A class taught by Hsiao-Yun Chu is a virtual world tour of design, from history to product design and development. The Design and Industry assistant professor considers herself a guide-not an expert-leading a fun experience.

Chu's newest tour involves nearly 1,400 linear feet, the size of R. Buckminster Fuller's personal archive. This semester, students are engaging in a typesetting project of Fuller materials, on the heels of Chu's first book, New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (Stanford University Press).

As the Fuller archive's assistant curator while attending Stanford, Chu grew interested in Fuller's self-taught, innovative design and utopian, visionary viewpoints. Fuller's geo-dome, she notes, came decades before today's green movement.