Presented by The Buckminster Fuller Institute. Hosted by David McConville, BFI President.
With 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge finalists: Jason McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, CEO, Cascadia Green Building Council; Cheryl Dahle, founder, Future of Fish.
Fifty years ago the visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller called for a “design science revolution.” The Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge Prize is a clarion call for today’s whole-systems designers to solve the world’s greatest ecological and social challenges. The $100,000 prize aids the further development of a “trimtab” solution that best demonstrates the capacity to catalyze systemic change using Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science. In this session two of this year’s four finalists will share their extraordinary projects.
The Living Building Challenge seeks to set the highest possible level of environmental performance in construction and design to push the building industry to re-imagine itself and dramatically re-frame how human buildings and infrastructure function within ecosystems. Future of Fish is a groundbreaking, pragmatic effort to address the very complex crisis of overharvesting that threatens the world’s wild marine fisheries by incubating highly innovative market based models that can drive seafood sustainability and marine conservation.
Embassy Suites Ballroom | 4:30pm-6:00pm, Sun
