Design Anticipation
Buckminster Fuller referred to himself as a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.” He worked by common sense and intuition to capture the nascent, necessary artifacts for humans to continue evolving, and set about to design them.
On
encountering this notion, I began to wonder—what is the state of mind—the state
of being—of being a “comprehensive
anticipatory design scientist?” It hit me that the state is “design
anticipation.” Since that insight, I have explored the state of design
anticipation and sought to capture some of its outlines and edges so that it
might be available to everyone.
Design
Anticipation, in this incarnation, is a business dedicated to commercialize
designs based on these explorations. Ultimately it is a vehicle for providing a
hands-on education on its practice.
