ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 4
September 28-30, 2012
Asheville, North Carolina

Thematic Focus: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller's Legacy

Co-sponsored by The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the University of North Carolina at Asheville and the UNC Asheville Howerton Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Schedule
Bios + Abstracts
Design Science Day
Looking Forward Exhibition
Buckminster Fuller Play at NC Stage
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Press Release

Keynote Speaker: Allegra Fuller Snyder, daughter of Buckminster Fuller; Director Emerita of the Buckminster Fuller Institute; Professor Emerita of Dance and Dance Ethnology, UCLA

Featured Speaker: Jason McLennan, CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council; author of the Living Building Challenge, winner of the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Featured Speaker: Joseph D. Clinton, President of Clinton International Design Consultants; Synergetics Collaborative; associate of Buckminster Fuller

Featured Speaker: Mel Chin, conceptual visual artist

Featured Speaker: David McConville, media artist; President of the Buckminster Fuller Institute

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, along with the Buckminster Fuller Institute and the University of North Carolina at Asheville, will present a 3-day conference exploring Buckminster Fuller's Legacy, including his forward-thinking work during the two summers he was at Black Mountain College (1948 & 1949), his innovative work in architecture, engineering and design science in the decades after BMC, and the work of those who are carrying his ideas forward into the future. In addition to panels and presentations, the conference will include an experiential Design Science Day held outdoors on the UNC Asheville campus on Saturday, September 29th.

Weekend cost for the conference:
$15 for BMC Museum + Arts Center members and students w/ID
$50 for non-members (includes BMC Museum + Arts Center membership)
Free for UNCA students, faculty & staff
Design Science Day - Free

In conjunction with the conference, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will collaborate with the Buckminster Fuller Institute to present an exhibition that explores the new generation of Fuller-inspired thinkers, artists and problem-solvers via The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an award given annually by BFI to a project that addresses a planetary problem with an elegant, whole systems-based solution. The exhibition will also include some of Fuller's own inventive designs for solutions to the many needs he saw on "Spaceship Earth."