Update: a video created with Adobe After Effects based on the storyboard created in Adobe Illustrator and originally exported to Adobe Photoshop to simulate the envisioned motion design sequence as an animated GIF.
Co-create the BFI 40th Anniversary Celebration!
Hello!
On December 15th at the Gray Area Theatre in San Francisco BFI, habRitual and the Design Science Studio will be producing and hosting the BFI 40th Anniversary!
If you will not be able to be in person there are still ways to contribute :)
Roxi, Bliss and Mark here from the Design Science Studio and habRitual! We are working on curation and coordination for the experience and would love to breathe the dreams of the commUnity to life.
There are many opportunities to contribute to the experience.
We will need a small flock of volunteers to make it all happen in a good way and we look forward to working with you on co-creating an amazing experience.
Feel free to reach out with any questions to connect@designscience.studio
REGISTER HERE ON EVENTBRITE:
Hello! How are you interested in pARTicipating. and co-creating the BFI 40th anniversary? *
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Volunteers: Options to help before, during and after
Submit Art: the Design Science Studio and habRitual will be curating creators from our commUnity to showcase as a part of the 40th anniversary. We'd love to extend this invitation to submit potential art to be displayed digitally (either still or video) into the space. Send us your ideas and we'll be in touch!
Perform: We will be organizing a few surprise performances :) Let us know your ideas!
Other: Let us know what else you might have in mind and we'll be in touch if we can bring it to life.
[ ] Volunteer
[x] Submit Art
[ ] Perform
[ ] Other
Your full name *
Stephen Bau
Why are you excited to pARTicipate?
I love the community that I am connected with in the Buckminster Fuller Institute through Trimtab Space Camp and the Design Science Studio. I am a member of the Trimtab Book Club and I host the World Weavers. I am writing about all things Buckminster Fuller on Substack as creator of the Trimtab and Design Science Studio publications. George Orbelian saw my presentation on a Mental Model for a Living Being to 52 Living Ideas and reached out to me about my model for life, suggesting that my model should be part of the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.
In response to this invitation, I designed a logo for the 40th Anniversary of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and created a storyboard for an animation sequence integrating geometry and the logo.
The model for life that I created has evolved from my work on Mental Models for Human Experience, which has been growing in response to my experiences with the Design Science Studio, culminating in the Co-operating Manual for Being Human at the end of coheART 2. Initiated by a workshop with the Institute for Aliveness on the Winter Solstice of 2022, I have been exploring how we are Growing Senses for Co-Creation, which has turned into a calendar, shifting our perception of time from the quantities of chronos time to the qualitative experience of kairos time. The calendar is a way to relate to time, energy, and matter as mind, heart, and body through senses, spirit, and soul as a way to reconnect to the qualitative experience of being alive.
There are four vertices to this model that are represented by the inner structure of a tetrahedron and the outer structure of the sphere. These structures represent the inner architecture of the self and the outer architecture of physical reality. The mind, heart, body, and self are the four vertices of the tetrahedron, which are connected by the tension and compression of the six edges of the tetrahedron. These six edges represent the tensegrity of life that hold the dynamic equilibrium of the whole.
Bucky said in Synergetics that love is the integral of gravity and radiation. Gravity is the inward compressive and attractive force and radiation is the outward expansive and radiating energy. The dynamic tension of gravity and radiation creates the precessional effect of life and possibility.
Love is metaphysical gravity.
The six relationships are held together by a center of awareness and consciousness, similar to the closest packing of spheres: six around one.
There is an inner essence and an outer expression.
Inner Essence
Inspiration
Interbeing
Intention
Intuition
Intimacy
Integrity
Incarnation
Outer Expression
Syntropy
Synchronicity
Synthesis
Synergy
Synesthesia
Synarchy
Syncretion
Essence is embodied through incarnation in physical matter and form.
Expression finds its fulfillment in syncretion: the dynamic interaction of diversity, complexity, and beauty and the merging of cultures to create new forms of life and creativity. Through syncretion, the merging of physics and metaphysics, the pataphysical possibilities of life and love come into being.
Essence is being. Expression is becoming.
Essence and expression are the ways that all of the elements of life come together to radiate love.
Links of artworks to consider
share whatever links you have submit potential art to be displayed digitally (either still or video) into the space. Send us your ideas and we'll be in touch!
Artwork to consider
submit potential art to be displayed digitally (either still or video) into the space. Send us your ideas and we'll be in touch!