The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

We will explore the Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller as disclosed in his 1969 book "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Bucky's Comprehensive Thinking was an inspiration for the "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" initiative which led to Comprehensivist Wednesdays. We will learn more about how Bucky's Comprehensive Thinking, his "comprehensivity", comprehensivism, and Comprehensivist Wednesdays are related.

I have written a brief of the book to help participants focus on the main aspects we will explore. You can read it at https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2020/10/the-comprehensive-thinking-of-r-buckminster-fuller/

That resource also includes some commentary on comprehensivism as context for our topic and some advice for readers of the book.

To read the book on-line here are two options:

A 44 page PDF is at http://designsciencelab.com/resources/OperatingManual_BF.pdf

A web-based copy is at https://web.archive.org/web/20041028062223/http://www.futurehi.net/docs/OperatingManual.html

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Operating_Manual_for_Spaceship_Earth.jpg

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

The first, introductory, event from "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjwTy6pGkNA

The full archive of videos from the series can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2cgfSPqwbnXu8e3Lcq7W8w7

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

To see all forthcoming "Comprehensivist Wednesdays" events, look at the Wednesday events on the "52 Living Ideas" calendar: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas/events/calendar/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)‬

52 Living Ideas records Comprehensivist Wednesdays events and posts them on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch all their past Meetups at: https://www.youtube.com/c/52LivingIdeas?sub_confirmation=1