminster Fuller Archive. I especially want to thank Mattie Taormina, the Head of Public Services and Manuscripts Processing Librarian, who facilitated my research and expedited my needs for scans of images from the Archive. Living nearby, it was an unexpected treat to be able to spend some days in their beautiful reading room to joyfully commune with Bucky through his own working papers.
66 I particularly would like to express my appreciation for Lars Müller. Lars and I have been enjoying talking about this project for almost ten years, ever since he designed the two beautiful volumes of Your Private Sky: The Art of Design Science. Lars is a great artist of book design, and his encouragement all along the way inspired me to pursue the vision of presenting these books to a new generation in a fashion fitting to their remarkable prescience. I want to also acknowledge his fine team at Lars Müller Publishers in Switzerland: Michael Furrer, Katharina Kulke, and Lea Pfister, supplemented by Jonathan Fox in Spain. I cannot imagine a more competent team to undertake such a task.
67 And finally I want to express my gratitude to my dear Fuller family: my sister, Alexandra Fuller May, a passionate champion of design revolution, who urged us to go for a design that would reach a vital new audience. My mother, Allegra Fuller Snyder, who cheered me on in this project, and gave of her aesthetic wisdom and deep sensitivity for Buckys way of being. My father, the late Robert Snyder, who joined the fold and gave so much to this work as a pioneering documentarian of Bucky. My aunt Alexandra Fuller, who died five years before Allegra was born. And dear dear Bucky and Anne, who gave so much for us.
68 J.S.
70 Figure 4: Note to Vernon
71 During the 1960s Bucky was Research Professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Illinois. While there, he published a number of books at Southern Illinois University Press, including the first edition of Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. The editor there was Vernon Sternberg. In this handwritten note— a photocopy placed amidst a rather final edition and a schedule from the publisher of upcoming page proofs— Bucky writes of Operating Manual: Vernon. As I finished this I realize that we may have in it a runaway bestsellergood luck, and affectionate regard, Bucky.
72 [R. Buckminster Fuller Archive, Special Collections, Stanford University]