The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Features Seed-Scale

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge featured a one-page blog about the Seed-Scale process on their website.  Future Generations is currently one of 30 semi-finalists for the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Award. To read the article devoted to Seed-Scale, please click <here>.

Seed-Scale: A Process for Lasting Change

Answering Bucky's call for a Design Science revolution that will make the world work for all, the Seed-Scale process targets the bottom 20% of populations that conventional development approaches have typically left behind. The Seed-Scale process was developed by Future Generations through research done for UNICEF which documented cases of community-based large-scale change throughout the last century. Drawing on evidence and creating guidelines from successful cases, the Seed-Scale process uses a comprehensive approach which centers around communities, while involving external change agents and governments, to create change from the bottom up. As their Challenge entry summary states, they recognize that there are "no universal solutions for cultural, economic and ecological sustainability, but there is a universal process to identify local solutions."