The programmes combine unique insight into global trends and local needs with a comprehensive approach to design. It 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, the work of the institute extends the profoundly relevant legacy of R. Buckminster Fuller. In this way, it strives to catalyse the collective intelligence required to address the unprecedented challenges ahead.