Many of Fuller’s contemporaries also found his work bizarre and impractical. We may have had a good laugh at a recent replica of Fuller’s nearly undriveable, “ scary as hell,” 1930 Dymaxion Car, one of his first inventions. The Dymaxion World map is a means by which he can see the whole world fairly at once.” Fuller, notes Kelsey Campell-Dollaghan at Gizmodo, “intended the Dymaxion World map to serve as a tool for communication and collaboration between nations.”įuller believed, writes BFI, that “given a way to visualize the whole planet with greater accuracy, we humans will be better equipped to address challenges as we face our common future aboard Spaceship Earth.” Was he naïve or ahead of his time? As the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) points out, “The Fuller Projection Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in the ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.”įuller published his map in Life magazine, as a corrective, he said, “for the layman, engrossed in belated, war-taught lessons in geography….
In any case, 73 years before the AuthaGraph, the Dymaxion Map achieved a similar feat, with similar motivations. Whether Narukawa has acknowledged Fuller as an inspiration I cannot say.
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