This gallery shows a series of cartoon strips I created that were published daily from May 31 to June 11, 1976, in 'Jericho', the official newspaper of 'Habitat Forum', a Non-Governmental-Organizational conference complementing 'HABITAT ‘76', the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements held at that time in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

About these conferences, the HABITAT Conferences digital archive, at https://habitat.scarp.ubc.ca/, records that:

"In 1976, Habitat I (also known as “Habitat ‘76” and “Habitat”) was a global event created to address the urgency of worldwide human settlements issues through enabling a worldwide exchange of information and the formation of an agreed global course of action. It was the largest UN conference undertaken up to that point, and the first to use large scale video-based communication methods. The material produced by participating nations formed “a world-wide snapshot of human settlements at a single moment in time,” as described by Conference Secretary-General Enrique Peñalosa. The official UN-hosted conference attended by government delegates was complemented by an Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Forum (also known as the “Habitat Forum”) which emphasized innovation and networking between NGOs and grassroots initiatives."

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I also created for Habitat Forum a pamphlet featuring Buckminister Fuller’s Dymaxion global map projection which, as patented in 1946, shows the shapes and sizes of earth’s land masses and oceans without gross distortions common to more familiar projections. As Rebecca Maxwell aptly puts this, at https://www.geographyrealm.com/dymaxion-map-projection/:

[Change font as below] “For example, in the Mercator projection, the poles are problematic with Greenland appearing to be three times its relative size and Antarctica appearing as a long, thin, white strip across the bottom. In the Robinson projection, Greenland still appears to be larger than its actual size. Distortions continue to be a problem for every two-dimensional map.”

“The Dymaxion map from Buckminster Fuller stands out because it is the only flat map of the Earth’s surface in its entirety that does not contain any obvious visual distortions of the shapes and sizes of land masses relative to their global scales.”

“Maps are also problematic in that they can reflect a cultural or political bias. Traditional maps have been criticized for reinforcing elements that separate humanity and supporting us versus them thinking, self-interests, and isolation. These traditional maps often fail to represent the patterns of the increasing globalization and growing relationships across continents. Fuller himself was critical of the way maps exhibited the northern hemisphere as superior and the southern hemisphere as inferior. He argued that his Dymaxion map had no right way up since there is no up or down in the universe.”