For more on Henry visit his site.

Henry Jenkins Opening Keynote

5 Questions With Elena Parker

What will you be doing at DIY DAYS?

This year at DIYDays, I’ll be showing a project called “Constellation of Stories,” as part of the new Open Design Experiences section. I’m also excited to hear about what other people are working on and to learn new techniques or approaches to storytelling from the panels and participants.

What is your background?

I come from a hybrid documentary film/’new media’ background. I studied film as an undergrad and then worked on the HBO Documentary “Youth Knows No Pain.” After that I worked for the New York Public Library and helped create their first iPad app – Biblion: the Boundless Library. The app plotted hundreds of stories from the 1939-1940 World’s Fair collection in a spatial environment and combined source documents and images with video, sound and scholarly writing. Now I am currently in grad school at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, working on figuring out how to incorporate emerging technologies into art and narrative.

What do you see as the most exciting development in storytelling today?

I think universal access to media is probably the most important… the fact that people essentially carry their computers in their pockets. Being able to reach people any time, any place is a really exciting idea, particularly in regards to creating participatory narratives. Personally, I’m also secretly obsessed with the idea of cameras as sensors and in the development of eye tracking software/devices. I think that the subtleties that cameras can detect when used as sensors can really impact our ability to weave subconscious interaction into stories.

What’s your wish for the future?

Cookies. For all! Also… easier and cheaper ways for everyone to have access to local, organic and sustainable food choices. So, I suppose… organic, locally made, still-delicious cookies for all!

If you could share a book, film, album, and experience with the future what would each be?

Book: Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire. 

Important to note that we’re expanding the popular “What are you working on and what do you need” open sessions. Attendees of DIY DAYS are handed a mic and given 60 seconds to share what they are passionate about. There will be 35 to 40 slots available on a first come first serve basis. “What are you working on and what do you need” will be held in front of the full DIY DAYS audience in Tischman Auditorium.

Saturday March 3rd @ the New School in NYC

The New School
66 W 12th St.
NY, NY 10011

DESIGN QUESTION OF THE DAY

“How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?” – Buckminster Fuller

*The schedule is subject to change

9:30 to 10:15
REGISTRATION

Once registered, head to TISHMAN AUDITORIUM

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS – TISHMAN AUDITORIUM

10:15 to 10:25
WELCOME & HOW THE DAY WILL WORK

10:25 to 10:35

A VOICE FROM THE FUTURE
Elementary school students open the event with a performance. This sets the stage for the day.

10:40 to 11:10
SUSTAINABILITY BY DESIGN
Speaker – Michael Ben-Eli

11:10 to 11:20
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AND WHAT DO YOU NEED?
***Open Mic – each person is given 60 seconds. Slots are available on a first come first serve basis. SIGN UP when you arrive.

11:20 to 11:40
PLAY – UNLOCKING THE IMAGINATION OF MANY
Speaker – Nicholas Fortugno

11:40 to 11:50
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AND WHAT DO YOU NEED?
***Open Mic – each person is given 60 seconds. Slots are available on a first come first serve basis. SIGN UP when you arrive.

11:50 to 12:10
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING – role of tech, creativity & collaboration within education
Speaker – Benjamin Salka

12:10 to 12:30
LISTEN AS YOUR STORY TALKS TO THE INTERNET
Speaker – Lance Weiler

12:30 to 12:40
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AND WHAT DO YOU NEED?
***Open Mic – each person is given 60 seconds. Slots are available on a first come first serve basis. SIGN UP when you arrive.

12:40 to 12:50
THE WORLD OF BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Speaker – Kurt Przybilla

12:50 to 1:40
BREAK FOR LUNCH

OPEN DESIGN EXPERIENCES – Ongoing 1:40 to 4:45
LET YOUR “MAP TO THE FUTURE” BE YOUR GUIDE – attendees will be given a special map that turns the day into an experience design exercise.

WOLLMAN HALL (also known as EXPERIENCE HALL)

1:40 to 4:45

- OCCUPY – conflict resolution role-playing and mobilization game design
Guide – Errol King & members of OWS

- DESIGN SCIENCE – a look at the world of Buckminster Fuller
Guide – Kurt Przybilla and Sophie Nichols

- ROBOT HEART STORIES – help a robot make her way back home
a Reboot Stories participatory project

- POCKET STORIES – storytelling through common objects
Guide – Katie Baker

- PROTOTYPING THE FUTURE
with Makerbots and the Parsons School of Design

- WISH BOOTH & TIME MACHINES – participatory storytelling
a Story Pirates & Reboot Stories participatory project

- A CONSTELLATION OF STORIES – a kinect hack turns your motions into stars
Guide – Elena Parker

ROOM 510

1:40 to 4:45
OPEN DESIGN TRACK
- DIY Healthcare Reform – how storytelling and gameplay can improve health care
Guide – Noah Pivnick

ROOM 518

1:40 to 4:45
OPEN DESIGN TRACK
- Building a sustainable creative industry
This room is open to whoever wishes to participate in a think tank on creative sustainability

Led by Arin Crumley from 1:40-3:15; and Zeke Zelker from 3:15-4:30

ROOM 406
1:40 to 4:00
OPEN TALKS
- 10 minute slot spaces are open on a first come first serve basis. Sign up when you register on the morning of the event. These open slots are NOT for sales pitches. They are for interesting projects, people looking for collaborators, and for sharing of creative ideas and ways in which we can build a better future. *PLEASE NOTE the room only has VGA projection so come with the proper connections and your laptop. This room will be supported by the community – meaning it will be totally DIY. In the past these open slots have been awesome! Leave room in your day to swing by and check it out.

TISHMAN AUDITORIUM
1:40 to 4:00
WRITERS IMPROV – FINDING AN EMOPTIONAL CORE IN STORYTELLING
A collaborative exercise in the creation of an open storyworld influenced by attendees of DIY DAYS.
Lead by Writers Improv founder Christina Kallas

WORKSHOP TRACK A – NARRATIVE DESIGN. Begins at 1:30pm

ROOM 407

1:40 to 2:20
PRIMER ON BUILDING STORIES THAT LIVE BEYOND ONE SCREEN
Speakers – Aina Abiodun,  Jen Begeal,  Mike Knowlton, and Rachel Fairbanks

2:20 to 2:50 
WHAT THE HECK IS A CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
Speakers – Mark Harris & Heidi Hysell

2:55 to 3:40
THE TRANSMEDIA BALANCING ACT
Speaker – Andrea Phillips

3:45 to 4:15 
MEASURING SUCCESS – new methods for funding, engaging and creating
Speakers – Sparrow Hall, Ele Jansen, Nick Braccia, and Ryan Aynes

4:20 to 4:50
BUILDING A VALUABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR AUDIENCE
Speaker – Ryan Koo

WORKSHOP TRACK B – STORYTELLING AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE. Begins at 2:00pm

ROOM 404

2:00 to 2:45
MOBILIZING THROUGH STORYTELLING
Speaker – Lina Srivastava

3:00 to 3:45
EXTEND YOUR PROJECT’S REACH: DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
Speaker – Felicia Pride

4:00 to 4:45
WORLDS OF LEARNING: TRANSMEDIA FOR CHILDREN & EDUCATION
Speakers – Laura Fleming, Lucas J.W. Johnson, KarenWehner

THE BUILDING OF A TIME CAPSULE
TISCHMAN AUDITORIUM

5:00 to 5:30 
SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS
An exciting close to the day – you won’t believe who you’ll get to meet.

AFTER PARTY / SOCIAL MIXER
5:45 to 7:30
DRINKS AND FOOD @ BAR13

If you have children or know of someone who does – let them know that they should bring them to the DIY DAYS Experience Hall which runs from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. It’s totally FREE. There will be 8 different experience stations to participate in. Plus children and adults will be about to co-create…

PROTOTYPE THE FUTURE WITH STUDENTS
Tomorrow we’ll have prototyping sessions for the future. The goal is that the sessions will be open to participants who want to  rapidly prototype the future with elementary school students. It’s about building a collective “Wish for the Future.”


Megan’s (age 11) Energy Efficient Jet

From imagination to reality – participants will be able to prototype and watch as their concepts are turned into objects via MakerBot 3D printers.

WE NEED 3D MODELERS
We need two to three more 3D modelers to work with simple and accessible solutions like http://tinkercad.com If you’re already coming to DIY DAYS and you are into 3D modeling we’re thinking we’ll just need people for an hour or two. If you’re interested please email work@workbookproject.com

5 Questions for Carlin Wragg

What’s your background?

I’m a writer and experience designer with expertise in content development, storytelling, and social media. As a matriculating graduate student in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and Editor of Open Loop Press, I use writing and interactive technology to create new ways to experience literature and culture. Current projects include “Storywalks at Eldridge Street” for the Museum at Eldridge Street, “Volumes of Voices” for the New York Public Library, and “Found Letters: Jack & Matilda.”

What are are you working on and what do you need?

I’m working on a series of projects that combine storytelling with interaction design to bring spaces to life. I need help identifying the experimental approaches to their technology, i.e. interior “geolocation” without GPS or Kinect sensor, as well as user feedback about theexperience design.

What are do you hope to get out of DIY DAYS?

Discover solutions to unsolved problems by learning about the projects the DIY Days community is creating.

What’s your wish for the future?

I hope, in the future, the fusion of art and technology will be responsible for life-changing transformative innovation.

If you could share a book, film, album, and experience with the future what would each be?

Book = Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald.
Film = Days of Heaven, directed by Terrence Malick.
Album = Otto Klemperer’s performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
Experience = The first time you see the crystal chandeliers by Hans Harald Rath rise before a performance at the Metropolitan Opera.

http://carlinmwragg.net

@carlinmwragg

What are are you working on and what do you need?

I’m working on my thesis. Yes, I did graduate (summa cum laude with departmental honors).

My thesis, The Hyrtl Simulacrum, was added to the permanent collection of The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, and was named a finalist the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards for Interactive Installation Design.

The project has been exhibited at the 2011 World Design Expo in Taipei, MAX 2011 LA, and parts of the project are currently on display at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.
There’s been some press about the project: The Awl, a Tech webzines in Russia ( http://tesnota.com/ ), The New York Academy of Science endorsed the project and I’ve spoken on the work at Parsons and Observatory in Brooklyn – and the prints sell.

I’m currently looking to make this a collaborative project and looking for funding for the 3d and augmented reality aspect design.

What are do you hope to get out of DIY DAYS?

Some interested people with some interesting skills. I’d like to see if there are projects where people could use my skills as well … and financing of course.

What’s your wish for the future?

To see the AR part of this project really finds some legs and get done. I want to see visitor at the museum seeing these reconstructions and making that connection to the collection.

If you could share a book, film, album, and experience with the future what would each be?

The Gormenghast Novels

Jeanne Kelly has been a designer and artist for over 20 years. From oil paintings, stone lithography and figurative life drawing I moved to layouts, logos and digital retouching to pay the bills and expand my skills.
She returned to school, recently graduating from Parsons with her MFA in Design and Technology. Right now she is freelance, doing interaction design, illustration, branding and filming and editing for the web and working on my own project – which brings her here.

The Hrytl Simulacrum And the Mutter Museum

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5 Questions for Karen Bellinger Wehner

What will you be doing at DIY DAYS?

Together with Laura Fleming and Lucas JW Johnson, I’m presenting a workshop on educational transmedia content creation for and with children, both in traditional classroom settings and beyond.

What is your background?

My background is pretty mixed. I have an undergraduate degree in literature, a PhD in anthropology, and have spent the past 15 years as an educator and researcher in historical archaeology. I’ve also done stints in strategic consulting, branding, and media communications for a variety of creative industries.

My current focus pulls all these strands together in a really satisfying way, as I’m directing development of a transmedia time travel adventure I created for tween age kids (ages 8–13), based on real history and archaeology. The core platform is a point-and-click adventure game embedded in a virtual world environment, complemented by digital comics, mobile apps and real world toys and exploration. The whole experience is underpinned by a serialized epic storyline.

What do you see as the most exciting development in education today?

It’s really exciting to see proliferating calls – and strategies – for breaking out of the confines of traditional didactic approaches to education. The ability to sit quietly while listening to a teacher ‘’deliver’’ knowledge simply isn’t going to prepare today’s kids to think critically and to find solutions to the increasingly complex global problems they will inherit.

Technology has had so much to do with this evolution, but I think for the first time, rather than merely slapping new ways of presenting information over familiar teaching formats, we’re beginning to view new technologies as foundations for wholly new learning paradigms.

Personally, I’m most excited by the slow but sure embrace of the idea that technology-based play can deliver engaging, effective, and above all natural paths to learning.

What’s your wish for the future?

If we’re going to inspire young people to become active and responsible global citizens, cross-cultural education, tolerance and empathy need to become as standard in school curricula as reading, writing and arithmetic. That’s going to require a seismic shift from current standards, but I believe the ever-expanding world our children will inhabit demands it.

If you could share a book, film, album, and experience with the future what would each be? Meaning what work would you like to send into the future in hopes that it would enrich it.

Book: Aside from being a great read, The Hunger Games trilogy neatly conflates two of the most defining features of present-day America,with its increasingly pervasive media presence and general fin de siècle malaise, as we grapple with economic crisis and growing unease at the rift between haves and have-nots. It’s a cautionary tale from which any age would benefit.

Film: I’ve got to go with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Beautiful and weird, with a unique and powerful twist on the fundamental truths of human existence: life, love, loss.

Album: Neil Young’s Harvest. After all these years, it’s simple, sweet and yet haunting. Young really conveys a sense of one man’s life, stripped down to the bone.

Experience: Standing in the awe-inspiring Inca ruins at Macchu Picchu, Peru – at sunrise,before all the tourist hordes pour in.  As with so many other heritage sites, however, we have a lot of work ahead of usif we are to preserve this wonder for the benefit of future generations.

5 Questions With Lauren Packard

What is your background?

Studied Art History and Religion at Barnard and Columbia, taught art for over 8 years, love swimming

What’s your wish for the future?

My wish for the future is positive change and to hear voices that have predominantly been unheard.

If you could share a book, film, album, and experience with the future what would each be? Meaning what work would you liketo send into the future in hopes that it would enrich it.

I would send this quote because I keep coming back to them everyday in my teaching and living. The Margaret Mead quote is really what inspired my class to write to Scott Stringer about the benefits of having a green roof- both environmentally and nutritionally. I would want to share all of the positive, challenging, exciting work that kids are doing all over the world and outside of all kinds of preconceived boxes. I would want them to follow dreams. I would also want to share some of the amazing street art that is happening all over the city and world- work that grabs their attention and makes them think and then do something!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead

Lauren Packard is a 4th/5th grade teacher at The Neighborhood School on the lower east side. She has been teaching in NYC public schools for over 12 years. Her career started as an art teacher, which is still a strong passion of hers. She loves exploring questions and ideas with children in order to help them construct their own understanding of the world around them, especially around issues of social justice and activism. Her class has been involved in starting a grass roots campaign for a school green roof, which already has the borough President’s commitment. She enjoys making and creating things that push other’s thinking. She is always looking for new ways to engage children and teaching. She is a native Californian who moved to NY to attend Barnard and never left! She lives in Brooklyn with her partner Leslie and their 2 cats, Scrappy and Mancha. They are happy to call Brooklyn home.

5 Questions for Ryan Aynes

What will you be doing at DIY DAYS?

Speaking on ”Measuring Success – new methods for funding, engaging and creating”  I’ll also touch on brand storytelling and what we’re doing at Ogilvy to move forward on this.  But really, starting something from nothing, I’ve made an art out of it.

What is your background?

I spent 8 years in technology, creating an array of different digital social media start-up’s, I now work as Vice President of Social@Ogilvy, managing mostly the financial sector.

What do you see as the most exciting development in storytelling today?

What Facebook is doing right now is boldly changing how brands advertise digitally and through social media.

What’s your wish for the future?

For big business to think like small business = better business models from the larger companies in the world.

If you could share a book, film, album, and experience with the future what would each be? Meaning what work would you like to send into the future in hopes that it would enrich it.

Crush It – Gary V (Don’t hate, I love that book)

Ryan Aynes is a Vice President in Ogilvy’s Social@Ogilvy group in New York where he oversees the development and implementation of their social media initiatives.  Prior to working at OGILVY, Ryan was the Director of Social Media at the Brooklyn “search” agency THE JAR GROUP.  Before working at The JAR Group, Ryan spent several years as an entrepreneur, launching his first company in 2003, where he created and distributed commercial ads digitally for clients.  His early adopter experience in social media led him to create one of the first social media networks for nonprofits.  Following his technical work, he created United For Good, a social media consulting firm for nonprofits.

What was it that so impressed you [about Buckminster Fuller's ideas]?

Bucky was fearless in thinking through what needed to change in the world, and he was prescient. Even then, he foresaw the essential issues and global problems we are now becoming concerned about. He was a big thinker, one of the first to correctly diagnose and anticipate not just the condition of the planet at the time but future trends as well. What really excited me was the way he thought about solutions. He believed that most of the issues we were facing were actually design problems which we could address, by science-guided design. When we met he had just launched a new project, the World Design Science Decade, which called for all architectural schools from around the world to collaborate on a ten year program for redesigning the way we used technology, energy, and other resources. Redesign the whole industrial infrastructure in order to “make the world work.” An outrageous, beautiful idea, naïve perhaps, but fantastic!

Tell us something about Fuller’s view of architecture as you understood it?

Fuller had a very different attitude toward architecture than most because he didn’t look at it as primarily an issue of spatial arrangements. He focused on the most efficient use of materials, asking questions like how efficient a building is in energy use, is it
functioning in line with its environment, can it cool or warm itself? All these questions were forerunners to the “Green Architecture” that is emerging today. To him, fundamental principles of science were embodied in the geometry he discovered. He was really experimenting with trying to understand how nature works, and with employing this understanding in the most efficient designs. His conceptual work was driven by the question of how to make the world’s resources function at peak capacity and really serve all of humanity. He was interested in how one could redesign housing to allow for high-quality living for all humans everywhere, which implies comprehensive consideration of resources, production, technology, and finance – all integrated by superior design.

I’m aware that you’ve spoken about sustainability principles. The last I’ve heard there are five of those. Is that correct?

Yes. The origin of that is when I began to play with the idea of establishing the Sustainability Laboratory. I was wondering what would make it different than many other centers or institutes for sustainability that currently exist. One thing that I thought was  missing was a set of coherent principles that define the true meaning of sustainability, as a state. What are the absolutely essential elements, the minimum statements that you can make regarding sustainability, the required conditions without which it can’t be fulfilled no matter how you play with words. If you want to construct a vehicle so you can fly, you had first better understand the principles of aerodynamics. Similarly, if we are serious about implementing the state of sustainability as the universal planetary state, what are the underlying principles that need to be upheld?

I pondered that for a long time and I spent about two years drafting my ideas. I was very unsatisfied with the currently prevailing definition of sustainability, basically the one that was offered by United Nations’ report associated with the Bruntland Commission, a definition that is accepted by most. So, I tried to give the concept a more precise definition and then derive the principles from that.

Sustainability:
A dynamic equilibrium in the processes of interaction between a population and the
carrying capacity of an environment such, that the population develops to express its
full potential without producing irreversible adverse effects on the carrying capacity
of the environment upon which it depends.

Sustainability Principles

The First Principle:
Contain entropy and ensure that the flow of resources, through and within the economy, is as
nearly non-declining as is permitted by physical laws.

The Second Principle:
Adopt an appropriate accounting system, fully aligned with the planet’s ecological processes and
reflecting true, comprehensive biospheric pricing to guide the economy.

The Third Principle:
Ensure that the essential diversity of all forms of life in the Biosphere is maintained.

The Fourth Principle:
Maximize degrees of freedom and potential self-realization of all humans without any individual

The Fifth Principle:  

Recognize the seamless, dynamic continuum of mystery, wisdom, love, energy, and matter that links the outer reaches of the cosmos with our solar system, our planet and its biosphere Including all humans, with our internal metabolic systems And their externalized technology extensions – Embody this recognition in a universal ethics for guiding human actions  

The five principles pertain to the five different levels or domains, almost like chakras, that are important to pay attention to. On one extreme you have the physical domain that deals with issues of energy and matter, all the “stuff.” The second principle deals with the economic domain in the sense of the meaning and creation of wealth. The third domain deals with the principle of life. We are part of a larger, living fabric called the Biosphere and we have to behave as good neighbors to other species. The fourth is the social domain that deals with the guidelines for social behavior. The fifth, which is probably the most critical, is the spiritual domain that really provides the value orientation to everything else that you’re doing.  It’s interesting—in the beginning I only had the first four domains and I felt that something was missing. I was beginning to play with the value or spiritual dimension. Many people that I talked to in trying out those ideas were discouraging this. “If you want leaders in government and business to take you seriously,” they would say, “you cannot talk about spirituality.” It didn’t take long for me to realize that without the spiritual domain the others are just techniques. It is really the spiritual orientation, the underlying value held, which coheres and ties everything together. It serves as a center of gravity for the other four domains, for all of the rest.

That’s how those five principles developed and began to spread on the Internet and so forth. Certainly they’ve been the guiding principles for the work I do and for much of what the Lab is and will be doing. The important thing about those five principles is that they are not single separate things. The five constitute the dimensions of one coherent system. What we tend to do many times is try and focus on problems in one area, not the others. Some people think we need to solve some technology problems and everything will be all right, but if we have a predatory orientation toward the world, that’s how you will use your technology. Going to the other extreme, some believe we need everyone to become spiritual and sit and meditate. That, of course, will not take you too far if you don’t also have the physical infrastructure to sustain the 9 billion people we are soon to have on the planet. You really need all five principles to cohere and create one system, and that’s the biggest challenge of the sustainability transformation. You cannot deal with it in pieces—you have to deal with it as one whole system that is manifested in those five dimensions.

How are you working in the world around the extension of these sustainability principles?

At the moment, I’m working essentially on two levels. One is educational where I do quite a bit of speaking to all kind of audiences. I try to spend as much time as I can with young audiences—university students in different countries mostly. On another level I try to do actual projects. Currently, I am working on a fascinating project in the Negev Desert, in Israel, with a group of local Bedouins. We are creating an actual model of a sustainable desert community, which will be based on the Bedouin tradition and expertise with desert agriculture, but leveraged with the most advanced technology in solar energy, water treatments, silvipasture, and the like. At the end, we’ll have an integrated desert, organic farming operation with livestock, medicinal plants and authentic, native vegetables. The whole site will be designed to deliver zero harmful emissions and every function on the site will be linked, providing an input, to another function, so there will be very little waste. It will be integrated from a sustainability point of view. The social dimension of the sustainability principles will be embodied in the way that the community will be organized. The group is developing a cooperative structure that is very innovative, and completely unique in the context of governance in the Bedouin society, which tends to be male dominated, hierarchical, tribal and clannish.

Questions and answers for this post were taken from two different interviews with Michael Ben-Eli. One with Russ Volckmann for Integral Review and one with Louise Danielle Palmer for the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

Michael Ben-Eli is founder of the Sustainability Laboratory, established in order to develop and demonstrate breakthrough approaches to sustainability practices, expanding prospects and producing positive, life affirming impacts on people and ecosystems in all parts of the world.

An international management consultant, Michael pioneered applications of Systems Thinking and Cybernetics in management and organization. Over the years he worked on synthesizing strategy issues in many parts of the world and in diverse institutional settings, ranging from small high technology firms to multinational enterprises, manufacturing companies, financial institutions, health care and educational organizations, government agencies, NGOs, and international multilateral organizations.

In recent years, he has focused primarily on issues related to sustainability and sustainable development, and has been working to help inspire leaders in business, government, community, and youth accelerate a peaceful transition to a sustainable future.

Dr. Ben-Eli graduated from the Architectural Association in London and later received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Cybernetics at Brunel University, where he studied under Gordon Pask. He was a close associate of R. Buckminster Fuller, with whom he collaborated on projects involving research on advanced structural systems and exploration of issues related to the management of technology and world resources for the advantage of all.