The Telefónica Foundation in collaboration with Smart & Green Design dedicated a small space to the exhibition "Radical Curiosity. In the orbit of Buckminster Fuller" in the third level of the Espacio Fundación Telefónica between September 16, 2020 and on March 14, 2021 in Madrid.

Javier de Paz García photographer take a photo report on this interesting exhibition, in which he raised the need to develop a more balanced future according to the interesting ideas of Richard Buckminster Fuller.

The exhibition invited a journey around the figure of the North American designer, architect, thinker, philosopher and visionary, inviting us to rethink the future and imagine a world guided by more sustainable principles.
To design the exhibition space for the exhibition "Radical Curiosity. In the orbit of Buckminster Fuller" the architecture studio Smart & Green Design used a mesh capable of dividing the space and organizing the routes of the exhibition, which was projected on the ground of the room and was made up of the twenty triangles of the icosahedron in which Buckminster Fuller represented his famous Dymaxion Map.

The exhibition also included proposals from contemporary and contemporary artists who applied their ideas in architecture, art, and design. A group of characters among which we can include architects like Abeer Seikaly, Norman Foster and Chuck Hoberman, designers Neri Oxman and Joris Laarman, or artists Olafur Eliasson, Ruth Asawa, and Tomáš Libertíny.
 

Description of project by Smart & Green Design

For some, Fuller was the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century. Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) dedicated his life to finding solutions that would ensure that the world worked better for everybody. Through his thinking, he was able to anticipate some of the major crises of the 20th century surprisingly accurately.

A virtually unclassifiable visionary and investigator, Fuller created a seemingly never-ending body of work that crossed over disciplines such as architecture, engineering, philosophy and education, through a vision of design that was capable of changing the world. From questions of mobility and housing to education and the use of big data, his thinking included a number of questions that Covid-19 has put at the very heart of the world’s agenda.

The exhibition  examines Fuller from the perspective of the reality of 2020, at a confused and uncertain time in which we are experiencing a series of the systemic crises that Fuller considered for over sixty years.

The exhibition design

Fuller studied the rules of geometry obsessively in order to put his ideas into practice. One figure was returned to again and again in this system of thought; the triangle. Following his lead, the spatial design proposal was developed based on this element.

The layout of the exhibition areas is the result of dialogue between the Dymaxion Map and the space. The twenty triangles of the icosahedron making up this original representation of the Earth are unfolded to generate a mesh that is used to divide up the space and construct all the museological devices. This triangular mesh is the basis of a large number of Fuller’s projects including the geodesic domes, the 4D and Dymaxion Houses, and his three-dimensional book, the Tetrascroll, in which the universe’s geometry is explained using the tetrahedron.
  
Dymaxion Chronofile Installation design

In 1917, at the age of twenty-two, Fuller decided to embark on an experiment that was to last until his death in 1983, in which he himself was the guinea pig. It consisted of creating an archive as detailed as possible of the life of a person born in 1895, which chronicled the world´s trans¬formation over the course of the new century.

Every day he collected and archived any personal docu¬ment pertaining to his activities that had passed through his hands. Conserved at Stanford University, the 145,000 personal documents that comprises the Dymaxion Chronofile make Richard Buckminster Fuller’s life one of the best documented in history.

To express the magnitude of this archive, we have designed a triangular rear proyected immersive tunnel showing a selection of these documents.

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Smart & Green Design.- Fernando Muñoz.
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Verónica Seco, Sergio Vidanes, John López, Sergi Opisso.
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Flooring systems.- Forbo Linoleum Series. Green panel used in walls and showcases.- Finsa. Large format canvas printing.- Boomerang graphics. LED lighting.- Iguzzini. VOC Free paints.- Valentine. Projection screens.- Peroni. Technology.- Sony.
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900 sqm.
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September 2020 - March 2021.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanity, Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts.”

Fuller did not limit himself to one field but worked as a 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist' to solve global problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation, education, energy, ecological destruction, and poverty. Throughout the course of his life Fuller held 28 patents, authored 28 books, received 47 honorary degrees. And while his most well-known artifact, the geodesic dome, has been produced over 300,000 times worldwide, Fuller's true impact on the world today can be found in his continued influence upon generations of designers, architects, scientists and artists working to create a more sustainable planet.
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Smart & Green Design is specialized in the design of exhibitions, museums and ephemeral events based on sustainable criteria.

The team is coordinated by Fernando Muñoz, graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2002 and MSc in Sustainable Building at Oxford Brookes University in 2014. Lecturer at IED Madrid (Istituto Europeo di Design) in the professional degree of Interior Design.

Smart & Green Design has developed an assessment and design methodology to reduce the environmental impact of temporary exhibitions, which has been shortlisted for the President´s Awards for Research 2015 launched by The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). We work as green consultant for museums and galleries to help them implement Sustainability policies and strategies.

Smart & Green Design is also actively involved in changing the ways that the world of Art and Culture is perceived by the Great Audience, designing hibrid Art & Brand “cultural experiences”.
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