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| One of the semifinalists: The Portable Light Project |
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual international design award grants $100,000 to support the development and implementation of a "bold, visionary, tangible initiative that is focused on a well-defined need of critical importance and comprehensive, anticipatory, integrated approach".
Winning solutions to the most significant challenges including:
- ocean restoration
- protecting indigenous knowledge
- combating women’s illiteracy
- connecting the remote developing world to the communication grid
"When evaluating these entries we were looking for those projects that mark the emergence of a new paradigm, one that not only addresses the problems but carries us beyond— into a new mode of being. These finalists do just that. Reviewing them has been deeply inspirational"
Jean Gardner, 2011 Challenge Juror
Here all the semifinalists
