Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
United States of America
San Francisco, CA
Overview
Details
Volunteer
BFI is always looking for energetic and talented volunteers to help us with various tasks and projects and bolster their CVs in the process! If you are interested in volunteering your time and ideas through a stint at BFI, please contact us so that we can keep you updated on upcoming events and opportunities. Virtual support opportunities available.
In your email, please include your availability, interest in becoming involved with BFI, your resume, and any specific skills you would be able to contribute as part of our team.
About BFI
Since 1983, BFI has served the international network of Fuller-inspired innovators through the maintenance of a comprehensive Information Clearinghouse on R.B Fuller, including a detailed inventory of the practices and principles informing Fuller’s approach to design innovation; articles featuring contemporary applications of Fuller’s approach published in BFI’s website, monthly email newsletter, and on-line books; audio and video archives; and Dymaxion Artifacts, BFI’s online store featuring educational tools.
What We Do
BFI is dedicated to the realization of R. Buckminster Fuller’s vision of a world that works for 100% of humanity without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone, by means of a design science revolution. Fifty years since Fuller foresaw design science as the key to humanity’s success, the revolution is well underway. It can be seen in the propagation of social enterprise, impact investing, design thinking, systems thinking, the sharing economy, open science, regenerative design, biophilic design, machine learning, and the circular economy (among countless other social trends).
And yet, there is still so much work to do. Realizing Fuller’s vision requires dramatic paradigm shifts that are yet to fully take hold: from win-lose to win-win, from separation to interconnectedness, from scarcity to abundance, from reductionism to comprehensiveness, and from competition to cooperation. It requires global adoption of new ways of thinking and doing: seeing the whole instead of its parts, embracing uncertainty, championing experimentation and learning, and exploratory vs. linear modes of execution.
BFI seeks to further Fuller’s work by accelerating the design science revolution; inspiring and supporting a new generation of design science pioneers who are leading the transition from an extractive to a regenerative global economy.
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Eligibility
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Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
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Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
