Jacque Fresco
Designer, inventor, and futurist who advocated the redesign of culture and cities in harmony with nature.
His visionary concepts were relevant in the context of the energy and materials available and the global population of his era. The achievability of his ideas was grounded in a deep understanding of the contemporary socio-economic landscape. Fresco presented a forward-thinking response to the era’s challenges.
Anticipating the unsustainable trajectory of the world, Fresco forged an alternative path centered on sustainable resource management. His approach addressed multifaceted challenges encompassing consumerism, waste, irresponsible resource stewardship, war, poverty, and political issues. By offering a comprehensive and preemptive approach, Fresco’s ideas were seen as far ahead of their time. His proposals advocated strategic actions to prevent the world from continuing its current trajectory exemplified by the BAU2 scenario presented in the Limits to Growth.
Jacque Fresco – Visions of the Future (1990)
Creating more Opportunities through Planning with Science and Technology
Fresco’s work founded the intentions of The Venus Project and continues to inspire the scope of its concerns. Fresco focused on designing to accord with Earth’s carrying capacity and innovation to expand this capacity. He maintained a central focus on the detrimental effects of scarcity on all aspects of human behavior and society and emphasized science and technology’s role in generating abundance where possible to fulfill human needs. Fresco reasoned that only a global approach would be effective and envisioned a global design for civilization’s woes and established the broadest potential scope within which The Venus Project presently analyzes problems and conceives responses. Fresco set forth a set of distinct values that, above all, remain most enduring in The Venus Project’s present work.
The Choice is Ours (2016) Official Full Version
Paradise or Oblivion
Jacque Fresco’s professional background includes work as a designer in the aerospace industry, human factors engineering, industrial design, and architectural design. His other occupations have included research engineer, technical illustration instructor, technical design consultant, psychological consultant, science educator, inventor, futurist, filmmaker, and author.
Fresco’s interdisciplinary training has led to countless innovations ranging from small biomedical instruments to massive total city systems. His integration of science, art, philosophy, and social engineering has constituted a consilient vision for planetary planning that he called a Global Resource Based Economy.
JACQUE FRESCO The Venus Project
Jacque Fresco – Introduction to Sociocyberneering – Larry King (1974)
Across his lifetime, Fresco communicated his vision through five books, seven self-produced films, and innumerable presentations to civic groups, film festivals, conferences, and universities across the United States and in over 25 countries worldwide. Many of these presentations are preserved in thousands of hours of recorded media. His work has been featured in over 1,000 publications and 20 widely acclaimed films.
Fresco’s presentations reflect a serious attempt to both illuminate the causes of social problems and to outline a wide variety of constructive alternatives. His particular lecture technique enables uninformed audiences to grasp the significance of complex social and technical issues through his use of analogy, example, anecdote, and visual illustration in an informal style.
In 1971, Fresco founded Sociocyberneeing, a not-for-profit organization, and in 1995 co-founded the culmination of his lifework, The Venus Project. Starting in 1980, together with his associate Roxanne Meadows, they constructed ten buildings based on his designs, establishing a twenty-one acre center in Venus, Florida. Here they produced videos, books, models, renderings, blueprints and much more depicting Fresco’s designs of future possibilities.
Books Authored
*Looking Forward co-authored with Kenneth Keyes Jr., (1969) A.S. Barnes & Company
*Introduction to Sociocyberneering, (1977) Sociocyberneering, Inc.
*Structural Systems and Systems of Structure, (1979) Sociocyberneering, Inc.
*The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture, (1995) Global Cybervisions *World Future Society and The World Will Be One, (1997)
*The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War, (2002) Global Cybervisions
*Designing the Future, (2007) The Venus Project, Inc.
Films Produced
1) The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture (1994)
2) Welcome To The Future (2001)
3) Cities In The Sea (2002)
4) Self-erecting Structures (2002)
5) Designing the Future (2006)
6) Paradise or Oblivion (2012
His professional resume, designs and inventions you can find it here https://www.frescofoundation.org/biography
Official websites: https://www.thevenusproject.com and https://www.frescofoundation.org