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Sunday, 6 July 2008 EST
Sixth Summer Workshop: Geodesic Structures: Build a Dome for Bucky's Birthday Oswego, NY July 2008 Join the SNEC mailing list (Enter your e-mail address): |
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Tom Miller's Geneology of Polyhedra made from paperboard at the SNEC
Workshop on StructureOswego, NY, July 2005 |
The Synergetics Collaborative (SNEC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together a diverse group of people with an interest in Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics in face-to-face workshops, symposia, seminars, pow-wows, and other meetings to educate and support research and understanding of the many facets of Synergetics, its methods and principles. Our public meetings are open to anybody who wants to learn more about Synergetics. Please join the primary SNEC mailing list to receive announcements of all SNEC meetings and other news relating to Synergetics and Buckminster Fuller. To contribute to the planning of SNEC events and guiding the development of the SNEC organization, Please subscribe at the mailing list SNEC-planning. We have recently received (March 2007) a letter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) apprising us that our application for 501(c)(3) exemption status has been approved. Some of the legal documents that we are required to make available for public inspection are available through this link.. See IRS Publication 557 for details about the government rules for tax-exempt organizations. Subject to those rules, you may make a tax deductible contribution to the Synergetics Collaborative by mailing a check to Synergetics Collaborative
Synergetics is the system of comprehensive thinking which R. Buckminster Fuller introduced and began to formulate. Synergetics is multi-faceted: it involves geometric modeling, exploring inter-relationships in the facts of experience and the process of thinking. Synergetics endeavors to identify and understand the methods that Nature actually employs in coordinating Universe (both physically and metaphysically). Synergetics provides a comprehensive method and a philosophy for problem-solving and design and therefore has applications in all areas of human endeavor. 
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Synergetic geometry embraces all the qualities of experience, all aspects
of being.
Synergetics, in the broadest terms, is the study of spatial complexity, and as
such is an inherently comprehensive discipline. ... Experience
with synergetics encourages a new way of approaching and solving problems.
Its emphasis on visual and spatial phenomena combined with Fuller's wholistic
approach fosters the kind of lateral thinking which so often leads to creative
breakthroughs. More information about Synergetics can be found in Buckminster Fuller's magnum opus Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, CJ Fearnley's essay Reading Synergetics: Some Tips can help readers wade through Fuller's voluminous text, the BFI's Synergetics resource, the Synergetics section of the R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ, the book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller by Amy Edmondson --- Full Text On-Line, and Kirby Urner's Synergetics on the Web.
SNEC maintains a private, moderated mailing list to coordinate and announce meetings. An archive of all posts to the list is publically available at http://snec.synergeticists.org/pipermail/snec/. For public, Internet discussions on Buckminster Fuller's work, the following options are available:
The Genesis of SNEC, as for many phenomena in Universe, was the confluence of many factors. One thread was Russell Chu's move to Falls Church, VA. Another has been Joe Clinton's retirement and more visible return to Synergetics issues. Another has been the geometrical studies of CJ Fearnley and Jeannie Moberly. Another was the meeting of Fearnley, Moberly, Clinton, Marvin Solit, and David Lovler at the 2002 Bridges: Mathematical Connections In Art, Music, And Science Conference ["Conference Report: Bridges 2002", Nexus Network Journal, vol. 5 no. 1 (Spring 2003), http://www.nexusjournal.com/conf_reps_v5n1-Bier.html]. Kirby Urner provided a critical link by suggesting to CJ Fearnley that he contact Russell Chu which led directly to the meeting on August 24th, 2002, in Upper Darby, PA. The second (private) SNEC meeting was held on the 5th and 6th of October 2002 in Falls Church, VA. Originally we intended the meeting to be the group that met in Upper Darby plus Ed Applewhite. But 12 people were physically present coming from as far away as Japan, California, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, plus John Graham joined via the Internet (call it "12 around one" or a Vector Equilibrium as a Synergeticist might say). We realized that we had found an unfulfilled need in Universe and immediately set about to organize the first public SNEC meeting which was held during the weekend of January 25 and 26, 2003 in Tivoli, NY. Since then SNEC has been holding yearly workshops in Oswego, NY and a major Symposium every year or two. Recently we organized as an unincorporated association and held our first meeting of the Board of Directors. |
2006Workshop on "Applied Synergetics: Living Structures" on 12-13 August 2006 in Oswego, NY.2005Workshop on "Structure" on 23-24 July 2005 in Oswego, NY.2004Workshop on "Tensegrity Structures" on 24-25 July 2004 in Oswego, NY.Symposium on "Cosmic Fishing: Exploring Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics" on 20-21 March 2004 in Washington, DC.2003Program on 30-31 October 2003 in Oswego, New York.Workshop on "Geodesic Structures" on 28-29 June 2003 in Oswego, New York.Symposium on "A Fuller Explanation" on 25-26 January 2003 in Tivoli, New York.2002Pow-Wow on 5-6 October 2002 in Falls Church, Virginia.Pre-SNEC Meeting on 24 August 2002 in Upper Darby, PA.
Marvin Solit's Heirarchy of Polyvertexia (UPDATED 8Nov2004; PDF). Bonnie DeVarco's The Documentarian's Documentarian - A Tribute to E.J.Applewhite (Text) (MS Word). Yasushi Kajikawa's paper Growing Icosahedra (PDF).
Bridges 2007 Donostia: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture.International Symmetry Association (ISA).ISIS-Symmetry: International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry.ASCI: Art & Science Collaborations, Inc..Nexus 2008: the seventh international interdisciplinary conference for architecture and mathematics, to take place 23-25 June 2008 in sunny San Diego, California..ISAMA: The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture. Sixth Interdisciplinary Conference of ISAMA: College Station, Texas, May 18-21, 2007Natural Philosophy Alliance (NPA)International Association for Shell and Spacial Structures (IASS)Golden Matrix© WorkshopsFor interested persons, I will be holding workshops on GM, in which we can use my library of models and also build others. I have a good supply of Zometool equipment on hand, but I recommend bringing your own, if possible. There will be some kits available here for purchase. When I receive indications of interest, I will set dates for the workshops, and let responders know details.
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