Stephen Bau has been a vocal evangelist for the ideas of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and was the person who introduced me to my first Trimtab Spacecamp in 2020.
Stephen is also a participant in both coheARTs of the Design Science Studio, an art incubator founded out of the BFI, who have sought to revive Bucky's idea of the Design Science Decade for 2020-2030. Creators in the studio apply their whole systems knowledge to create (r)Evolutionary art, experiences and messages for a regenerative future that works for 100% of life.
Stephen and a small group of members of the DSS formed the Design Science Synarchy to support the founders of the Design Science Studio, then just when things seemed to be ramping up, a devastating car crash brought everything to a grinding halt. With all of the founders in the hospital, members of the Synarchy grappled with how they could fill in the gap of leadership conscientiously and provide support in the midst of the trauma. So instead an acceleration toward a third cohort there came an acute understanding that “Slowing down, resting and healing is our gift to the world.”
We talk about the Synarchy, the arts, and community verses hierarchy, as well as Stephen's brilliant circular calendar he designed and why he chose to name his latest blog The Apocrypha on Substack. Stephen is a prolific writer, a designer and design mentor, and has been working tirelessly to understand the depth of R. Buckminster Fuller's quote "Love is metaphysical gravity."
Stephen Bau
https://theapocrypha.substack.com/
https://stephenbau.com/
https://bauhouse.ca/
https://bldrs.co/
Veronica Anderson
https://www.veronica.earth/
Mark Smith
http://www.eleprocon.com/
The Design Science Studio
https://www.designscience.studio/
The Buckminster Fuller Institute
https://www.bfi.org/
Trimtab Spacecamp Community
https://trimtab.substack.com/
Plum Village Podcast
https://plumvillage.org/mindfulness/podcasts/
Scott Thrift’s Clocks
https://thepresent.is/
A different way to visualize rhythm - John Varney (TedEd)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UphAzryVpY
Stephen’s Circular Calendar
https://theapocrypha.substack.com/p/a-sense-of-time
Saving Time, Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672377/saving-time-by-jenny-odell/
Every year, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (https://www.bfi.org) hosts a dynamic event called Trimtab Space Camp, and each event encourages participants to join or host a Mission, the collaborative learning component of this 8-week online event. This year's Space Camp: Towards Climate Stabilization hosted 20 Missions with over 150 participants. At the end of the eight-week journey, crew-members from each Mission have 5 minutes to share their results with the group and the wider BFI community of over 100,000 people.
The Spaceship Earth Mission Log project will be interviewing leaders from each of the 20 Missions over the next 8 weeks beyond the close of this Space Camp. Subscribe to make deeper connections and be notified when each Mission Log comes out!
Steven Leavitt hosts this series, and is the host of The Language of Creativity podcast, https://www.thelanguageofcreativity.com. He has attended four Space Camps since 2020 and is inspired by Buckminster Fuller's quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Tags: comprehensive anticipatory design science, Buckminster Fuller, artists, creativity, designers, metaphysical gravity, love, synergetics, calendar, non-traditional, apocrypha, substack, the liturgists, podcast, deconstruction, exvangelical, spirituality, Jesse James Garrett, Jenny Odell, Scott Thrift, arts funding, syntropy, Gene Keys, regenerative, rest as resistance, venture capital, burnout, leadership
Stephen Bau: Design Science Synarchy