Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering with David McConville

Cosmomimicry: We’re The Universe Mattering with David McConville

Buckminster Fuller Institute Board President David McConville says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species, and it’s changing radically.

The legendary designer Buckminster Fuller asked, “If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, then how would I be and what would I do?” Neil Harvey explores the work of designer David McConville to discuss finding a deeper perception and connection to the universe.

Seeing is believing, then again believing is seeing. The way we see the world also creates that world. As the physical realities of human-induced climate disruption and ecological degradation escalate, big changes are gestating everywhere; breakdown and breakthrough. Paradigms are dying and being born. It is time for a new story,  a new way of seeing that we can believe in, or as designer David McConville puts it, “The universe we design for is the universe we are going to get.

David McConville is a media artist who designs visualization tools for seeing the world in new ways. As Board Chairman of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, David facilitates connections across design art science and technology to cultivate whole system strategies for addressing today’s complex global challenges. He says our view of the universe profoundly shapes our future as a species. So what is that view? Where did it come from and what does that mean?

“We have replaced the certainty of faith with the infallibility of science. We have treated life as a commodity to be exploited and harnessed science to the corruption of treasure power and empire.Although we have access to unparallel knowledge, we are destroying our only home. While scientists hunt for galactic escape on planets that could explain life. Here on earth we are tipping toward the unknown, crashing the ecological boundaries of humanities’ safe operating space.”  

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