XMotility Team Bio's

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 Since the early 1960’s, Joseph D. Clinton has been a practicing Design Scientist. During his early teaching and research career he developed a long-term association with Buckminster Fuller. His NASA research contributions include early computer programs, geodesic geometry and jitterbug transformations. He has been listed in the Dictionary of International Biography, Men of Achievement, and others. He has written professional articles for international journals and contributed to a number of books. His work has been exhibited in distinguished museums and galleries including the design of the first major exhibition on alternative energy resources, the Soft Energy Expo for the Newark Museum, NJ. He is a founding member of the Synergetics Collaborative and has served on several other professional boards.  

 Bonnie DeVarco is an independent researcher, writer and curator. As an education technology consultant to non-profit, corporate and educational organizations for over 25 years, she developed multi-institutional programs for distance and media enhanced learning while pioneering virtual worlds and visualization technologies in education. She has worked within the Fuller Collection at Stanford University since 2000 and was information manager and archivist for the Buckminster Fuller Archives at BFI from 1989-1995. She is a program advisor to BFI, and was a founding member of the advisory committee for BFI’s Buckminster Fuller Challenge from 2005 to 2017. 

 Melodi Simay Acar, M.Sc. is a bio-inspired kinetic architect, sustainability and permaculture designer, inventor and Design Scientist. Passionate about nature-inspired structures and technologies, she focuses on nature’s ingenuity and connection with humanity. Melodi facilitates design courses based on bio-inspiration for adults and children besides R&D and Product Development. 

 Gary Doskas is Model maker and amateur geometer and author of Spherical Harmony: A Journey of Geometric Discovery. Gary graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec Canada in 1984. Has been working in the semiconductor industry for 27 years.