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The 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize is awarded to MIT's Smart City Group in Chicago

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Left to right: Andres Sevtsuk, Dimitris Papanikolaou, William Lark Jr., Arthur Petron, Michael Chia-Liang Lin, Charles Guan, Ryan Chin. (Photo by Cassandra Davis)

June 6th, 2009: The second annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize was awarded to MIT's Smart Cities group for their winning project 'Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility on Demand'. The team of seven students received the Omni-Oculi prize sculpture and a check for $100,000. The ceremony at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago included presentations by the winning team, the runner-up project 'Dreaming New Mexico', represented by Kenny Ausubel of the Bioneers, and a panel discussion with 2009 jurors Bill Browning and Edie Farwell moderated by Susan Szenasy of Metropolis Magazine.

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Student team from MIT wins the $100K Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize for their innovative urban mobility system

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems (SPM/MoD), submitted by an interdisciplinary team of students at MIT has been selected as the winner of the prestigious 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The team will receive a $100,000 prize at a conferring ceremony on June 6th, 2009 at 2pm at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago followed by a reception and celebration featuring a presentation by design innovator Bruce Mau.

To learn more about the winner, the runner-up, and the honorable mentions visit: http://challenge.bfi.org

To read all the entries submitted to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, visit the Idea Index.

Entries to the 2009 Challenge published in the Idea Index

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Wondering where breakthrough ideas addressing today's major crises are? Look no further, the entries to the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge are now available for view in the Idea Index, an open-source database of solutions to the world's most pressing problems.

BFI at the Bronx Zoo's Earth Expo

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:10:26 +0000

April 2009, BFI was on site during the first annual Earth Expo at the Bronx Zoo with dozens of other organizations and companies, both local and international, to engage the public with issues of sustainability and conservation. Between distributing information about BFI and The Buckminster Fuller Challenge, we offered visitors a chance to get involved, physically, with Fuller's ideas through the construction of a newspaper geodesic dome.

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BFI's 'Prototype' design and build program featured at events in New York City

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:50:20 +0000

Launched in November 2008, BFI’s Prototype - a program bringing together local artists, designers & architects in the exploration of structure - meets monthly to engage in discussion, design and building new forms.

Prototype was commissioned to create structures for two recent events in New York City, click here to read more...

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