IMP-13 — Organization Entity Pages (~11 institutions) — Design
Status: Approved 2026-07-01
Source item: IMP-13 (work/IMPROVEMENTS.md) — the organizational half of the entity effort (people done in IMP-8/9 + IMP-12).
Branch: pluck/imp-13-organization-entity-pages
Goal
Introduce a new entity-organization type: pages for the institutions that
recur across the corpus, mirroring the person-entity model, so organizations
become navigable nodes alongside the 61-person layer.
Context
- Reuses the person-entity page shape (
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-01-person-entity-pages-design.md):
category: topic+ a distinguishing tag, a description, a "Role" section,
bidirectional## See Also,## Sources. - No seed collection exists for organizations (unlike the Zotero People
collection or the book-topic authors). The org set is mined from corpus
mentions (raw pointers, book/topic articles, person pages). - Corpus mention counts confirm a bounded, well-attested set (~11); pure
publishers and one-mention institutions defer.
Architecture
Organization pages are category: topic articles tagged entity-organization,
registered in a new wiki/references/fuller-organizations.md (a reference
article parallel to fuller-people.md, cross-linked to it). Bidirectional links
tie each org to the works and people it is associated with.
Components
1. The organization set (this batch)
| Organization | page slug | corpus tie |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Illinois University | southern-illinois-university | Fuller's academic base (1959–70s); SIU Press published many Fuller works |
| Buckminster Fuller Institute | buckminster-fuller-institute | Fuller's legacy organization; the Fuller Challenge |
| Black Mountain College | black-mountain-college | Fuller taught there; tensegrity's birthplace (Snelson, Asawa; Díaz's Experimenters) |
| Whole Earth / Portola Institute | whole-earth-portola-institute | Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog; dome-and-tools counterculture |
| Fuller & Sadao | fuller-and-sadao | Fuller's architecture firm with Shoji Sadao; the Montreal Biosphere |
| Drop City | drop-city | 1960s dome commune (Clark Richert, Steve Baer) |
| Zomeworks | zomeworks | Steve Baer's passive-solar company; origin of the zome |
| World Game Institute | world-game-institute | Medard Gabel; the World Game program |
| Cosanti Foundation / Arcosanti | cosanti-foundation | Paolo Soleri's arcology institute |
| Pacific Domes | pacific-domes | Domebook publisher; the dome-manual lineage the Dome Cookbook answers |
| Marta Herford | marta-herford | German museum behind the We Are All Astronauts exhibition/catalog |
Target: ~10–12 pages (validate each against its corpus mentions at write
time; drop or merge any that prove too thin, e.g. Marta Herford or Pacific Domes,
and note it).
2. Page model
Frontmatter: title, category: topic, created/updated/verified: 2026-07-01,
confidence, volatility: cold, aliases, summary, and tags =
entity-organization + an org-type tag (university, museum, commune,
design-firm, nonprofit, company, …) + about-buckminster-fuller or
fuller-adjacent.
Body: # <Org> + one-line identity blockquote; a short description of the
organization; ## Role in Fuller's world (what it did and its Fuller
connection, grounded in the corpus); ## See Also (bidirectional to associated
works + people); ## Sources.
Sources handling: prefer a resolvable sources: → the raw pointer of a
corpus work strongly tied to the org (e.g. Marta Herford → we-are-all-astronauts;
World Game Institute → 50-years-of-the-design-science-revolution; Fuller &
Sadao → montreal-biosphere; Drop City → an appropriate raw article). Where no
single work anchors the org (e.g. SIU, Black Mountain College), use
compiled-from: conversation (satisfies the missing-sources lint rule).
3. Bidirectional links
Each org page links to its associated works and people; every org→X link gets
its X→org reciprocal. Known pairs to wire:
- Fuller & Sadao ↔ shoji-sadao, ↔ montreal-biosphere
- Zomeworks ↔ steve-baer
- World Game Institute ↔ medard-gabel
- Drop City ↔ clark-richert, ↔ steve-baer
- Black Mountain College ↔ kenneth-snelson, ↔ ruth-asawa, ↔ the-experimenters
- Whole Earth / Portola ↔ stewart-brand, ↔ james-t-baldwin
- Cosanti Foundation ↔ paolo-soleri
- Southern Illinois University ↔ SIU-published Fuller works (e.g.
no-more-secondhand-god,50-years-of-the-design-science-revolution) - Pacific Domes ↔ dome-cookbook-of-geodesic-geometry
- Buckminster Fuller Institute ↔ an apt Fuller topic
- Marta Herford ↔ we-are-all-astronauts
4. Registry + indexes
- New
wiki/references/fuller-organizations.md(category: reference,
entity-organizationtag) listing the org pages alphabetically, with a
## See Alsocross-link tofuller-people.md; add the reciprocal cross-link
infuller-people.md. - Update
wiki/topics/_index.md(add the org rows), master.wiki/_index.md
article count (+~11 → ~192) and Recent Changes, andlog.md.
5. Verify
/wiki:lint --local-equivalent: 0 broken links, See Also bidirectional
(org↔work, org↔person), sources resolve or compiled-from: conversation, no
orphans, indexes/counts consistent, entity-organization tag consistent.
Deferred (later batch, re-filed in housekeeping)
Publishers-only organizations (Garland, MIT Press, Princeton Architectural),
one-mention institutions, and any org needing fresh research beyond this ~11.
Testing / verification
Content task, no unit tests. Success = ~10–12 entity-organization pages
(description + role + bidirectional links), new fuller-organizations.md
registry cross-linked to fuller-people.md, indexes consistent, lint-clean.