Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI)

BFI is dedicated to the realization of R. Buckminster Fuller’s vision of a world that works for 100% of humanity without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone, by means of a design science revolution. Fifty years since Fuller foresaw design science as the key to humanity’s success, the revolution is well underway. It can be seen in the propagation of social enterprise, impact investing, design thinking, systems thinking, the sharing economy, open science, regenerative design, biophilic design, machine learning, and the circular economy (among countless other social trends).

And yet, there is still so much work to do. Realizing Fuller’s vision requires dramatic paradigm shifts that are yet to fully take hold: from win-lose to win-win, from separation to interconnectedness, from scarcity to abundance, from reductionism to comprehensiveness, and from competition to cooperation. It requires global adoption of new ways of thinking and doing: seeing the whole instead of its parts, embracing uncertainty, championing experimentation and learning, and exploratory vs. linear modes of execution.

BFI seeks to further Fuller’s work by accelerating the design science revolution; inspiring and supporting a new generation of design science pioneers who are leading the transition from an extractive to a regenerative global economy.