Jacque Fresco is an industrial designer and social engineer. He’s also active in the field of Human Factors, where he developed an integrated social system.
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The Venus Project reflects the culmination of Mr. Fresco’s life work: the integration of the best of science and technology into a comprehensive plan for a new society based on human and environmental concern. It is a global vision of hope for the future of humankind in our technological age. Mr. Fresco was a guest lecturer at many institutions of higher learning. He addressed students at the University of Miami, Princeton, University of Southern California, Dade Junior College, Queens College, Presbyterian College, University of Southern Florida, Nichols College, Columbia University, Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey of Mexico, Institute of Technology in Vienna, Austria, Penn State Greater Allegheny, Nova Southeastern University, City London University, University of Michigan, and others. He and Ralph Nader were featured guest lecturers at the University of South Florida. At Princeton University, Mr. Fresco addressed the Department of Sociology. His subject was Sociology of the Future. Along with the well-known anthropologist Margaret Mead, Mr. Fresco was extended an invitation to address the College Environment Conference in Washington, DC. He was a guest speaker for the Tenth Symposium for the Civil Engineering Department of TEC de Monterrey University in Monterrey, Mexico, Latin America’s top rated college. Mr. Fresco was a guest speaker at The Utopian Studies Conference in Orlando, FL and lectured at several World Future Society Conferences. He was also guest speaker at a conference in Iceland and the guest of honor at The Futurists Summit 2008 in Istanbul, Turkey, as well as many other conferences, such as the Futurist Convention, Global Sciences Conference, the Future By Design’s Transitions ’96 Conference, and the Global Cleansweep and Solarsweep forum in Florida. He was a guest lecturer on future planning in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at the Technical University in Vienna, and at the conference at Dalian, China for the Development of N.E. China, as well as a conference at Abuja in Nigeria for the revitalization of its informal sector. Over the years, Mr. Fresco has also delivered lectures to numerous civic groups and various other organizations, such as B’nai B’rith of Los Angeles (CA) and Miami (FL), Mensa of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, the Humanist Society, the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara (CA), the Spinoza Outdoor Forum of Miami (FL), Unitarian Universalist Church in Daytona (FL), and others. In recent years, he delivered lectures at COP Kreativ, Copenhagen, Denmark; City London University, London, UK; and El Salvador, San Salvador. He was awarded the 2009 International Design Award from a! Diseño and lectured at their Life Loves Design conference in Ixtapa, Mexico. In 2009 and 2010 Fresco addressed supporters at the annual Z-Day event in New York. In 2010, he began a World Lecture Tour in which he presented over 26 lectures in 20 countries. It was very well received. In 2011, Mr. Fresco addressed the public for Occupy Miami at Government Center in Miami. In 2012, he was honored at Sustainatopia in Miami. In September 2012, Fresco addressed supporters in Banja Luka, Bosnia, and the Galactic Citizenship Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia. He also addressed the audience at the New Jack City Festival. In July 2016, less than a year before his death, the United Nations bestowed an award for City Design & Community. In early 2017, Florida’s Baker Museum of Artis—Naples honored Fresco’s life by featuring a five-month exhibit called “Jacque Fresco: 100 Years of Vision” consisting of a timeline chronicling Fresco’s life and work, curated by Silvia Perea. We have all heard lectures that downgrade the present state of affairs. They speak of such social problems as lawlessness, poverty, racial tension and divorce. But how many of us can recall any of these lectures offering creative solutions to these problems? Mr. Fresco’s presentations reflect a serious attempt to illuminate the causes and outline a wide range of constructive alternatives. He did this by presenting a redesign of our culture, one that would emphasize the intelligent use of science and technology to enhance the lives of all people while protecting our environment. His subjects range from “New Dimensions in Human Stupidity” to “Imagineering The Future.” A video often accompanies the lectures where his ideas are vividly brought to life through animated models, illustrations and computer animation. His particular lecture technique enables uninformed audiences to grasp the significance of complex social and technical issues through his use of analogy, example, and anecdote. He speaks dramatically and passionately about the urgent transitional problems facing our contemporary society. His audiences find their attention focused closely on the words of Mr. Fresco from brilliant beginning to profound end. Mr. Fresco’s lectures have consistently been received with praise and enthusiasm. Mr. Fresco was the founder of Sociocyberneering, Inc., now known as the Venus Project. With his associate Roxanne Meadows, he designed and built the entire twenty-five acre research facility. The function of this project is to prepare approaches and solutions to the major problems that confront the world today. Television, newspaper, and magazine coverage on the project has been worldwide. Jacque Fresco died on May 18th, 2017. Today, Roxanne Meadows directs The Venus Project. She is available for lectures. For more information, contact her. Professional Positions Aircraft Designer for the Northrop Division of Douglas Aircraft, Los Angeles, California, 1939 Design consultant to Gilbert McGill and Rotor Craft Helicopter Company, Los Angeles, California, 1939 Design consultant to Fred Landgraf for Landgraf Helicopter Co., Los Angeles, California Co-creator of Revel Plastics Company with Lou Glaser, 1941 Designer in the Army Air Force Design and Development Unit, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1941-1944 Design Developer of experimental equipment for behavioral scientist, Keller Breland Director of Scientific Research Laboratories, Los Angeles, California, 1945-1955 Architectural Designer of pre-fabricated industrial buildings for Houser Industrial Co., Los Angeles, California Architectural Designer for Trend Homes, Inc., Los Angeles, California, 1945-1948 Design Developer of three-dimensional projection systems for Paramount producer Jack Moss, 1949 Research Engineer for Raymond De-Icer Corp., Los Angeles, California, 1951-1952 Technical Consultant to the Motion Picture Industry, including technical advisor and effects creator for the film Project Moonbase (1953) written by Robert A. Heinlein; for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films for Joe Stoneman Productions; and for Camera Eye Pictures, Inc., for the film, The Naked Eye (1956), which won the Robert J. Flaherty Award for creative film documentary and was nominated for an Academy Award. Colleague and work associate of Donald Powell Wilson of Los Angeles, the noted psychologist who wrote My Six Convicts. Industrial Design Instructor at the Art Center School in Hollywood, California Design Consultant for Major Realty Co. and Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa), 1961 Design Developer of electronic devices for the Parkinson’s Institute of Miami, 1965-1966 Creator of Jacque Fresco Enterprises, Inc. for the development of prefabricated aluminum devices, 1967-1968 Founder and Director of Sociocyberneering, Inc., Miami, Florida, the forerunner to the Venus Project, 1971-1994 Founder of the Venus Project, Venus, Florida, 1994-present Books Authored Looking Forward co-authored with Kenneth Keyes Jr., (1969) A.S. Barnes & Company Introduction to Sociocyberneering, (1977) Sociocyberneering, Inc. (out of print) Structural Systems and Systems of Structure, (1979) Sociocyberneering, Inc. (out of print) The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture, (1995) Global Cybervisions *World Future Society best-seller And The World Will Be One, (1997) (unpublished) The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War, (2002) Global Cybervisions Designing the Future, (2007) The Venus Project, Inc. Videos Produced, Written, or Filmed The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture (1994) – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows. Welcome To The Future (2001) [Trailer | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows. Cities In The Sea (2002) [Trailer | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows. Self-erecting Structures (2002) [Trailer | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows. Designing the Future (2006) – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows. Paradise or Oblivion (2012) [Trailer | Full | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows. Movies featured in A major documentary entitled Future By Design, produced by Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning filmmaker, William Gazecki, was released in 2006 and outlined the life, designs, and philosophy of Mr. Fresco. The film Zeitgeist: Addendum featuring Mr. Fresco and The Venus Project produced by Musician and Film Maker Peter Joseph was released in 2008. A sequel to this film, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, was produced in 2011 featuring Mr. Fresco’s aims and directions. The documentary Paradise or Oblivion, produced by Roxanne Meadows, introduces the culmination of Jacque Fresco’s work, and viable solutions for the future. The Choice is Ours (2016) produced and directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt delves into how we acquire our behaviors and values, the environment that influences them today and the possibilities of a social system arrived at by Jacque Fresco which is designed to bring out the best in the human potential. Inventions and Designs Many of these projects have been patented and have had wide commercial acceptance. Systems for noiseless and pollution free aircraft, 1939-1944 Boundary layer control and electrodynamic methods for aircraft control that dispenses with ailerons, elevators, rudders, and flaps, 1939-1944 Experimental equipment for behavioral scientist, Keller Breland, circa 1945 Pre-fabricated industrial buildings for Houser Industrial Co., circa 1945 12 variations of an aluminum “Trend Home”, a prefabricated house designed and developed for Mike Shore, Earl Muntz, Dan Rayes, and Harry Mayslish, of Trend Homes, Inc., 1945-1948 Numerous components and systems for architectural construction, 1946-1961 A new structural bracing system for aircraft wings, commissioned by the U.S. Air Force, 1947 Principle technique for three-dimensional x-ray units and for viewing three-dimensional film and television projection without the use of glasses, for Paramount producers Jack Moss and Irving Yergin, offered to Technicolor, 1949 Electrostatic system controls for aircraft and the elimination of sonic boom for Raymond De-Icer, 1951-1952 Electrostatic anti-icing system for Raymond De-Icer Co., 1951-1952 Twin Pontoon Outboard Surf Rider – 10′ long, weight 160 lbs., without motor developed for Joe Abaloe Prefabricated aluminum “Sandwich” houses for Major Realty Corporation in collaboration with Aluminum Company of America, 1961 A three-wheel low cost motor vehicle developed for Charles Stuart Motor Co. of Miami, consisting of only 32 parts, 1961 Experimental electronic devices for The Parkinson’s Institute of Miami, 1965-1966 Structural Y-Frame Shelters developed for Allan Sanford of The Sanford Company, 1968 Medical Devices and prosthetics for Dr. Irving Fixel, 1974 A second three-wheel low cost motor vehicle developed for A.D. Bessemer, 1974 Dental equipment and office accessories for Dr. George Graham Various products, such as, the Volk Pipe, pre-fabricated extruded display cabinets, record reel dispenser for magnetic tapes, 180° hinge, vectograph displayer, enclosed sanitary sleeping chamber, ultraviolet germicidal lamp, serving tray, snap together lamp, high impact safety helmet, electronic surgical instruments for the medical field, 1941-1968 Numerous extruded aluminum devices, including, Utilitarian Draftsman Rack, Pencil Rack, Draftsman Scale – 12″ to 36”, Smokers Pipe Rack, Cigarette Holder, Dual Straightedge, Comb, 1967-68 Designed and built a wide variety of reinforced concrete structures, 1979-2007 Jacque Fresco’s appearances Books and PeriodicalsJournalsNewspapers & Web NewsMagazines Contributing author to the book Explore All Possibilities by Jack Frank, 2011 Feature contributing author to the book In the Shadow of War edited by Arthur Shostak Ph.D. 2004 Feature contributing author to the book Viable Utopian Ideas: Shaping A Better World edited by Arthur Shostak Ph.D. 2003 Wrote the preface and was featured in the book Transforming The Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies by Elliott Maynard, Ph.D. 2003 Feature article, Engineering a New Vision of Tomorrow in the 2002 January – February issue of The Futurist Feature contributing author in Utopian Thinking in Sociology: Creating the Good Society, an instructional text book published by the American Sociological Association, 2001 Feature article, Designing the Future: A Cybernetic City for the Next Century in the 1994 May – June issue of the World Future Society’s magazine, The Futurist, where the editors compared his work with R. Buckminster Fuller and Paolo Soleri. Feature article, Science in 1980 in Florida Living Magazine, 1961 Feature article, Project Americana: Man in the World of Tomorrow in Feedback the journal of the Human Factors Society, 1961 Fresco’s work has been reviewed in: Rearrangements (2013) by Bob Schilling Conscious Spending, Conscious Life: An Uncommon Guide to Navigating the Consumer Culture (2013) by Laurana Rayne Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment (2013) by Robert Crocker & Steffen Lehmann The Transcending Mind: Claiming Your Place within the Emerging Global Community of Man (2012) by A.J. Hakim Yamini Screwing Mother Nature For Profit: How Corporations Betray Our Trust – And Why the New Biology Offers an Ethical and Sustainable Future (2011) by Elaine Smitha Building Wealth with Silver (2011) by Thomas Herold Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition (2011) by Charles Eisenstein Santa Claus is Alive and Well and Living on Wall Street (2011) by Bruce Gauthier Rings of Venus (2011) by Pat McCord Los Angeles In World War II (2011) by Ruth Wallach, et al Fractured Reality (2010) by Jeanne Henderson The World I Dream Of (2010) by Curt Butz Feeding People (2010) by Leon Aarts Conceptual Physics 11th edition (2009) by Paul G. Hewitt Good Design: Deconstructing Form and Function and What Makes Good Design Work (2009) by Terry Marks & Matthew Porter Formulas For Now (2008) by Hans-Ulrich Obrist Conceptual Physical Science 4th edition (2008) Paul G. Hewitt Anticipate the School You Want: Futurizing K-12 Education (2008) by Arthur B. Shostak Beyond Earth: The Future of Humans in Space (2006) by Robert M. Krone Things I Know Now that I Wish I’d Known Then (2006) by George Newman How the World Will Change with Global Warming (2006) by Trausti Valsson Moving Along: Far Ahead (Tackling Tomorrow Today) (2005) by Arthur Shostak Transforming the Global Biosphere: Twelve Futuristic Strategies (2003) by Elliot Maynard Bradbury: an Illustrated Life (2002) by Jerry Weist Are Humans Obsolete?: How To Deal With What May Come (2002) Jim Hull Fat Man On The Left: Four Decades in the Underground (1998) by Lionel Rolfe Keep Watching the Skies: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, Vol. 1: 1950-1957 (1997) by Bill Wareen There is a Way to Peace and Social Justice (1995) by Melford Pearson Plato’s Ideal City as the Archetype for Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti and Jacque Fresco’s Looking Forward (1995) by William E. Key-Nee The Dream Machines: An Illustrated History of the Spaceship in Art, Science and Literature (1993) by Ron Miller Walden Three (1988) by Jack Catran Is There Intelligent Life On Earth (1980) by Jack Catran Maverick Inventor: My Turbulent Years at CBS (1973) by Peter C. Goldmark The School in American Society (1973) by Ralph Linnaeus Pounds & James R. Bryner The Age of Flying Saucers: Notes on a Projected History of Unidentified Flying Objects (1971) by Paris Flammonde Behind the Flying Saucers (1950) by Frank Scully Fresco’s work has been reviewed in: Internet Journal of Criminology, 2013 Problems of Economic Transition, 2013 Scientific Publications of the Jagiellonian University, 2013 Preceedings of the Interdisciplinarity in Engineering International Conference, 2012 Proceedings of Environmental Conference 2012, 2012 Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, 2012 Journal of Environmental Protection, 2012 Ephemeris of Christ University, 2012 Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Natural Resource Management, 2012 Control Automation and Systems Engineering, 2011 Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2011 Society and Business Review, 2011 Modern Architecture and Information Technology, 2011 Proceedings of the International Conference on Oral Tradition, 2010 Socialist Standard, 2011, 2010, 2008 Future Orientation, 2010, 2010 Information Technologies and International Development, 2010 Earth Charter +10 Event Report. 2010 Proceedings of International Symposium Foundations of a New Civilization, 2010 Exopolitics Journal, 2009 Eye: the International Review of Graphic Design, 2009 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Communications in Computer and Information Science, (2009) International Journal of Small Economies, 2009 Annals of the University Of Craiova, 2009 Journal of Visual Culture, 2007 Library Journal, 2007, 1970 Video Librarian, 2007, 1998 Performance Research, 2006 Nebula, 2004 The Futurist, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2002, 1995, 1994 Journal of Synergetic Society, 1996 Instructional Technology Research Online, 1994 Acta Astronautica, 1993 Proceedings of the International Conference on Mental Images, Values, & Reality, 1986 American Journal of Physics, 1983 Etc. Review of General Semantics, 1972 Fresco’s work has been reviewed in: The Korea Times (2022) New York Times, (NY, USA), 2017, 2009, 1961 Futurism.com, 2017 Kobini (USA), 2017 De Morgen (Belgium) Shifter (Portugal), 2017 Bloomberg (USA), 2016 The Sun, (UK), 2013 BBC News, (UK), 2013 Lincoln Journal Star, (NE, USA), 2013, 2002, 1956 Huffington Post, (New York, NY, USA), 2016, 2016, 2013, 2010 Harian Vokal (Daily Vocal), (Indonesia), 2013 The Global Times, (India), 2013 Georgian Times, (Georgia), 2013 Diaro Co Latino, (El Salvidor), 2013 Rocky Mountain Collegian, (CO, USA), 2012 Колпино-Сити (Kolpino City), (Russia), 2012 Ara (Now), (Spain), 2012 Student Printz, (MS, USA), 2012 La Catarina, (Mexico), 2012 Dnevni Avaz (Daily Avaz), (Bosnia), 2012 Φιλυρέα (Filyrea), (Greece), 2012 Il Grigione Italiano (The Italian Grisons), (Italy), 2012 Südostschweiz, (Switzerland), 2012 Bathimpact, (UK), 2012 The Zeitgeist, (FL, USA), 2012 The Marker, (… truncated (21,280 more characters in archive)