Seventh Annual Summer Workshop in Oswego, NY, 11-12 July 2009
"A Synergetics Sampler" to Celebrate Buckminster Fuller's 114th Birthday
Theme:
A Synergetics Sampler
Description:
The Synergetics Collaborative's
Seventh Annual Summer Workshop in Oswego will celebrate Bucky's 114th
Birthday with a number of threads through Synergetics
and Design Science. This will be a great "warm-up" for
the
major Symposium we are organizing on Design Science in November at RISD.
Included among the distinguished group of individuals that will
guide the program are the following:
Don Richter
Dr. Cheryl Clark
Phil Bishop
Al McMahon
Jim Juczak
Joseph D. Clinton, President of Clinton International Design Consultants;
Founding Member, Synergetics Collaborative
John Belt, Department of Technology SUNY Oswego; President,
Synergetics Collaborative
CJ Fearnley, Executive Director, Synergetics Collaborative
Topics to be covered in the workshop:
The Structure of Thinking
Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio
Autonomous Housing
Design Science
Applied Design Science
Forming a Design Company for a Sustainable Future
The workshop will consist of an interweaving of presentations, open
discussions, a field trip and picnic at Woodhenge's living off the
grid facility and participants' displays. Bring your geometry and
artwork as always!!
When:
Saturday 11 July 2009, 8AM - 10PM
Sunday 12 July 2009, 8AM - 9PM
Where:
SUNY Oswego
Department of Technology, Design Studio Wilber
Hall, Design Studio, Room 350
Oswego, NY 13126-3155
ENTER WILBER HALL under the
skywalk and use the stairs to the third floor
and turn right into the tower. Design studios
are just as you enter the tower, rooms 350 and
352.