RE-VIEWING BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 4: Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy: a weekend gathering of scholars, practitioners and artists coming to Asheville to discuss, present and experience topics and workshops related to the forward-thinking ideas of Buckminster Fuller with some presentations addressing other topics related to Black Mountain College.
Unless otherwise specified, conference activities and presentations will take place on the UNC Asheville campus.
Friday, Sept. 28
2:30 pm
Carmichael Hall Lobby
Registration opens
Featured Speaker Session 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Humanities Lecture Hall
Welcome & Introduction: Brian Butler
3:30 – Mary Emma Harris – Domes, Disciples, and Dramatic Interventions: Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College
4:00 – Heather South – Western Regional Archives: History with a View
4:30 – CJ Fearnley – Education Automation Now and in the Future
Featured Speaker 5:15 – 6:00 pm
Lipinsky Auditorium
Welcome & Introduction: Brian Butler
David McConville – We Are The 100%
Sponsored by Samsel Architects
Featured Speaker 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Lipinsky Auditorium
Introduction: Kirk Bergstrom
Jason McLennan – Designing a Better Future: The Living Building Challenge
Sponsored by Advantage West/Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council; the UNC Asheville Howerton Distinguished Professor in the Humanities; Western North Carolina Green Building Council
8:00 – 9:30 pm
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center – 56 Broadway in downtown Asheville
Reception for the exhibition Looking Forward at Buckminster Fuller’s Legacy
Saturday, Sept. 29
8:00 am
Carmichael Hall Lobby
Coffee, Bagels and Muffins
I. Concurrent Sessions 9:00 – 10:30 am
Carmichael Room 102
9:00 – Judith Belt – Connections: people, places, and things through nature
9:30 – Thomas Newsome – Fuller and the Egyptian Tree of Life
10:00 – JenJoy Roybal – Bucky in Bushwick: Actualizing Black Mountain College in the age of Occupy
Carmichael Room 131
9:00 – Jonathan Fisher: Probing the Limits of Modernism: R. Buckminster Fuller’s Educational Philosophy and Black Mountain Progressivism
9:30 – Siu Challons-Lipton & Richard Emanuel: Fully Awake? Fully Connected? The need for a Black Mountain Education
10:00 – Chris Moffett & Blake Seidenshaw: Buckminster Fuller and Black Mountain College, Allowing for Education as Precessional, Precession as Educational, and Educating for Precession
Humanities Lecture Hall
10:00 – Myrna Pronchuk: Aural ReGeneration
II. Concurrent Sessions 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Carmichael Room 102
11:00 – Richard Cappuccio & David Gorman: Domicile – Practical Realities of Building and Living in a Geodesic Dome
11:30 – Mark Sloan:Pulse Dome Project – Art & Design by Don ZanFagna
12:00 – Abigail Wood – All at Once: The Geodesic Relationship Between Kurt Vonnegut and His Audience
Carmichael Room 131
11:00 – David Silver – The Farm at Black Mountain College
11:30 – Nick Boone – The Problem of Olson’s Didacticsm
12:00 – Stephen Lane – Re-Considering Art and Architecture at the 798 Art Site in Bejing
Carmichael Room 132
11:00 – Amy Leidtke – A True Story of Nature-Inspired Design Innovation
Humanities Lecture Hall
12:00 – Ann Dunn – Bucky, A Ballet in Four Sections
Lunch Break 12:30 – 1:30 pm
III. Concurrent Sessions 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Carmichael Room 102
1:30 – Jann Rosen-Queralt – Art Integrated Social Spaces for Infrastructure Projects: Brightwater, an extraordinary union of art, design, science, ecology, and community
2:00 – John McClain – It is not Architecture. It is only Structure: Philip Johnson’s Critique of Buckminster Fuller as “Architect”
2:30 – Crawford Murphy – Technology and Industry Aligned with Global Warming Reversal
Carmichael Room 131
1:30 – Phillip Moore – The Upland Hills School: Every child is a genius
2:00 – Elizabeth Towers – From the Whole to the Part: A Fuller Community
2:30 – Christina Vagt – Media Actors: Cosmology and Globalization by Richard Buckminster Fuller
Carmichael Room 132
1:30 – Anthony Weston – WWBD (What Would Bucky Do?)
Humanities Lecture Hall
1:30 – Nini Ayach – The Dymaxion Theatre
Featured Speaker 3:15- 4:15 pm
Humanities Lecture Hall
Introduction: Brian Butler
Mel Chin: CASH MONEY
Sponsored by Charlotte Street Computers
IV. Concurrent Sessions 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Carmichael Room 102
4:30 – Tom Myers – Tensegrity and Human Structure
5:00 – Waldemor Bober – Shaping Irregular Bar Structures: Analysis of a Model
5:30 – C. A. Debelius & D. Jason Miller – Structural Paradigms & Vacation Homes: Prefabricated Translations of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion Vision
Carmichael Room 131
4:30 – Frank Neussle – The Tetra: An Organizational Design to Foster Group Wisdom
5:00 – Dave Peifer – The Sciences at Black Mountain College
5:30 – Jim Egan – Synergetic Geometry and Syndex Number Rhythms
Carmichael Room 132
4:30 – Ted Pope – A Brief History of Bowls
5:00 – Tom Murphy – The Cyborg’s Dichotomous Shifts in Edward Don’s Slinger
5:30 – Steve Lansford – Thoughtland
Humanities Lecture Hall
5:00 – Ben Mack – Who else is interested in the tricks of magicians? (a tribute to Bucky)
Reception 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Carmichael Hall Lobby
Sponsored by the Green Restaurants of AIR (Asheville Independent Restaurants)
Keynote Address 7:15 – 8:15 pm
Humanities Lecture Hall
Introduction – Jane Fernandes, UNC Asheville Provost
Allegra Fuller Snyder – Black Mountain: The Start of a Critical Path
Sponsored by the Green Restaurants of AIR (Asheville Independent Restaurants)
Design Science Day: Saturday, Sept. 29 Noon – 6:00 pm
Outdoors on the A.C. Reynolds Green
(behind UNCA’s Ramsey Library)
Martin Brennan: 12 Noon to 6:00 pm Ongoing Display and Activities
How Nature Builds
Kurt Przybilla: 12:00 Noon to 6:00 pm Ongoing
Large Bamboo Dome Demo Model & Hands-On Introduction to Synergetics 101
Geometry of Nature: 12 Noon – 5:00 pm Ongoing
Marnie Muller and Friends: Exploring 3-D Geometric Models with Soap Bubbles!
Aboard Spaceship Earth: 12 Noon – 5:00 pm Ongoing
Mark Hanf and Friends with Special Guest Alexandra May: Exploring Bucky’s Big World Map with Aboard Spaceship Earth Global Studies Kit
Janell Kapoor with Kleiwerks International: 12 Noon – 5:00 pm ongoing
Hands-On Building from Place: Natural Sculpting with local Clay, Sand and Straw
Dick Esterle: 12 Noon, 1:00pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm and Ongoing Sculpture
Space Chips, Nobbly Wobbly Balls & The Amazing Geometry Machine
Eric Heller: 12 Noon, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm and Ongoing Sculpture
Modeling Polyhedra and Related Structures with KLYP STYX
Terry Ward: 12 Noon, 2:00 pm & 4:00 pm
Sacred Geometry Drawing: A Hands-On Approach to Discovering the World Around You
Jane Weaver: 12:15 pm, 1:15 pm & 2:00 pm (30 – 45 minutes per session)
Projective Geometry Drawing: Encounter with the Infinite
Monika Gross: 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm
Biotensegrity and the Alexander Technique
Vandorn Hinnant: 1:00 pm, 2:30 pm & 4:00 pm
An Encounter with Beauty: Discovering the Mandala Through the Geometry of Life – Drawing Workshop
Joseph D. Clinton: 1:00 & 3:00 pm (30 – 45 min. workshop)
The Black Mountain College Dance of the “Jitterbug” Update
Ian Riddell: 3:00 – 5:00 pm ongoing
Hands-on Geometry with ZOMETOOLS
Indoors/New Hall Room 118
Bradford Hansen-Smith: 1:00 – 3:00 pm & 3:30 – 5:30 pm (two 2-hour workshops)
WHOLEMOVEMENT: Folding Circles
Sunday, Sept. 30
V. Concurrent Sessions 9:00 – 10:30 am
Carmichael Room 102
9:00 – Andrew Frank & Tommy Poole-Frank – Explorations of Synergetic and Other Models for Educational Purposes
10:00 – CJ Fearnley – Synergetics and Model Thinking
Carmichael Room 131
9:00 – Peter Holyland – Musical Tone Organization and Display using the Vector Equilibrium
9:30 – Mark Hanf – Earthships and Spaceship Earth: Exploring Synergetic and Sustainable Architecture
10:00 – Dick Esterle – Tetrahedron discovers the Amazing Geometry Machine and goes Klackeroo – a precessional progression of a twisted idea
Carmichael Room 132
9:00 – Kurt Przybilla – Bucky’s Comprehensive Universe: Synergetics in Principle and Practice
10:00 – C.A. Debelius & D. Jason Miller – Design Innovation: Thought on Bicycle Wheels, Wings and Three Large Tensegrity Structures
Humanities Lecture Hall
10:00 – Marnie Muller – Synergetic Geometry and the Art of Movement
Featured Speaker 11:00 am – 12:00 noon
Humanities Lecture Hall
Introduction: Marnie Muller
Joseph D. Clinton – Buckminster Fuller’s Spring Waters Began to Flow
VI. Sunday Afternoon Events
2:00 (carpools depart UNCA at 1:30) – Tour of BMC Lake Eden Campus $10 per person
