SPACESHIP EARTH
Spaceship Earth, popularized in the mid-60's, was used Buckminster Fuller in the context of his primary concern- a vision for comprehensive planetary planning that resulted in new strategies intended to enable all of humanity to live with freedom, comfort and dignity, without negatively impacting the earth’s ecosystems or regenerative ability. He emphasized that the technology and know-how already exists, so that humanity can successfully surmount global challenges. Although, Spaceship Earth was often employed as a rhetoric device to emphasize the common plight of mankind and life, treating it as such would negate the rich meaning which this term has come to hold over time.
Fuller did not only dedicate a significant portion of his research and work to developing designs and strategies to improve humanity's overall capacity to sustainably exist on Earth, he went beyond and helped us reimagine the plane with his Dymaxion Air-Ocean World Map.
The Fuller Projection - A New View for the Millennium
All flat world map representations of the spherical globe contain some amount of distortion either in shape, area, distance or direction measurements. On the well known Mercator world map, Greenland appears to be three times its relative globe size and Antarctica appears as a long thin white strip along the bottom edge of the map. Even the popular Robinson Projection, used in many schools, still contains a large amount of area distortion with Greenland appearing 60 percent larger than its relative globe size.
The "Air-Ocean Projection" also known as the “Dymaxion Map” was created by Fuller in the 1940s. The map was the first cartographic projection process to receive a U.S. Patent. The revolutionary projection is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.
Fuller’s view was that given a way to visualize the whole planet with greater accuracy, we humans will be better equipped to address challenges as we face our common future aboard Spaceship Earth.
With our increasing global awareness, a world map is needed which enables us to highlight the relationships among all nations and cultures of the world rather than one which emphasizes artificial boundaries between them. Environmental concerns are becoming a central focus of our international agenda. Therefore, we must learn to see what unites us rather than what separates us, and to chart global resources, population, and distribution patterns which characterize the complex trends and critical needs of the world today. In Fuller's own words, "the Dymaxion Map reveals a One-World Island in a One-World Ocean" which helps us to view the world as one interdependent system of relationships.
This is what is most fundamentally at heart when we speak of Spaceship Earth. The planet is a system, and a resilient one. However, humanity's presence on Earth has set about significant changes, and we must now learn to command this Spaceship to avert global crisis and catastrophe and ensure the long-term success of humanity of our beautiful "blue marble."
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/spaceshipearth
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/spaceshipearth
Edited: 07.22.2020
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