{"id":21465,"date":"2019-01-26T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21465"},"modified":"2019-01-26T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:07:25","slug":"ihbc-cpd-boost-from-open-culture-buckminster-fullers-dymaxion-chronofile-record-of-his-life-every-15-minutes-from-1920-until-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21465","title":{"rendered":"IHBC \u2018CPD Boost\u2019 from Open Culture: Buckminster Fuller\u2019s \u2018Dymaxion Chronofile\u2019 record of his life\u2026 every 15 minutes from 1920 Until 1983!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"<\/a>Open Culture<\/em> has reported on how Buckminster Fuller documented his life \u2013 a \u2018systematic record of his life, including everything from his correspondence to his dry-cleaning bills\u2019 – from 1920 until 1983, with the \u2018Dymaxion Chronofile\u2019 record now residing in the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection at Stanford University.<\/h3>\n

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Open Culture<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

If you’ve heard of Buckminster Fuller, you’ve almost certainly heard the word \u2018Dymaxion.\u2019 Despite its strong pre-Space Age redolence, the term has somehow remained compelling into the 21st century. But what does it mean? When Fuller, a self-described \u2018comprehensive, anticipatory design scientist,\u2019 first invented a house meant practically to reinvent domestic living, Chicago’s Marshall Field and Company department store put a model on display. The company \u2018wanted a catchy label, so it hired a consultant, who fashioned ‘dymaxion’ out of bits of ‘dynamic,’ ‘maximum,’ and ‘ion,’ \u2018 writes The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert in a piece on Fuller’s legacy.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fuller was so taken with the word, which had no known meaning, that he adopted it as a sort of brand name.\u2019 After the Dymaxion House came the Dymaxion Vehicle, the Dymaxion Map, and even the two-hour-a-day Dymaxion Sleep Plan.<\/p>\n

\u2018As a child, Fuller had assembled scrapbooks of letters and newspaper articles on subjects that interested him,\u2019 Kolbert writes. \u2018When, later, he decided to keep a more systematic record of his life, including everything from his correspondence to his dry-cleaning bills, it became the Dymaxion Chronofile.\u2019 The Dymaxion Chronofile now resides in the R. Buckminster Fuller Collection at Stanford University, a place that has merited the attention of no less a guide to the fascinating corners of the world than Atlas Obscura.<\/p>\n

\u2018The files go back to when he was four-years-old, but he only seriously started the archive in 1917,\u2019 writes that site’s Allison C. Meier. \u2018From then until his death in 1983 he collected everything from each day, with ingoing and outgoing correspondence, newspaper clippings, drawings, blueprints, models, and even the mundane ephemera like dry cleaning bills.\u2019\u00a0 Fuller added to the Dymaxion Chronofile not just every day but, from the year 1920 until his death in 1983, every fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n

In 1962 Fuller described the Dymaxion Chronofile as what would happen \u2018if somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay ’90s, from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century \u2014 as far into the twentieth century as you might live.\u2019 Using himself as the case subject for the project (as he did for many projects, which led him to nickname himself \u2018Guinea Pig B\u2019) meant that \u2018I could not be judge of what was valid to put in or not. I must put everything in, so I started a very rigorous record.\u2019 Open Culture’s own Ted Mills has written elsewhere about the rigors of storing and maintaining that record in archive form over the decades since Fuller’s death, and now, as with so much Fuller did, the Dymaxion Chronofile stands as both a compelling oddity and proof of real, if askew, prescience. After all, how many of us have taken to documenting our own lives online with nearly equal intensity \u2014 and how many of us do it even more often than every fifteen minutes?<\/p>\n

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Open Culture has reported on how Buckminster Fuller documented his life \u2013 a \u2018systematic record of his life, including everything from his correspondence to his dry-cleaning bills\u2019 – from 1920 until 1983, with the \u2018Dymaxion Chronofile\u2019 record now residing in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21467,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21465\/revisions\/21467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}