[SNEC] 2016 Cosmic Fishing Award recipient Dennis Dreher has died

[CJ Fearnley]

Dennis Dreher (25 December 1942 - 22 July 2018) was a frequent
participant, presenter, and collaborator at several Synergetics
Collaborative events. Dennis worked with Buckmister Fuller. He was
a recipient of a Cosmic Fishing Award confered at the Fifth Biennial
Design Science Symposium on "STEAM Intelligence" in April of 2016.

Nick Tomlin reports that A Celebration of Life Event is being planned
for the 27th of April 2019.

Dennis' obituary was posted in the Sun Journal on Sunday:
http://www.sunjournal.com/dennis-dreher/

To find out more about his life and work, here is his web site:
http://www.dennisdreher.com/

These videos were associated with his participation at Design Science Symposia
at RISD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1CqOfyTVi4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRccTVCOdqA

A video on the Octa-Jitterbug from Dennis' web site:
http://www.dennisdreher.com/Octa-Jitterbug/Octa-Jitterbug1.mp4

George Mokray prepared this video of Dennis' geometric wire and marble
sculptures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iULU6Jlwbo

A video on Dennis' Rings Jitterbug:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBvNl8nGuw

-- 
The most important fact about Spaceship Earth:
an instruction manual didn't come with it.
--- R. Buckminster Fuller

CJ Fearnley                         |  Executive Director
cjf at SynergeticsCollaborative.org    |  Synergetics Collaborative
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