[spectre] Richard Buckminster Fuller's World Game

[Paraflows]

:: Richard Buckminster Fuller's World Game 
:: Symposium 

:: Friday, 14.10.2011, 5pm 
:: Saturday, 15.10.2011, 2pm 

Architekturzentrum Wien, 
Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1 - 1070 Vienna 

admission free 

register at: http://worldgamelab.eventbrite.com 
further details: http:// www.worldgamelab.org 

A cooperation between the Richard Buckminster Fuller Institute - 
Austria, paraflows, the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private 
Foundation, Filmarchiv Austria and the Architekturzentrum Wien. 

:: about RBF and the World Game 

Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was a visionary whose utopias 
have become reality today: a proponent of a networked world as opposed 
to a hierarchic one; an early endorser of the build it yourself 
culture; pioneer of the connection between man and environment. In the 
1930s Buckminster Fuller began to experiment with new ways of 
depicting the planet. This culminated in the geodesic construction or 
the Dymaxion map, which enabled the 3D world to be presented in a 2D 
form with a minimum of distortion. This map enabled a better 
understanding of our 'home' while being a practical tool for 
illustrating distances and interrelationships on our planet plausibly 
and making them easier to understand. It also makes issues relating to 
the distribution of resources easier to address. This series of 
lectures and workshops engages critically with the so-called Dymaxion 
map — an arena for geomapping and games theory, a tool for conveying 
information on the givens and current state of our planet. 


:: Program 

Friday 14.10.2011 

5:00pm / welcome address: Brigitte Eisl, Az W, Monika Pessler, Kiesler 
Foundation, Vienna, Thomas Thurner, Buckminster Fuller 
Institute - Austria 
5:30pm / Enrique Guitart, Buckminster Fuller Institute - Austria, 
introduction: In Passion for the Future 
6:00pm / Gerfried Stocker, Ars Electronica Festival, Datenwelt — 
Weltdaten (Data World — World Data) 
6:45pm / break 
7:00pm / Harald Katzmair, FAS.research, Vernetzte Systeme 
vernetzte Welt (Networked Systems — Networked World) 

Saturday 15.10.2011 

2:00pm / Joachim Krausse, Internationales Kolleg der 
Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie Weimar, 
“A Sense for Significance. Buckminster Fuller's Reading 
of Data, Projections and Prognoses" 
3:45pm / break 
4:00pm / Lightning Talks 
5:00pm / workshop: Sprinting the World Game, assembly 

9:00pm / Book presentation - Mind and Matter. Comparative Approaches towards Complexity
from 10pm / The Buckminster Fuller Insomnia Night: screenings, 
reading, performance 


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Thomas Thurner 
+43 (0)650 9823180 

Buckminster Fuller Institute - Austria 
Hubergasse 2/29 
1160 Wien 

www.worldgamelab.org 
rbfi.austria(at) gmail.com