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THE 2009 BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE JURY ANNOUNCED

The 2010 Jury: HILLARY BROWN, RYAN CHIN, JENNIFER CORRIERO, SASHA DICHTER, MITCHELL JOACHIM, ALAN KAY, JONATHAN ROSE, SUSAN SZENASY, HARDIN TIBBS, JOHN THACKARA, JOSÉ ZAGLUL
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OCTOBER 14, 2009 NEW YORK CITY — The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) has announced the members of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge jury. The 11 member jury will select this year's winning solution and the $100k prize will be awarded during a public ceremony in June 2010.

"There is a movement afoot--of highly motivated individuals all over the world seriously engaged in coming up with solutions to the mounting set of problems we face. These design pioneers and social innovators are not waiting for large scale institutions to deliver us to a sustainable future. They understand the critical role they play as the change agents for the future we all want to see. These are the people we are excited to see submit solutions to the Challenge and are reflected in our distinguished jury.

The 2010 Jury is made of an incredible group of international systems thinkers and design pioneers. It is a real honor to have them on board.

This year we plan to capture and publish some of the discussion leading to the selection of the winning solution as we feel it surfaces some of the most critical issues faced in trying to figure out which solutions are leverage points for turning the ship around." expressed Executive Director, Elizabeth Thompson.

BIOS 2010 JURY
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HILLARY BROWN- As a former design director and Assistant Commissioner at New York City's Department of Design and Construction, Hillary Brown founded its Office of Sustainable Design. She was managing editor of the nationally and internationally recognized City of New York High Performance Building Guidelines and co-author of the U.S. Green Building Council's State and Local Green Building Toolkit.

RYAN CHIN- Ryan Chin is the Project Leader for the 2009 winning proposal of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. He is a fourth-year PhD student at the MIT Media laboratory in the Smart Cities research group. He is building the car of the future- a foldable, stackable, sharable, electric, two-passenger city vehicle that rethinks urban mobility. This work takes into account problems of parking, congestion, energy efficiency, pollution, communication, and considers the best and most efficient uses of available resources in urban environments.

JENNIFER CORRIERO- Jennifer Corriero is an innovator and leader, bringing tremendous insight into understanding, reaching and motivating youth. Jennifer's experience includes developing and driving youth programs related to technology, collaboration and entrepreneurship, and has designed and delivered an extensive range of interactive learning experiences with the aim of empowering youth as community leaders.

SASHA DICHTER- Sasha is the Director of Business Development at Acumen Fund, a global non-profit that invests in enterprises that serve the poor. In this role, he leads up capital raising globally for Acumen Fund and is responsible for creating an engaged, vibrant, and connected community of Acumen Fund Partners, Advisors and supporters around the world. He is a member of Acumen Fund's leadership team. Sasha is also a successful blogger on storytelling, nonprofits and philanthropy at http://sashadichter.wordpress.com, where he made a splash with his Manifesto for Nonprofit CEOs. enterprises that fight poverty in the developing world.

MITCHELL JOACHIM- He has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship, and the Martin Family Society Fellow for Sustainability. He won the History Channel/ Infiniti Award for the City of the Future, NY and Time Magazine Best Invention of the Year 2007, Compacted Car w/ MIT Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was selected by Wired magazine for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To". Rolling Stone magazine honored Mitchell in "The 100 People Who Are Changing America".

ALAN KAY- President of Viewpoints Research Institute, Inc., Alan Kay is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering "for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers," the Alan M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery "for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing," and the Kyoto Prize from the Inamori Foundation "for creation of the concept of modern personal computing and contribution to its realization." This work was done in the rich context of ARPA and Xerox PARC with many talented colleagues.

JONATHAN ROSE- Jonathan F.P. Rose's business, not-for-profit and public policy work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, much of it in close collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities.

SUSAN SZENASY- Susan S. Szenasy is Editor in Chief of METROPOLIS, the award-winning New York City-based magazine of architecture, culture, and design. Since 1986 she has lead the magazine through years of landmark design journalism, achieving domestic and international recognition. She is internationally recognized as an authority on sustainability and design.

HARDIN TIBBS- Hardin Tibbs is a UK-based strategy consultant and futures researcher with extensive experience of scenario-based strategic thinking. His work is focused on helping organizations move forward with confidence in an environment marked by accelerating social and technological change, and rising economic and environmental instability. He has worked with major companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. This work has spanned a wide range of industries, government areas and institutions, including electricity, aviation, cement, insurance, household products, food, biotechnology, urban infrastructure, natural resources, taxation, transport and defense.

JOHN THACKARA-John Thackara is Director of Doors of Perception. Founded as a conference in Amsterdam in 1993, Doors of Perception now organizes festivals and projects around the world in which grassroots innovators work with designers to imagine sustainable futures - and take practical steps to realize them.

JOSÉ A. ZAGLUL- José A. Zaglul is the President of EARTH University, an international, private, not-for-profit institution in Costa Rica, dedicated to preparing leaders with ethical values to contribute to the sustainable development of the tropics and to construct a prosperous and just society.

THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS MIDNIGHT (EST) ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30TH 2009

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