Design As a Social Act: Tales of Architectural Activism
Produced and Directed by Ayda Melika and Susanne Cowan
Produced and Directed by Ayda Melika and Susanne Cowan
This trilogy of films shows how the social upheavals of the 1960s led to the development of social approaches for designing the built environment. This documentary draws on ten oral history interviews with designers and researchers of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning. (75 min)
Part 1: Social Factors (35 min)
Part 2: Community Design (19 min)
Part 3: Participatory Design (21 min)
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This project received funding for research travel and supplies
from the Joan E. Draper Architectural Research Endowment,
College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.
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- Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
- Ball State University, Muncie, IN
- Cornell University, Ithica, NY
- Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
- Duke University, Durham, NC
- El Centro College, Dallas, TX
- Georgia Tech College, Atlanta, GA
- Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
- Kansas State University, KS
- Marymount University, Arlington, VA
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- Portland State University, Portland, OR
- Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Christopher Arabadjis Visual & Multimedia Resources)
- ProQuest, Coutts Information Services, Fort Wayne, IN
- Smith College, Northampton, MA (Neilson Library)
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- University of California, Berkeley, CA (Environmental Design Library)
- University of California, Berkeley, CA (Moffit Library Media Resources Center)
- University of California, San Diego, CA
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
- University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (Richter Library)
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (Wilson Library)
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD (McKeldin Library)
- Washington University, St. Louis, MO
International:
- Newcastle University, Great Britain (School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape)
- Irish Architecture Foundation, Dublin, Ireland
- Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Haifa, Israel (Elyachar Central Library)
- Robert Gordon University Library, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
- Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- University of Northampton, Great Britain