1The Design Initiative
2World Design Science Decade 19651975 ů Phase I, Document 2
3R. Buckminster Fuller
4World Resources Inventory, Southern Illinois University
5World
Resources
Inventory,
Southern
Illinois
University
Carbondale,
Illinois
6Originally published 1963
7Digital Edition (Version 1.0)
8Prepared: 2026-07-06
9The Design Initiative: World Design Science Decade 19651975 ů Phase I, Document
2
by R. Buckminster Fuller
10Copyright © 1963 R. Buckminster Fuller
Published by World Resources Inventory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
Illinois
11Originally published by the World Resources Inventory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois. This digital edition is a faithful transcription of the original printed document, prepared from page scans; the original wording, spelling and typographic idiosyncrasies have been preserved.
12Digital Edition – prepared 2026
Version 1.0
13Phase I, Document 2 of the World Design Science Decade (19651975): the design initiative. Built around R. Buckminster Fuller’s discourse to the International Symposium on Architecture of the Inter...
14World Resources Inventory, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, Illinois