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A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problemsA self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring neither plumbing nor sewage. Yet in spite of his brilliant mind and life-long devotion to serving mankind, Fuller's expansive ideas were often dismissed, and have faded from public memory since his death. You Belong to the Universe documents Fuller's six-decade quest to "make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity." Critic and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats sets out to revive Fuller's unconventional practice of comprehensive anticipatory design, placing Fuller's philosophy in a modern context and dispelling much of the mythology surrounding Fuller's life.
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Jonathon Keats is a critic, journalist, novelist and artist. He is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine, writes a weekly art column for Forbes.com, and has contributed art criticism to Art & Antiques, Art + Auction, Art in America, and Salon.com. His writing on the arts and sciences has also appeared in Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is most recently the author of Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age, published by Oxford University Press in 2013, and Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, published by OUP in 2011. His fiction includes The Book of the Unknown, published by Random House, awarded the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal in 2010. His conceptual art has been exhibited at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, and the Wellcome Collection. [Photo: Jen Dessinger]
