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The World came to Asheville today as over 100 people
shuffled onto the World Map at UNCA to populate the
earth and experience humanity’s population boom.
Each person, representing nearly 1% of the Earth’s
population, took their place on the map in historical
order, populating Africa and Asia first and then the
rest of the planet over hundreds of thousands of years.
shuffled onto the World Map at UNCA to populate the
earth and experience humanity’s population boom.
Each person, representing nearly 1% of the Earth’s
population, took their place on the map in historical
order, populating Africa and Asia first and then the
rest of the planet over hundreds of thousands of years.
The final wave of people, two thirds of all human
beings ever born, showed up in the last seconds of the
exercise, knee deep in sea water, as the twenty-first
century opened....
beings ever born, showed up in the last seconds of the
exercise, knee deep in sea water, as the twenty-first
century opened....
The World Map, a creation of the legendary
Buckminster Fuller, was brought to Asheville as part
of the Design Science Lab conference at UNCA and
was shown during an evening event which was free
and opento the press and public ( www.designsciencellab.org).
A group of citizen - educators in Asheville have
purchased the map from JIm Hausman
(www.sand-box.org) it’s Paris owner, and plan to
develop educational programs for schools in the
coming year.
Buckminster Fuller, was brought to Asheville as part
of the Design Science Lab conference at UNCA and
was shown during an evening event which was free
and opento the press and public ( www.designsciencellab.org).
A group of citizen - educators in Asheville have
purchased the map from JIm Hausman
(www.sand-box.org) it’s Paris owner, and plan to
develop educational programs for schools in the
coming year.
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“The Biggest Map in the World”
“The Biggest Map in the World”
Countdown to Now:
BOOM!:
A History of People on Earth
in 30 Seconds
Buckminster Fuller’s World Map in Asheville, NC, July 23, 2006
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