Buckminster Fuller Challenge Jurors Selected

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is pleased to announce the selection of five of the seven jurors for the first Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an international design science challenge which seeks to confer a prize of $100,000 to a single winning solution.

Prize monies will be awarded in June 2008 to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth's ecological integrity.

"I am deeply excited by the extraordinary group of jurors that has come together for the 2007/2008 Challenge.

I am looking forward with equal anticipation to the quality of the proposals themselves," said Allegra Fuller Snyder, Fuller's daughter and Chairwoman of the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Board of Directors.

"I only wish my father were still with us, to work with this group of what he would call 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientists.' I truly believe the results of this Challenge will herald a critical breakthrough."

Inspired by the life and work of visionary 20th Century futurist and global thinker, R. Buckminster Fuller, The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks solutions that epitomize what Fuller called the trimtab principle.