RanDome http://randome.info The RanDome is an ultra low-cost transitional hardshelled living structure composed of vertex elements which are quickly assembled and disassembled for easy transport. posterous.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:56:00 -0800 Yahoo Photo of the Day http://randome.info/yahoo-photo-of-the-day http://randome.info/yahoo-photo-of-the-day

Occupy Maine prepares for eviction by the City of Portland from Linciln Park, aka. Lincolnshire after 127 days of protest. Occupy Maine is perhaps the longest running cold weather encampments in the nation. Photo credit to Joel Page, AP News.

 

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Dick Fischbeck ties down his "RanDome" in preparation to move it Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, from Lincoln Park in Portland, Maine. The dome was set up in October to serve as a communal space and warming shelter for members of Occupy Maine. The city of Portland has given notice that the group must remove tents and structures by Monday morning. (AP Photo/Joel Page)

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/4wEWX7fgFj33 Richard Fischbeck randomeshelter Richard Fischbeck Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:45:00 -0800 RanDome Construction Method Video Tutorial http://randome.info/randome-construction-method-video-tutorial http://randome.info/randome-construction-method-video-tutorial

Inside

Photo Credit:  Kim Waite, Occupy Maine

For Direct link to Video on Yahoo Voices: http://voices.yahoo.com/video/how-build-randome-geodesic-shelter-10564227.html?cat=59

For Written Step-by-Step Instructions: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to-build-randome-geodesic-emergency-shelter-0131206/

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:30:00 -0800 Occupy Maine Plans to Stick through the Winter http://randome.info/occupy-maine-plans-to-stick-through-the-winte http://randome.info/occupy-maine-plans-to-stick-through-the-winte

Article in Portland's Sun Journal, November 20, 2011

Diverse Group of Protesters Seeking a Sense of Community

Housed on a bookshelf inside the RanDome - dubbed the "Ohm Dome" Spiritual Center at the Occupy Maine encampment - are books written by Martin Luther King, Jr. Mahatma Ghandi and the Dalai Llama.

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Photo by Daryn Slover, Sun Journal Buy a Print

Read the complete article:

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/state/2011/11/20/occupymaine-diverse-group-protesters-seeking-sense-community/1116555

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:05:00 -0700 RanDome makes the Local Newspaper http://randome.info/randome-makes-the-local-newspaper http://randome.info/randome-makes-the-local-newspaper

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In the November 3 edition of the Portland Daily Sun reporter David Carkuff covers the local reaction to the RanDome donated to Lincoln Park´s Occupy Maine (#occupymaine) encampment. One of Dick's quotes from the article, "I'm the first one, according to the U.S. Patent Office, to build out of corners," Read the entire story: Dome Builder Sees Global Future for Unique Design.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:13:00 -0700 RanDome Shelters Lincoln Park Occupants from Nor'easter Snow http://randome.info/randome-shelters-lincoln-park-occupants-from http://randome.info/randome-shelters-lincoln-park-occupants-from
Bucky' s daughter Allegra (Center) visits Lincoln Park after snowfall. Photo by: Kim Waite
With the Nor'easter snowstorm approaching, RanDome inventor Dick Fischbeck knew time was short.  The snowfall predicted for Saturday night would leave dozens of Lincoln Park's occupants "out in the cold".  Only weeks earlier Dick's polyethylene RanDome shelter had made it's debut at MOFGA's Common Ground Country Fair. Early Saturday morning Dick strapped the still rolled up RanDome onto his car and drove to Portland.  The dome was rapidly unrolled onto the grounds.  It is serving as a community center for Occupy Maine.  Two more RanDomes have now been requested for that location. For more on this read new article: Geodesic Emergency Shelter Makes it to Lincoln Park in the Nick of Time.

RanDome and Occupy Maine were honored by the visit of Allegra Fuller Snyder - Buckminster Fuller's daughter - on Sunday. Dick will be holding a RanDome workshop at the Third Biennial Design Science Symposium (November 11 - 13, 2011) in Providence, Rhode Island.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:22:00 -0700 The Homeless Tutor Protesters on How to Occupy Wall Street http://randome.info/homeless-tutor-protesters-on-how-to-survive http://randome.info/homeless-tutor-protesters-on-how-to-survive

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Photo Credit: Scott Lynch "Scoboco" http://goo.gl/2caU8

Despite the "comfort stations" which ease somewhat the initial shock of not having a roof over their heads, protesters occupying parks throughout the country are getting first hand experience of what life is truly like on the streets. In an unexpected twist the homeless are now serving as role models and are providing a whole new perspective on homelessness. Things people with a place to live take for granted - using the restroom, sitting down, sleeping, staying warm, having a snack - are a matter of life and death for the homeless who live in ways reminiscent of the prehistoric caveman, struggling daily to find food, stay safe and fulfill the most basic necessities to sustain life.  According to the Associated Press: "With the temperature dropping, they are stockpiling donated coats, blankets and scarves, trying to secure cots and military-grade tents, and getting survival tips from the homeless people who have joined their encampments."

Occupy Wall Street Brings Homelessness Into the Open

Surviving Zuccotti Park:  How the Protesters stay Warm, Fed and Cheery

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:34:00 -0700 Occupy Earth http://randome.info/occupy-earth http://randome.info/occupy-earth

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"We have one place. Call it Spaceship Earth."

"Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship. And our spaceship is so superbly designed as to be able to keep life regenerating on board despite the phenomenon, entropy, by which all local physical systems lose energy. So we have to obtain our biological life-regenerating energy from another spaceship the sun." -rbf 

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Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment

http://www.ted.com/talks/sasha_dichter.html

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/4wEWX7fgFj33 Richard Fischbeck randomeshelter Richard Fischbeck Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:06:00 -0700 MOFGA Common Ground Country Fair Revisited http://randome.info/mofga-common-ground-fair-revisited http://randome.info/mofga-common-ground-fair-revisited

It was a hectic two weeks preparing for the Common Ground Country Fair and in a flash it is over.  Here are a few pictures.  More to come as we begin to go through all the videos and photos we took from the fair. The RanDome will be displayed next at The Third Biennial Design Science Symposium at RISD in November.

How to Build a Randome Geodesic Emergency Shelter

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:56:00 -0700 They Now Live in Tents http://randome.info/they-now-live-in-tents http://randome.info/they-now-live-in-tents

A fashion designer once earning 100,000 dollars a year  now lives in a tent. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8787722/Once-prosperous-New-Yorkers-forced-to-live-under-canvas-in-New-Jersey-woods.html

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:46:00 -0700 World Bank Raises Aid to the Horn of Africa http://randome.info/world-bank-raises-aid-to-the-horn-of-africa http://randome.info/world-bank-raises-aid-to-the-horn-of-africa

NewsDaily: World Bank boosts Horn of Africa aid to $1.88 billion
NewsDaily (2011-09-25) -- The World Bank said on Saturday it was more than tripling funding to $1.88 billion for a "worsening" drought in Horn of Africa countries affecting over 13 million people. ... > read full article

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:54:00 -0700 Original RanDome Presentation 2003 http://randome.info/original-randome-presentation-2003-38433 http://randome.info/original-randome-presentation-2003-38433

This video clip, courtesy of videographer and graphic designer Victor Acevedo of Acevedomedia, is from inventor Dick Fischbeck's original presentation: "Introducing The RanDome" at the Synergetics Collaborative's first Symposium in 2003 -- "A Fuller Explanation: Building on Amy Edmonson's Explanation of The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller" -- at Design Science Toys (25 Jan 2003). An interesting discussion arose during the presentation as to the true "geodesity" of this new type of dome shelter. The random arrangements of vertices obeys Descartes' angular deficit formula (the sum of the angular deficits of the vertices of a closed convex body is equal to 720°) and is the basis of the RanDome building method. The RanDome was granted a patent in 2008 and is licensed under the Creative Commons meaning that anyone can build and distribute the structure for non-commercial purposes.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:23:00 -0700 Tent Cities http://randome.info/69822847 http://randome.info/69822847
What a great collection of photos from Taco Flats homeless camp in Fresno by Mathieu Young .. His other works are equally fantastic.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:15:00 -0700 Freddie Mercury and Pressure http://randome.info/fredd http://randome.info/fredd
"Do children ask to be homeless?"  "Do soldiers who fought and were crippled fighting in our wars deserve to be humiliated?" "Do battered mothers deserve to lose their children when fleeing their abusers? Does a person who has fallen into addiction or suffers mental ilness deserve to beaten, raped or set on fire? There are many different reasons why a person becomes homeless. Those who have never had the misfortune of getting caught in the sometimes uncontrollable spiral which leads to the loss of a safe place to live may simply "turn away like a blind man" as the lyrics say.  This reaction is common - moreso in times of economic crisis where insecurity begets nonsolidarity. But to those of you who chalk homelessness off to, "They're all lazy" or "They're all nuts." or "They're all addicts." or even "They like being homeless."  Think again.  For more information  and statistics visit the National Coalition for the Homeless and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Here is some general information and reported cases of violence against the homeless from the National Coalition for the Homeless . Certainly other cases go unreported.

"WHO COMMITS HATE CRIMES AND VIOLENT ACTS AGAINST THE HOMELESS? Most hate crimes/violent acts are committed not by organized hate groups, but by individual citizens who harbor a strong resentment against a certain group of people. Some are “mission offenders,” who believe they are on a mission to cleanse the world of a particular evil. Others are “scapegoat offenders,” who violently act out their resentment toward the perceived growing economic power of a particular racial or ethnic group. Still others are “thrill seekers,” those who take advantage of a vulnerable and disadvantaged group in order to satisfy their own pleasures. Thrill seekers, primarily in their teens, are the most common perpetrators of violence against people who are homeless.   Eighty per cent of hate crimes/violence against homeless persons in 2009 were committed by perpetrators under the age of thirty.

In 2009:
Total Number of Violent Acts in 2009: 117
Total Number of Non-Lethal Attacks: 74
Total Number of Lethal Attacks: 43  
Breakdown of 2009 Non-Lethal Attacks:
Beatings: 67%
Rapes/Sexual Assaults: 13%
Setting Victim on Fire: 8%
Shootings: 6%
Police Harassment/Brutality 6%"

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/hesfJjg7hlzuO Fabianna Dardati Petit Poix Fabianna Dardati Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:47:00 -0700 RanDome to be Exhibited at the Annual MOFGA Fair http://randome.info/67537568 http://randome.info/67537568

The annual Common Ground Country Fair of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) begins on Friday, September 23, 2011 and continues through the weekend. RanDome will be there with a version of it's patented geodesic shelter in corrugated polyethylene plastic.  Stop by the booth to meet RanDome inventor Richard Fischbeck and learn hands on how to make a RanDome emergency shelter at our educational geodesic activities table. Polyethylene is a very lightweight yet resistant material used to make a well known type of fishing boat.   How resistant is polyethylene plastic you ask?  When RanDome conducted it's search for yet another lightweight resistant material to use instead of aluminum for the upcoming fair we stopped by Hamilton Marine in Unity, Maine to ask some questions.  The salesman told us of an incident where a small polyethylene boat was on display outside the store.  A man in a pick up truck drove in, grabbed the boat, threw it on his truck and sped away. The police were immediately contacted and a chase ensued.  During the pursuit the boat flew off the pick up truck, bounced off the front of an 18-wheeler truck and bounced along the road finally coming to rest on the shoulder.  Fortunately no one was injured and the was returned to the store it was in almost perfect condition. It was placed directly back on display for the next interested store visitor. A few minor scratches were later quickly repaired by applying heat. In 2010 the MOFGA fair drew nearly 60,000 visitors over the entire weekend.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/4wEWX7fgFj33 Richard Fischbeck randomeshelter Richard Fischbeck Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:39:00 -0700 Already this year, 135,000 Somalis have fled their country; 54,000 in June alone. http://randome.info/already-this-year-135000-somalis-have-fled-th http://randome.info/already-this-year-135000-somalis-have-fled-th
Q. What is the condition of the thousands of people arriving each day at the UNHCR camps in Kenya and Ethiopia?
We have never seen this level of malnutrition. Kids are arriving in terrible shape. Between 45 and 55% of children arriving in Ethiopia and 30 to 40% arriving in Kenya are malnourished. This is unprecedented.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/4wEWX7fgFj33 Richard Fischbeck randomeshelter Richard Fischbeck Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:40:31 -0700 More giant refugee camps coming http://randome.info/more-giant-refugee-camps-coming http://randome.info/more-giant-refugee-camps-coming
Portable villages are becoming very familiar to us all around the world.


"Some 150 workers toiled in scorching heat by the village of Apaydin, some 10 kilometres (six miles) from the frontier, scrambling to expand a Red Crescent camp where more than 200 tents have already been erected. Another 1,000 tents will be ready in a week on the cleaned and levelled plot of 300 hectares (750 acres), claimed from pasture land, “in case of a massive influx” of Syrians, said village headman Omer Cagatay."

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/missing-user-75.png http://posterous.com/users/4wEWX7fgFj33 Richard Fischbeck randomeshelter Richard Fischbeck Sun, 22 May 2011 12:36:00 -0700 How to Build a RanDome Geodesic Emergency Shelter http://randome.info/how-to-build-a-randome-geodesic-emergency-she http://randome.info/how-to-build-a-randome-geodesic-emergency-she

Flatten the sheet material as best as possible with a hammer or other heavy object. Aluminum is the best choice for material for its resistance to fire, water, UV rays, insects and deterioration. In an emergency situation however, you must search your surroundings to find any lightweight, flexible sheet materials. A variety of materials can be combined into one structure if necessary. Consider street signs, corrugated steel roof shingles,  upholstery, cardboard, plywood or plastic soda bottles... View Full Article

 

 

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Clean Safe Environment For All!

CLEAN SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL!

What I would like to do someday is to help third world countries by building safe homes and clean water wells so kids can live healthier lives. I would encourage others that have what they need to donate food and supplies to help the needed. So I ask you to take time to help others in need.

 

Name: Paige Jordan

Age: 14

School: Dayton City School

City, State: Dayton, Tennessee

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Bucky called this, "Structuring as you go." It is the way Nature does her building. Nature doesn't start with a master plan. Nature builds until it is done or until the materials run out, which ever comes first.

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