The LDI Director was part of the design team for the BiomosaicsTM: A Life-Cycle Balance Framework for Land Use Planning and Design submission (MacMath, Fisk & Motloch) to the first Buckminster Fuller Challenge in 2008.
This 2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge was the first of what was intended as an annual global competition that would decide who would receive the Buckminster Fuller Award for the most “novel solution to a pressing world problem, preferably by blending multiple disciplines, such as engineering, ecology, and art—just as the jack-of-all-trades Fuller once did” (Architectural Record). The Award was $100,000 funding to develop and implement the project.
More than 250 proposals were submitted in the First Round. BiomosaicsTM was one of 24 proposals selected to proceed to the Second Round of the 2008 Bucky Fuller Challenge.