Buckminster Fuller coined the term "tensegrity" to describe a novel building technique discovered by Kenneth Snelson and Karlis Johansons.

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.

90th day Celebration and the Fuller Dome in Illinois

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...

The 31 great circles of the Icosahedron is a foundational model in Synergetics and nature's coordinate system.

The Cuboctahedron (Vector Equilibrium) is a geometric model that Fuller talks about extensively in Synergetics 1 & 2.

Sphere packing 12 unit-radius spheres around a nucleus will produce a geometric shape that Buckminster Fuller named the Vector Equilibrium.