URBANIZED: The Finale of Gary Hustwit’s Design Documentary Trilogy, Screening @ Drexel University November 3rd [Ticket Giveaway!]
Documentary film maker Gary Hustwit first impressed all of us with HELVETICA, the story of typeface and how it affects all of us in myriad ways. He then went on to further make an impact on filmgoers with OBJECTIFIED, a look at how designers go about creating the everyday things we use and buy. Now the trilogy is complete as Hustwit prepares to release his third film, URBANIZED.
URBANIZED is the story of how a city becomes a city. It looks at who exactly gets to plan the shape of the metropolises we live in and how those decisions affect us. By looking at a wide range of urban projects both large and small, Hustwit tries to show us what the future may hold for the cities and urban areas many of us call home.
Featuring interviews with a veritable who’s who of architects and planners, including Amanda Burden, Enrique Peñalosa, Alejandro Aravena, Eduardo Paes and Rahul Mehrotra, URBANIZED is a film that might just change how you look at Philadelphia and its surrounding environs.
As a special treat, director Gary Hustwit, in association with AIGA Philadelphia and AIA Philadelphia, will be having a special screening of the film at Drexel University on November 3rd in the Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Center. And Geekadelphia has a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader!
How to enter? Just leave a comment. We’ll select one of you at random at the end of the day, and you’ll score a pair of tickets to the 9pm screening. Good luck!
Having seen Helvetica more times than I can count (and Objectified as well), I’m super excited to see this.
This sounds fantastic! And seriously relevant to anyone who has ever lived in/near/in the same state as a city (tax money!).
LOVED Helvetica, the Movie. Would love to see this film, too!!
Sounds pretty interesting. I can’t imagine the kind of planning that goes into this, which is all the more reason I want to see it.