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Please join us in New York City to celebrate the winning solution of the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge!

Architecting the Future:
June 8-10, 2011
Seats are limited. Reserve now!

Revealing the 2011 winner is part of a three-day series of events featuring finalists, special guests, members of our esteemed jury, and our colleagues from the BFI community.

Wednesday June 8th, from 6-8pm
    Join us for the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalist Presentations! Each finalist is providing a workable solution to the world’s most significant challenges; spanning ocean restoration, protecting indigenous knowledge, combating women’s illiteracy, and connecting the remote developing world to the communication grid.
    The evening will kick off with a keynote talk by Amsterdam-based Doors of Perception founder and internationally renowned design pioneer, John Thakara. 

    Location: Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 map
     
    Reception to follow immediately in Chelsea.  
           

        Thursday June 9th, from 2-4pm    

    Urban Solution Sets - Visionary Strategies for the Future of Cities:
    As a result of reviewing entries through the unique lens of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge criteria, we have been able to identify extraordinary examples of comprehensive, integrated strategies that address the urban environment. What has emerged is a pattern of relationships across these urban solutions that imply a level of corporation and synergy not being discussed, taught or practiced. For this event we will be bringing together urban educators, planners and developers to explore the notion of urban solution sets as a framework to consider advancement around practices that impact the generation/regeneration of our cities.

    Location: Center for Architecture, AIA, 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 map
  

   Friday June 10th, from 6-8pm

    Join us for the Announcement, Conferring Ceremony and Celebration of the Winner of the 2011 Buckminster Fuller Challenge! Recently identified as Socially Responsible Design’s Highest Award, the Challenge is the world's only large prize program rewarding integrated, whole-systems approaches to solving the world’s sustainability crises. The winner will receive a $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of their strategy to solve humanity's complex and entrenched problems.The program will include a presentation of the winning solution and keynote speech by one of the world’s thought leaders in environmental design; distinguished professor and author, David Orr.

    Location: Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016 map

    Reception to follow.
Limited seating offered on a first come first serve basis. Registration required; suggested donations. See packages below:


Full 3-Day Pass
Admission to all 2011 events and receptions in NYC.
$100.00
Full 3-Day Pass with VIP Seating
Admission to all events and receptions from June 8-10 including VIP seating for all events.
$150.00
Wednesday June 8th
Admission for Wednesday June 8th,  CUNY Graduate Center, New York , 6-9pm in the Elebash Recital Hall: Finalist Presentations & Discussion. Without reception.
$25.00
Wednesday June 8th + Reception
Admission for Wednesday June 8th,  CUNY Graduate Center, New York , 6-9pm in the Elebash Recital Hall: Finalist Presentations & Discussion. Includes admission to following reception.
$45.00
Thursday, June 9th
Admission for Thursday, June 9th, Center for Architecture, AIA New York Chapter, 2-4pm: Urban Solution Sets- Visionary Strategies for the Future of Cities.
$25.00
Friday, June 10th
Admission for Wednesday June 8th,  CUNY Graduate Center, New York , from 6-8pm in the Proshansky Auditorium: 2011 Winner Announcement and Conferring Ceremony with Keynote by David Orr.
Without reception.
$25.00
Friday, June 10th + Reception
Admission for Wednesday June 8th,  CUNY Graduate Center, New York , 6-8pm in the Proshansky Auditorium: 2011 Winner Announcement and Conferring Ceremony. Keynote by David Orr.
Includes admission to following reception.
$45.00
Schedule subject to change without notice. All sales are final.