Looking For Speakers for Upcoming Buckminster Fuller Event

November 24, 2018 4:05 PM

I am producing a TED-like event on Buckminster Fuller in Spring, 2019. The theme is "The Confluencing Influence of Buckminster Fuller." I am now in the process of looking Bucky-oriented speakers for this event. Who else could I invite? Speakers contacted so far listed inside:

Jonathon Keats - author, "You Belong To Universe"
Howard J. Brown - founder, dMass
Victoria Vesna - digital and nano-artist
Amy Edmondson - Harvard Professor and Fuller protege
Thomas Zung of Studio Zung - Architectural Partner w/ Fuller
Trevor Blake - Fuller scholar
Amanda Ravenhill - Executive Director of Buckminster Fuller Institute

The event will be taking place in Los Angeles. The speakers do not have to be closely associated with Fuller. I would like them to be well-versed in Fuller influenced topics such as Buckyballs, Synergetic Geometry, Triton City ... and their influence today.

posted by goalyeehah to Media & Arts (5 answers total)

What about anywhere where his work is on display? I'm thinking the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, which has one of the Dymaxion Homes, or the Biosphere in Montreal?

Have you asked any of the speakers if there are others they'd like to hear/interface with?
posted by trampoliningisfun at 6:19 PM on November 24, 2018

Gregg Fleishman is often citied as a geometrically oriented architect/artist inspired by Fuller.

Chip Lord would be a great choice as well.
posted by q*ben at 6:59 PM on November 24, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Trampoliningisfun, I asked for recommendations along with their invitations.
posted by goalyeehah at 7:44 PM on November 24, 2018

How about his daughter Allegra Fuller Snyder?
posted by mareli at 4:28 AM on November 25, 2018

Alan Hess is an architect and architectural historian who has written and presented extensively on mid-century Modern architecture and architects. While he might not be the exact person you want to invite, he is Cali-based and might be able to make suggestions.

Also seconding contacting The Henry Ford...they have excellent researchers and archivists there.
posted by Preserver at 10:05 AM on November 25, 2018