The Fuller World [NET Series] (1963)

Three show that Bucky made for National Educational Television, Ann Arbor, Michigan in December 1963.


The Fuller World
Episode 1:  Design Scientist
Episode 2:  The Sum Of It's Parts
Episode 3:  Futuretense


↓

NPR Interview (1983)

Interviewed by Alex Van Oss, National Public Radio, Washington, D.C (1983)

↓

Mind Body Spirit Festival, San Francisco, California (1983)

R. Buckminster Fuller speaking at the Mind-Body-Spirit Festival, San Francisco, California, March 25th 1983.

↓

The Final Message (1983)

The following is a final message to his fellow crew members on board of Spaceship Earth.

MP3

BBC Great Lives - Audio Biography (2010)

Matthew Parris hosts, joined by futurist and business strategist, Hardin Tibbs, as they debate the charge that if Buckminster Fuller - who had a molecule named after him, for its resemblance to his geodesic domes - really was the Twentieth Century's answer to Leonardo da Vinci, then why is he so little known about today? A man, John Lloyd argues, who preached environmentalism before the term was coined, so in advance of his times, but yet whose time has come today.

Tue 27 April 2010 - BBC Radio 4

MP3

Audio Arts: Volume 2 No.1 (1974)

Click images to enlarge

Buckminster Fuller at Art Net (November, 1974)

&

Joseph Beuys at the Institute of Contemporary Art (November, 1974)

MP3

Portland Community College (1973)

Buckminster Fuller gave a long speech at the dedication of a new building at Portland Community College on January 8th 1973. It was recorded on Scotch 203 quarter inch reel tape. The three MP3 files contain most of the speech as digitized from the tape, there are minute-long gaps where the tape was changed and restarted.

MP3

Everything I Know (1975)

During the last two weeks of January 1975 Buckminster Fuller gave an extraordinary series of lectures concerning his entire life's work. These thinking out loud lectures span 42 hours and examine in depth all of Fuller's major inventions and discoveries from the 1927 Dymaxion house, car and bathroom, through the Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures, as well as the contents of Synergetics. Autobiographical in parts, Fuller recounts his own personal history in the context of the history of science and industrialization.

The stories behind his Dymaxion car, geodesic domes, World Game and integration of science and humanism are lucidly communicated with continuous reference to his synergetic geometry. Permeating the entire series is his unique comprehensive design approach to solving the problems of the world. Some of the topics Fuller covered in this wide ranging discourse include: architecture, design, philosophy, education, mathematics, geometry, cartography, economics, history, structure, industry, housing and engineering.

Here's the full 42 hours of audio.

Session 01 of 12 - [170 tracks (3 hrs-3 min-44 sec)]

Session 02 of 12 - [161 tracks (3 hrs-1 min-35 sec)]

Session 03 of 12 - [180 tracks (3 hrs-10 min-26 sec)]

Session 04 of 12 - [181 tracks (3 hrs-32 min-53 sec)]

Session 05 of 12 - [125 tracks (2 hrs-8 min-57 sec)]

Session 06 of 12 - [199 tracks (3 hrs-24 min-15 sec)]

Session 07 of 12 - [201 tracks (3 hrs-20 min-6 sec)]

Session 08 of 12 - [193 tracks (3 hrs-41 min-41 sec)]

Session 09 of 12 - [240 tracks (3 hrs-44 min-42 sec)]

Session 10 of 12 - [229 tracks (4 hrs-8 min-31 sec)]

Session 11 of 12 - [214 tracks (3 hrs-37 min-29 sec)]

Session 12 of 12 - [177 tracks (4 hrs-43 min-40 sec)]

Transcripts

New Dimensions Radio (1980)

Download Audio

Buckminster Fuller In Conversation with Michael Toms on New Dimensions Radio. 

(5th May,1981)