A (r)Evolutionary incubator for ART inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life

We are supporting global creators imagining an equitable and just future, because the future is always first an idea.

Our second coheART of artists runs September 2021 - April 2022

Applications opened June 30th and will close August 15th, 2021!

We will have an incredible crew of 144 (r)Evolutionaries aboard.

Our first coheART just graduated to become Evolutionaries and stewards of the Regenaissance.
Explore their work and learn from them.

We are in a time of radical systems change. It is time to align humanity with Nature once again. It’s time to reimagine everything:

From eco-systems, to thinking toolkits, from new governance systems, to eco-village blueprints…

new regenerative practices, protest music, inspiring art and experiences…

We are birthing the Regenaissance.

Overview

We are calling all creators: fine artists, designers, performers, philosophers, ecologists, systems thinkers and others who resonate with this prompt to create art that explores the principles of Design Science.

Buckminster Fuller was inspired by nature, and we currently know more about living systems than we ever have. Whether you are visualizing what society aligned with the principles of nature will look like or creating technology that will help us get there, we invite you to join our community of collaborators. Through creative expression, members of this program will co-create in service of a world that works “for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone”.

We welcome creators to apply to join the Design Science Studio and embark on a facilitated journey to use principles of nature, science and design to imagine a future that is regenerative and just.

Creators in the studio apply their whole systems knowledge to create (r)Evolutionary art, experiences and messages for a regenerative future that works for 100% of life.

 

What is the Design Science Studio?

The Design Science Studio is an educational incubator for art created by the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual, that scaffolds, mentors and funds artists to inspire and propel us into a regenerative future. The program takes artists on a learning journey through a mind bending curriculum to produce planet-conscious art.

Following the ideas of visionaries like Buckminster Fuller and many modern system thinkers, philosophers, activists, scientists and visionary polymaths, we help artists create content that can create cultural shifts.

The program culminates in a series of digital and physical showcases and large scale campaigns to imagine and facilitate the transition to a future where all beings thrive through celebration and art.

We are in a time of radical systems change as Humanity has the potential to realign itself with Nature.

The Design Science Studio will respond to this fragile and transformational moment by ARTiculating the possibility of a healthy world via a decade of non-violent, design-led, creativity-expressed revolution. The time has perhaps never been more ripe for Fuller’s vision of the Design Science Revolution. The Design Science Studio will use art across mediums to spark inspiration, conversation, reconciliation, and action so that we may all band together and evolve into a world where all life thrives.


The Design Science Studio is comprised of the following components:

CURRICULUM:
Explore and Orient

  • Cutting edge education

  • Curriculum resources 

  • Periodic showcases (virtual and live)

  • Cross-pollination with other artists to share insights, experiences and best practices

COMMUNITY:
Deepen and Create

  • The amount of emergence is unprecedented. People from all around the world are uniting to rethink our structures, systems and solutions. A Regenaissance of new ways of being and doing is starting.

  • Artists join a creative community to imagine new ways to transform our Planet.

  • Be part of a Global cohort connected to partners in the movement for mutual support and collective action.

 

SHOWCASE:
Harvest and Amplify

  • WE will powerfully weave, scaffold, fund and launch art that changes history.

  • Throughout the decade, we will create festivals and immersive experiences to celebrate the Regenaissance and show the world that other futures are possible.

Click here to explore regen·era, the virtual regenerative city we created to give home to all the projects that we will incubate and support in years to come. You can also check out some amazing content from our previous celebratory gatherings and conversations or go directly into our virtual worlds through our launchpad.

“Make the world work, for 100% of life,
in the shortest possible time,
through spontaneous cooperation,
without ecological offense or
the disadvantage of anyone.”

-Buckminster Fuller

Projects at all production phases from conception to completion are invited to apply join our coheART of creators.

Applications for coheART 2 of the studio are currently open until August 15th.

Apply to the Design Science Studio 21/22 coheART

 Benefits

  • Join a creative Community of Practice

  • Mentorship 

  • Access to impactful educational resources

  • Engage in a curriculum designed to transform your view of the world and turn you into a systems thinker

  • Opportunities to promote and highlight your work to broad audiences

  • Selected pieces will be featured on our marketplace with stipends / profit-sharing opportunities as well as showcases and auctions to amplify your art 

  • A movement designed to create systemic and social change through art. A school of thought to create a cultural shift. A place to show up for the planet through your creativity.

Quotes from our past alumni.

“Through DSS I have found kinship in values; I have found community in shared goals; and I have found inspiration to keep pushing ourselves and each other—inside and out—to question, try, continue creating and listening.”
- Chris Weir, Evolutionary

“Creating space for collaboration is a radical form of artistry. The Design Science Studio is a rare and wonderful gift, a public commons for cross-pollination combined with a private incubator to nourish new works”
- Evo Heyning, Evolutionary

“Design Science Studio has emerged for and by the architects of the future. It was the singular most profound turning point in my career.”
- Umair Zia, Evolutionary

Eligibility

This program results in digital showcases, so art that is easily accessible to viewers online (paintings, websites, data visualizations, images, video, etc.) is encouraged. However we will have as many physical exhibitions in the future, so no medium is off limits. Dancers, poets, musicians, performers, visual artists, sculptors, writers, digital artists, and creators of any other medium are encouraged to participate. We also invite collaborators for development of creative projects: designers, philosophers, architects, ecologists, systems thinkers, and anyone else interested in contributing to our mission.

We're accepting projects at all production phases from conception to completion and also artists without a project. 

We invite all creators to participate. We extend an invitation to established and emerging artists, artists of color, LGBTQIA+ creators, undocumented artists, unhoused artists, different socioeconomic backgrounds, marginalized groups or communities, etc. 

Even though our programs have a cost that allows us to continue operating and expanding our message, we offer a significant amount of grants and possibilities to reduce the program cost for those artists in a more precarious financial situation.

We are in this together.

Your help is key in this (r)Evolution.

If you have been gifted with ample resources and you want to commit some of them to the betterment of the planet, we ask you to financially support the Design Science Studio. The cascading benefits of the work created in the studio will be magnified through your generosity.

  
“It is the science...of the ordered design, comprehensible principles by which our universe works, and which we can expect, understand, and predictably apply to partner with and refashion our natural and human world.”

—Glenn Olds

Team Leads

Roxi Shohadaee, Studio Director + ARTchitect, habRitual Founder 

 Nicolás Alcalá, Studio Imagineer, habRitual

Amanda Joy Ravenhill, BFI Executive Director 

Faith Flanigan, BFI Operations Director

 

Explore the rest of the team here.