The Venus Project is the nonprofit organization founded by a Florida-based, architect and social engineer Jacque Fresco. Fresco with his partner Roxanne Meadows founded this organization with a socioeconomic benefit example to determine a resource-based economy for human beings utilizing technology.
Fresco worked on the “Project Americana” before The Venus Project, from 1955 to 1959. The project was mainly approximately environmental, traffic, as well as floodgates concerns.
In 1970, Fresco formed an organization, Sociocybereneering Inc, based on the concepts of technology and energy conservation strategies. Later, Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows purchased 21 acres of farmland in Venus, an unincorporated community in southeastern Highlands County, Florida for conducting different types of research about their futuristic schedule of architectural appearance and city models. Fresco & Meadows then created buildings and other infrastructure to earn on their conception of energy-efficient cities. According to The New York Times, initially, they supported the project by selling books and lecture videos. In 1980, Fresco, established a research center to experiment on resource-based economy and later named it, “The Venus Project”, by a town name, Venus. In 2010, Fresco and Meadows traveled to 20 countries to made “The Venus Project”. In June 2012, a Swedish documentary and fiction director, Maja Borg screened her film, Future My Love, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival featuring the do of Fresco and Roxanne Meadows.