Patricia Ravasio

Writer and author of The Girl from Spaceship Earth, a memoir of her encounters with Buckminster Fuller.

Patricia Ravasio is an American writer who, as a young woman, spent time in conversation with Buckminster Fuller and later drew on those exchanges for her memoir The Girl from Spaceship Earth. The book frames Fuller's ideas about humanity's shared planetary predicament through the lens of a personal, firsthand encounter, presenting his "Spaceship Earth" worldview to a general readership.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Ravasio's tie to R. Buckminster Fuller is that of a firsthand witness who turned her conversations with him into a written record. Her memoir The Girl from Spaceship Earth recounts what Fuller said to her and how it shaped her thinking, placing her among the many writers who have preserved and transmitted his ideas — his notion of "Spaceship Earth" in particular — after having met him in person.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.