Medard Gabel

American systems researcher and educator, former executive director of the World Game Institute and founder of BigPictureSmallWorld and the Global Solutions Lab — the person who did the most to institutionalize and extend Fuller's World Game.

Gabel worked directly with Fuller on the World Game — the participatory simulation for allocating world resources to "make the world work for 100% of humanity" — and went on to lead it after Fuller. His subsequent organizations (EarthGame, the Global Solutions Lab, the Cornucopia Project) apply the same data-rich, whole-Earth, solutions-oriented method to food, energy, and development, including regenerative-agriculture work for governments.

Role in Fuller's orbit

Gabel is a direct collaborator and institutional heir: he turned Fuller's World Game from a demonstration into a durable teaching and research practice, and remains its foremost living exponent. His work is the operational continuation of Fuller's design-science, resource-accounting program.

See Also

• 50 Years of the Design Science Revolution and the World Game (50 Years…) — the World Game volume Gabel's work extends
• Pilot for Spaceship Earth (Pilot for Spaceship Earth) — account of the Spaceship-Earth/World-Game program Gabel carried forward
• World Game Institute (World Game Institute) — the Institute he directed
• Buckminster Fuller Institute (Buckminster Fuller Institute) — the legacy design-science org in the same tradition
• John McHale (John McHale) — World Design Science Decade co-director with Fuller

Sources

• Medard Gabel (source reference) — Zotero People collection (Wikipedia entry)