Dymaxion airocean world: the Raleigh edition of Fuller projection

Buckminster Fuller, artist and cartographer

1895–1983

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Shoji Sadao, cartographer

1927–2019

Dymaxion airocean world: the Raleigh edition of Fuller projection, 1954

Material/technique: color halftone

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Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 514 x 842 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 572 x 891 mm

Credit line: T.R. Smith Map Collection, Anschutz Library, The University of Kansas Libraries

Accession number: EL2025.056

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Soundings: Making Culture at Sea

Amidst the escalating tensions of the Cold War, architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller made a map that imagined the world not as a series of national borders but as an interconnected environmental and human space. His Dymaxion airocean map emphasizes the connections between all the continents, with the ocean flowing around them. Color shows the relationship of ecological environments by tracking temperature across the globe. In a period of human divisions, Fuller’s projection emphasized a unified world.