CHICAGO: The Field Museum

HISTORY | MULTIMEDIA | VIDEO

CITY: Chicago

CITIES: Red Ball Project

REDBALL CITIES | 2012 Perth Festival – RedBall Project

ROUTE 66: Bucky Dome

Bucky Dome: Daddy of all geodesic dome homes

C I T Y : CHICAGO

Family Travel Survival Guide: Chicago

CELEBRATION: FULLER DOME RESTORATION

W H A T :    The Fuller Dome Restoration Celebration & Launch
W H E N :    Saturday, April 9 · 12:00pm – 4:00pm
W H E R E : The Fuller Dome Home, Carbondale, IL

M O R E : Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Home & Museum
The future Fuller Dome Home site – Carbondale, Illinois

This is going to be an incredible day featuring all of the following at Bucky’s Home:
A ribbon cutting to launch restoration of the Fuller Dome!
The final tours of an unrestored Fuller Dome!
Lots of fun and engaging activities for kids!
A Design Department Reunion featuring more than 50 years of SIUC design students!
Dome building activities!
A rare glimpse into some of the one-of-a-kind Buckminster Fuller artifacts in the RBF Dome NFP collection!
Music, food, bonding and fun…. and lots and lots of livingry!

One of the activities planned for Saturday … newspaper domes … everyone should try it!

Rebuild the Dome: Renovation begins on Bucky’s home

AROUND THE WORLD: DOMES

• ASM Headquarters and Geodesic Dome
• ASTRODOME, Houston, Texas, USA
• BIOSPHERE, Montreal, Canada
• CLIMATRON, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• DOME OF THE ROCK, Jerusalem, Israel
• EDEN PROJECT, Cornwall, UK
• FLORENCE CATHEDRAL, Florence, Italy
• FULLER HOME DOME, Carbondale, IL

Sun-Earth Day 2011

Ancient Mysteries and Future Discoveries:
Sun Watchers Through Time | Traditions of the SUN | Webcast

NASA EDGE webcasts live during the Sun Earth Day Tweet Up at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on March 19, 2011 at 2 pm EDT.

The programs will highlight several sites including: Chaco Canyon (New Mexico), Hovenweep (Utah), Chichen Itza (Mexico), Cahokia Mounds (Illinois), and Sunspot (New Mexico). Many of these sites present unique opportunities to develop authentic cultural connections to Native Americans, highlighting the importance of the Sun across the ages.

Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Home & Museum

Buckminster Fuller’s Dome Home in Carbondale, IL opens to the public:
Soon to be museum

STREET ART

Which City Has The Best Street Art – Philadelphia, Berlin, or Chicago?