Key Success Factors

First, we must understand the Challenge Award. Below is an overview.

August 3, 2011 NEW YORK CITY — The Buckminster Fuller Institute announces the Call for Entries to the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Named "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award" by Metropolis Magazine, it is the annual global competition recognizing bold, visionary, tangible initiatives that take a comprehensive, anticipatory, design science approach to radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. As part of a rigorous review process a distinguished jury selects a winner and awards the $100,000 prize.

While the application consist of only ten questions and the submittal of six images, 2010 juror and internationally reknowned design pioneer, John Thackara explains, "No other public design competition that I know comes even close to being this demanding for applicants, nor so thoroughly managed. The Challenge is a long way from the business as usual of mainstream design and its frothy competitions."

"We're looking for solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road— integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues. Our entry criteria is deeply inspired by what Fuller termed comprehensive anticipatory design science— an approach we feel holds an important key to the design of strategies aimed at having a transformative effect on the system as a whole. We are very grateful for the recognition the prize recipients have received to date and hope this will lead to the greater understanding and wide-spread application of the whole systems, design science approach we are championing." said Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

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"There is no other competition like the Buckminster Fuller Challenge," said Jonathan Katz, Chairman of Blue Ventures' board of trustees, of the 2011 winning team, "With the help of this award, we are now expanding our work and replicating our projects around the world to demonstrate how nature and human well-being are inextricably linked."

The deadline is Monday, October 24, 2011, 5pm EST.

Learn more about how to enter and download an application here: How To Enter

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After decades of tracking world resources, innovations in science and technology, and human needs, Fuller asserted that options exist to successfully surmount the crises of unprecedented scope and complexity facing all humanity— he issued an urgent call for a design science revolution to make the world work for all. Answering this call is what the Buckmnster Fuller challenge is all about.

The Challenge is sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute, which is accelerating the development and deployment of whole-systems solutions that demonstrate the potential to solve some of the world's most significant challenges. Buckminster Fuller, regarded by many as the father of sustainability and the green movement, believed man could "make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone." That is what the Challenge is all about.

"We are coming to an era the likes of which we've never seen before, we're in the whitewaters of human history. We don't know what lies ahead. Bucky Fuller's ideas of design are at the core of any set of solutions that will take us to calmer waters."— David Orr, 2011 Challenge Juror.

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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge originated in 2007 and awards $100,000 annually. Support for the annual Challenge competition has been provided by The Halloran Philanthropies, The Atwater Kent Foundation, The Civil Society Institute, The James Dyson Foundation, The Highfield Foundation, The Jewish Communal Fund, and the members of The Buckminster Fuller Institute.

Statement from the Buckminster Fuller Insitute about the Challenge: http://challenge.bfi.org/bfi_statement

Founded in 1983 and headquartered in New York, The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to accelerating the development and deployment of solutions which radically advance human well being and the health of our planet's ecosystems. BFI aims to deeply influence the ascendance of a new generation of design-science pioneers who are leading the creation of an abundant and restorative world economy that benefits all humanity. BFI's programs combine unique insight into global trends and local needs with a comprehensive approach to design. BFI encourages participants to conceive and apply transformative strategies based on a crucial synthesis of whole systems thinking, Nature's fundamental principles, and an ethically driven worldview. By facilitating convergence across the disciplines of art, science, design and technology, BFI's work extends the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. For further information visit http://www.bfi.org

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Important Links

- The deadline for entries is 5pm (Eastern Standard Time) on MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2011.

- To download the call for entries, instructions on how to enter, reference materials, and much more, visit http://challenge.bfi.org

- To see former jury members visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/jurors.

note: The members of this year's distinguished jury will be announced in Fall 2011.

- To view entries to the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Challenge, visit the Idea Index at: http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex

- About the Challenge: http://challenge.bfi.org/About

- To view the 2008 winner visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2008

- To view the 2009 winner visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2009

- To view the 2010 winner visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2010

- To view the 2011 winner visit: http://challenge.bfi.org/winner_2011

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- The Buckminster Fuller Institute: http://www.bfi.org/

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