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SAN FRANSISCO WORLD GAME

In 1970 a group of students and teachers who were familiar with the work of the creative world thinker R. Buckminister Fuller gathered in San Fransisco to "play" his world game. They lived communally in a mansion in Pacific Heights (as well as a loft building downtown) and participated in a number of consciousness-raising workshops in preparation for Fuller's arrival. The program was capped off by a huge lecture from Fuller himself at the Exploratorium with overflow seating available for the hundreds who wanted to attend. Speaking in front of a giant cardboard tetrahedron, Fuller gave one of his most powerful talks with an emphasis on the coming rise of Asia as a world power and the need to move immediately to a sharing of the world's resources before the growth of human population created a crisis (primarily in energy, transportation and housing) and shifted the fortune of our home planet from bad to even worse.

Several of the concerns developed by Fuller at that time can be seen today all around the world.

The attendees who "played" the World Game were an amazing group that came from far and wide. They included students from SIU Carbondale in Illinois, MIT in Massachusetts, SUNY in New York, Parsons School of Design and Grinnell in Iowa, Middlebury in Vermont, and many more. World Gamers like Lyle Ager, Josephine Corcoran, Dennis Traeger, Brian, Bernie and the gang from Boston and New York as well as Sam from Toronto, a contingent from Stanford, Berkeley and other schools on the West Coast.

Where have they all gone? Folks were scattered to the winds and some are perhaps hard to find but for those who remain this entry may help to focus the world on the issues that Fuller spoke of so long ago. The spirit of the World Game remains strong...solutions that cut across political and cultural boundaries are still available.

Thanks for reading!