The week-long Design Science Lab is a stand-alone event, but those who wish to take the work that emerges from the Lab further are encouraged to enroll in the Design Science Lab Extension. This online program allows you to participate from your home or office. It will extend, deepen, and enrich your understanding and practical use of design science. The intention of the DSL Extension is to help you refine the strategy you develop during the Design Science Lab in June and work towards its implementation.

The additional focused time of the DSL Extension will enable you (and your team, if that is the case) to add the depth, breath, specifics, and documentation that will better enable your design science strategy to enter the $100,000 Buckminster Fuller Challenge— as well as be better prepared to seek funding from foundation, government, investor, or business partners. A proposal for funding and/or business plan that takes your design to the next stage is one of the goals of this June 30 - August 1 lab extension.

Past Design Science Lab participants and past and future entrants in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge wishing to improve their strategies are encouraged to apply. For more information on this program contact Medard Gabel at

DESIGN SCIENCE LAB EXTENSION

(June 30– August 1)
Extend, deepen, and enrich your understanding and practical use of design science. Add the depth, breath, specifics, and documentation that will better enable your design strategy to be implemented in the real world.

“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution.”

—Albert Einstein