Call For Submissions

Who Should Submit

We welcome submissions from artists, designers, educators, researchers, students, and interdisciplinary teams. Both established practitioners and emerging voices are encouraged to apply.

What Can Be Submitted

The Fuller Futures Festival welcomes proposals inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s belief that small, thoughtful actions can shift entire systems. Your work does not need to solve everything. It can be your contribution, your experiment, or your way of advancing something life-giving and constructive.

*If you are unsure whether your work fits, we encourage you to submit.

We are interested in work that engages Fuller’s ideas through practice, research, imagination, or lived experience. Submissions may be artistic, practical, theoretical, or hybrid in nature, and may explore sustainability alongside social, educational, cultural, or technological questions.

This includes (but is not limited to):

Artistic, expressive, or visionary work

Exploratory or experimental projects

Academic or research-based presentations

Design- or systems-oriented thinking

Collaborative or interdisciplinary initiatives

Hybrid formats that cross disciplines, methods, or media

Educational or curriculum-based approaches inspired by Fuller’s ideas

If your work is constructive, cooperative, or oriented toward making things work a little better, it belongs here. The Fuller Futures Festival is intentionally expansive. Accepted proposals may be shaped into panels, conversations, workshops, exhibitions, or other formats through a collaborative programming process. Space is limited, and we will work with participants to determine the most appropriate format.

Submission information needed includes:

A title

An abstract or project description

Optional supporting materials (images, links, or documents)

World Game & SIM Center Participation

Participation in the World Game (April 23rd) and SIM Center session (April 24th) is limited. These sessions involve a significant time commitment, approximately 9:30 AM–3:30 PM with a lunch break. Not all accepted submissions will include World Game participation. Additional ongoing sessions may be added depending on demand.