This introduction to R. Buckminster Fuller’s last book, COSMOGRAPHY: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity,2 offers both a challenge to readers to think for themselves about issues with which they are confronted, and introduces a blueprint for.
Definition of Synergetics: Synergetics is the system of holistic thinking which R. Buckminster Fuller introduced and began to formulate. Synergetics is multi-faceted: it involves geometric modeling, exploring inter-relationships in the facts of experience and the process of thinking. Synergetics endeavors to identify and understand the methods that Nature actually uses in coordinating Universe (both physically and metaphysically). Synergetics provides a method and a philosophy for problem-solving and design and therefore has applications in all areas of human endeavor. Source: snec.synergeticists.org
962.40 Synergetic geometry embraces all the qualities of experience, all aspects of being. — R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics
Synergetics, in the broadest terms, is the study of spatial complexity, and as such is an inherently comprehensive discipline. ... Experience with synergetics encourages a new way of approaching and solving problems. Its emphasis on visual and spatial phenomena combined with Fuller's holistic approach fosters the kind of lateral thinking which so often leads to creative breakthroughs. — Amy Edmondson, A Fuller Explanation, 1987
More information about Synergetics can be found in Buckminster Fuller's magnum opus Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, BFI's Synergetics resources, in the Synergetics section of the R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ, the book A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller by Amy Edmondson --- Full Text On-Line, and Kirby Urner's Synergetics on the Web.