Bucky taught Comprehensive Design at Black Mountain College in 1948 and 1949, a time when he made some crucial developments in his work with geodesics as well as other core concepts of Synergetics. Kenneth Snelson, originally drawn to Black Mountain College by the Bauhaus master painter Josef Albers, found himself enamored by the charismatic approach to problem solving that Bucky brought to the campus. After a year with fuller, Snelson became intrigued by making structures t

I had a sudden realization about halfway through David Abram's magnificent book, The Spell of the Sensuous   (1997). Why didn't anyone teach me that the alphabet is a technology ? I memorized the ABCs so early in life that I never seriously questioned the origin of its symbolism. What are these occult letters - nothing but scribbles on paper (and screens) that designate sounds? There is, indeed, a certain magical effect behind written symbols, which is still conveyed in t

Buckminster Fuller saw Synergetics as the common language between the specialized sciences and the Generalized Principles that they discover. What is the historical context from which Synergetics arose and who did Fuller associate with?

The Rhode Island School of Design hosted a Design Science Symposium in September of 2025 called The Geometry of Uncertainty. Syn-U visited the event as well as other key people in the field of Synergetics and Design Science.

The Rhombic Dodecahedron is referred to as the "spheric" by Buckminster Fuller in Synergetics. In this article, we explore the relationship between the Rhombic Dodecahedron, the IVM, and the Vector Equilibrium.

Synergetics is full of familiar concepts presented in unusual and perplexing ways.  In the opening section [100.01 Scenario of the Child]...

Contradictions are powerful things.  They can cause strong emotions, from surprised bewilderment to stress and anxiety.  Can...

The Halo essay was published in No More Secondhand God (1963). B uckminster Fuller’s essay “ Omnidirectional Halo ” was presented to the...

90th day Celebration and the Fuller Dome in Illinois

Design Considerations for a Regenerative Species We are living through a period of widespread degeneration.  Systems of politics,...

New paper by Dante about Synergetics (Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking) is Buckminster Fuller’s magnum opus. 

This polyhedron has come to be known as a “Bucky Ball” or “buckminsterfullerene” because of Buckminster Fuller’s influence on the scientists

The Isotropic Vector Matrix of Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics and the Octahedron-Tetrahedron relationships within it.

This is a comprehensive list of resources regarding the study of Synergetics, Geometry, Design, the work of Buckminster Fuller and the shape of space.

A triangle is the only polygon that retains its form and will not collapse, it maintains its integrity. A tetrahedron has 4 triangular...