Design for Good:
Shelter (2011) and Citizen Architect (2010) (1 LU)
September 7, 5:30 pm
Free; Registration required.
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco
 

Shelter © seanandyvette.com

The evening will begin with an informal conversation between the filmmakers Lee Schneider and Richard Neil of Shelter and John Peterson, Founder and Executive Director of Public Architecture.

Shelter
This work-in-progress edit of Shelter focuses on reconstruction in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It’s an inspiring look at how a world community of architects and designers join relief workers to create design solutions in the context of community building. They are creating structures as much as they are helping to make communities whole again.

Director: Lee Schneider
Producer and Cinematographer: Richard Neill
Composer: Joel Goodman
Editors: Tal Skloot and Lee Schneider

Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
Home to some of the most impoverished communities in the US, Hale County, Alabama also hosts Auburn University’s Rural Studio, one of the most prolific and inspirational design-build outreach programs ever established. Revealing the philosophy and heart behind the program, the documentary is guided by never-before-seen interviews with the late architect Samuel Mockbee. Citizen Architect supplements Mockbee’s words and the students’ experiences with perspective from other architects and designers. Their dialogue infuses the film with a larger discussion of architecture’s role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, social change and citizenship.

Director and Producer: Sam Wainwright Douglas
Executive Producer: Jeff Fraley
Producers: Jack “Jay” Sanders and Sarah Ann Mockbee
Cinematography: Dutch Rall