The Joanne Avison Podcast

Sacred Geometry: Buckminster Fuller and the World of Tensegrity

Joanne Avison Season 5 Episode 26

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What happens when someone gives a name to something that has always existed?

Buckminster Fuller didn't invent tensegrity, but by naming it, he gave the world a new way of seeing. In this episode of the Sacred Geometry series, Joanne explores how Fuller's remarkable work connected architecture, engineering, biology and the living human body through one universal principle…

From geodesic domes and “Spaceship Earth” to carbon molecules, fascia and human movement, this episode reveals why Fuller's ideas continue to reshape our understanding of living architecture today.

You'll discover:

  • Why Buckminster Fuller coined the term tensegrity
  • How geodesic domes reveal nature's principles of force distribution
  • Why the same geometric patterns appear from carbon molecules to the cosmos
  • What synergetics and whole-system thinking can teach us about the human body
  • How these ideas are transforming our understanding of fascia, movement and anatomy

This episode continues the journey from Leonardo da Vinci and Kenneth Snelson, exploring how a single word - tensegrity - helped reveal one of nature's most profound organising principles. It also lays the foundation for the next episode, where Joanne introduces Tom Flemons and his groundbreaking work applying these ideas directly to the human body.


If this way of understanding the body resonates with you, Joanne Avison and Paul Thornley teach these principles through their online programme, Myofascial Magic in Action. This in-depth course brings together fascia, movement, anatomy, and Sacred Geometry to help practitioners, movers, and curious learners experience the living body in an entirely new way.

FIND OUT MORE HERE:

🌟 https://www.myofascialmagic.com/mmia-programme-info



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