At 100 years of age Fresco’s work was displayed at the prestigious Artis Museum in Naples, Florida. The exhibit’s curator, Silvia Perrea, a graduate school professor of architecture stated that Jacque Fresco was the most prolific architectural designer she had ever seen.

In the last 47 years of his life (and much was lost before that) he produced 5,500 design sketches covering broad ranges of society with 3,851 in city, building, and home designs alone, over 400 scale models, and accumulated over 900 hours of lectures on diverse subject matters. All of this work during this time has been digitized and archived by Nathanael Dinwiddie.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/portfolio/past-works-by-the-venus-project/

How much do you know about the co-founder of The Venus Project?

Roxanne Meadows worked with futurist Jacque Fresco for 41 years to develop and promote The Venus Project. The function of this project is to develop and implement alternative solutions to the many problems that confront the world today. She participated in many ways, from organizing and designing books, producing and editing eight documentaries, co-writing articles, co-designing the interior, and doing a large part of the construction of the 10 buildings of The Venus Project’s 21-acre Center in Florida.

She prepared blueprints, models, and renderings for various city designs and other proposals presented by The Venus Project.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/board-of-directors/

Have you seen Roxanne Meadow's resume? It reflects an extensive history assisting Jacque Fresco in the formative years of The Venus Project.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/the-venus-project/roxanne-meadows/

Have you met the board of directors of The Venus Project?

Nate Dinwiddie encountered the work of Jacque Fresco at an early age. An enduring fascination with Fresco’s biography and body of work, Nate, as a documentarian, interviewed over 30 associates of historical and contemporary significance to Fresco’s life and to The Venus Project. This research gave extensive insight that preserves institutional continuity and memory.

Nate collected and digitized Fresco’s body of work to preserve and access Jacque Fresco’s 80 years of research and design. The archive includes audio and video recordings, photographic material, visual renderings, technical illustrations, publicity documents, personal papers, physical models, and data media. Nate further organized a transcription project to transcribe the hundreds of hours of Jacque Fresco’s lectures.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/board-of-directors/

Have you met the board of directors of The Venus Project?

As a child at the tail end of apartheid South Africa, Theofilos Chaldezos witnessed grave injustice, sparking a quest for solutions. A video from The Zeitgeist Movement led him to Jacque Fresco’s visionary ideas. This introduction evolved into a deep immersion in Fresco’s teachings and exploration beyond conventional boundaries, marking a transformative journey toward innovative solutions.

The pivotal moment came in 2013, as Theo stepped onto the grounds of The Venus Project’s center in Venus, Florida. Here, he connected with the essence of the project and began his learning through The Mentor Program (a course that The Venus Project offered). Theo’s passion for learning and sharing knowledge took center stage. When the original mentor departed, Theo was allowed to transform the course into the dynamic Sociocyberneering Education Project.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/board-of-directors/

Have you met the board of directors of The Venus Project?

Borislav Zlatanov learned about the concept of a Global Resource Based Economy in 2009, upon which he volunteered to help make this vision a reality. He has embraced developing an interdisciplinary skill set as a necessary approach to making progress on the global challenges facing humanity today.

As a software engineer and server administrator, he learned an engineering way of thinking, which plays an essential role in problem-solving. Whether automating everyday operations or imagining and implementing new ways of doing things, having an interdisciplinary perspective helps him design solutions based on the underlying human needs and organizational workflows.

Borislav was instrumental in initiating the TVP Integrated Aquaponics System and is a key driver in the R&D team.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/board-of-directors

The Venus Project envisions a world that:
• Coincides with the carrying capacity of Earth
• Favors scientific method as a source of explanations
• Relies on engineering to improve human life on Earth
• Coordinates all people to transcend national borders
• Fulfills the necessities of life, education, health, and culture
• Treats resources as common heritage and engages in equitable resource sharing
• Addresses problems via prevention using a systems approach
• Shares and applies new technologies for the benefit of life
• Prioritizes the production of high-quality, long-lasting products
• Restores and enhances the natural biosystems and ecosystem services
• Stabilizes the world’s population through education and voluntary birth control
• Withstands and adapts to change

https://www.thevenusproject.com/concepts/vision/

The Venus Project envisions a world without:
• War
• Poverty
• Crime
• Prisons
• Police
• Military
• Money
• Debt
• Servitude
• Disease
• Polution
• Prejudice
• Artificial Scarcity
• Nation-States
• Market-States
• Nationalism
• Elitism
• Perverse Incentives

https://www.thevenusproject.com/concepts/vision/

The Venus Project has simplified and updated its list of FAQs. Check it out:
https://www.thevenusproject.com/learn/faq/

If you have not seen The Venus Project's recommended booklist, be sure to consider several new contemporary sources.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/learn/recommended-books-films-and-videos/

Jacque Fresco describes solving the pernicious and perennial problems of 'the human condition' as being a key theme of his work.

https://youtu.be/fqNUtIDdPHQ

Every problem of the human condition can be attributed to scarcity. Attention turns to innovating methods of managing well-being within the existing constraints of natural law and resources. Crime, corruption, ignorance, and poverty tend to prevail when such methods of innovation are nonexistent or fail. From human mortality to Earth’s carrying capacity, indispensable but all too forgotten in managing wellbeing is the fact of ‘limits’.

https://www.thevenusproject.com/concepts/knowledge/problems-predicaments/

‘Race to the bottom,’ ‘arms race,’ ‘ends justify the means’, ‘vicious circle,’ and ‘perverse incentives,’ these all too familiar phrases owe their origin to game dynamics that favor ‘first movers’ or ‘corner cutters’ or ‘defectors.’ Collectively, these contingencies as a phenomenon have earned the symbolic nickname 'Moloch' and are among the most challenging dynamics to overcome. How does The Venus Project meet this challenge?

Read more about the Moloch concept: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/moloch

https://www.thevenusproject.com/concepts/knowledge/problems-predicaments/

Daniel Schmachtenberger and Liv Boeree discuss the concept of Moloch on the Win-Win podcast. https://youtu.be/KCSsKV5F4xc?si=ZLLOIhHCG6VA3elo&t=181

Moloch is the personification of the forces that coerce competing individuals to take actions which, although locally optimal, ultimately lead to situations where everyone is worse off. Moreover, no individual is able to unilaterally break out of the dynamic. The situation is a bad Nash equilibrium. A trap.

It happens when "In some competition optimizing for X, the opportunity arises to throw some other value under the bus for improved X. Those who take it prosper. Those who don’t take it die out. Eventually, everyone’s relative status is about the same as before, but everyone’s absolute status is worse than before. The process continues until all other values that can be traded off have been – in other words, until human ingenuity cannot possibly figure out a way to make things any worse." - Scott Alexander

Pollution, environmental degradation, accelerated extinction, resource depletion, overpopulation, population collapse, and war are all symptoms of the fundamental species-level disorder known as ‘overshoot’. How does The Venus Project meet this challenge?

https://www.thevenusproject.com/concepts/knowledge/problems-predicaments/

Daniel Schmachtenberger summarizes the Metacrisis and Polycrisis concepts, both of which refer to the entangled, interdependent, complexity of global systemic problems.
https://youtu.be/v0ow2kBeMog

What is energy contraction?

If new energy technologies are not innovated as oil reserves deplete in the next decades, global civilization can expect a contraction of its energy resources. Society will undergo extensive simplification as infrastructure decays, transportation distances decrease, and supply chains shrink. The consequences could include food insecurity and a potential digital dark age, regressing humanity back to the traditions of history. How does The Venus Project meet this challenge?

https://www.thevenusproject.com/concepts/knowledge/problems-predicaments/