Future Thinking & Visualizing Possibilities with Curt McNamara

Bucky recommended that we always use an anticipatory mindset: design for a preferred future.
This presentation will cover the basics of future thinking, anticipation, and diagrams that we can use to visualize possibilities.

Welcome to the series "Bucky Inspired Comprehensivity to Understand and Change the World".

Welcome to the series "Bucky Inspired Comprehensivity to Understand and Change the World". This is a collaboration with 52 Living Ideas.

Look at the amazing Schedule of Meetups in the series below:
(All Meetups are on Sundays at 9pm ET unless otherwise specified)

Struppi Pohl on Spherical Thinking and the Way of Spheres - Jan 1, 1pm ET
Thomas Miller on Liberating Modular Building from the yoke of Boxes - Jan 2, 12pm ET
Daniel Ari Friedman on Bucky & William Blake Parallels - Jan 8
Peter Meisen on On Synergy - Jan 15
Jon Brett on TetraMeme - Jan 22
Kirby Urner on Dimension in Synergetics - Jan 29
Curt McNamara on Bucky's Comprehensivity in his Design - Feb 5
Christopher Zelov - Cinematic Bucky Themes - Feb 12
D W Jacobs on Dramaturgical Synergies - Feb 19
Robert Sandusky on Bucky's Design Science & Four onramps - Feb 26
Bucky Lightening Talks: Invitation to talk for 5 minutes - Mar 5
Rupali Sharma on Bucky & Maria Montessori on Education Mar 12
Richard Ramsay on Social Tensegrity - Mar 26

Watch previous Bucky Meetups on YouTube here.

Buckminster Fuller championed a broad array of ideas to help us better understand and change the world. This series of events will engage these ideas and their practitioners to share, nurture, and develop this unique and urgent learning and doing mission to "make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone" as Bucky so famously put it.

Topics will range from the conceptual, scientific, and philosophical to nuts-and-bolts applications to arts and culture.

"Comprehensivity" is a word Buckminster Fuller used in a number of
writings in the 1960s and 1970s. In a series of essays and video explorations, CJ Fearnley has developed the concept into a Bucky-inspired
synthesis. Comprehensivity can be described as the quality of
comprehensive thinking that aspires to be "adequately macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive" by combining all we know in breadth for context and all we know in depth for clarity to improve our effectiveness in understanding and changing the world.

We invite everyone with a interest in learning about and participating
in this work to join us in forming a collaborative community to nourish
and support this important work and its practitioners.

The series will feature presentations by and interviews with
Bucky-inspired practitioners, aficionados, and artists. Some events
will explore works of Bucky, those inspired by or building on Bucky,
or with the same spirit as Bucky.

Please join us.

See: CJ Fearnley's Resources on Collaborating for Comprehensivity here

See the YouTube Playlist on Collaborating for Comprehensivity here

All Meetups on the 52 Living Ideas platform will be recorded, and then posted on YouTube. Feel free to keep your video on or off as you prefer. Watch Past Meetups here.