Buckminster Fuller vis-a-vis The Tripartite Model

Buckminster Fuller

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing - a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process - an integral function of the universe.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller ~

R. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 12, 1895. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanity, Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts.” Fuller did not limit himself to one field but worked as a 'comprehensive anticipatory design scientist' to solve global problems surrounding housing, shelter, transportation, education, energy, ecological destruction, and poverty. Throughout the course of his life Fuller held 28 patents, authored 28 books, received 47 honorary degrees. And while his most well know artifact, the geodesic dome, has been produced over 300,000 times worldwide, Fuller's true impact on the world today can be found in his continued influence upon generations of designers, architects, scientists and artists working to create a more sustainable planet.

I've encountered Fuller here and there, thus far, but he definitely warrants a deeper study.  Certainly I'm impressed by his accomplishments, and right now I can only aspire to match these.  But more importantly, I'm intrigued by however he thought, however he reasoned, however he came to understand whatever it was that he was working on.  In other words, I want to learn more about the process than the outcome.

Why?

Because the more bits and pieces I learn about him, such as the above notes from Corina Marinescu, the more I sense that Fuller's thinking resonates with mine, specifically The Tripartite Model, which speaks to a much wider range of scholarship and discipline - Science | Art | Religion - than any one scientist, philosopher or professor is used to.