Shelter: connect is the educational outreach initiative behind the Shelter film. Creating a virtual bridge between cultures, Shelter: connect uses the forum of on-campus workshops and video conferencing to help design students in the U.S. connect with communities in the developing world to share ideas for addressing urgent shelter needs. Taking place on-site in U.S. college and university studios, the workshops are led by the Shelter filmmakers, and empower design students with both the storytelling tools and the information-sharing platform they need to join the design-for-good movement and amplify their research and study of humanitarian design.

Directed and edited by Lee Schneider. Cinematography by Richard Neill and Michelle Marrion. Music by David Nyman. Caroline Markowitz is the outreach coordinator of Shelter: connect. Photo credits: Africa Rebel by hdptcar.net, Indonesia earthquake by jenjoaquin, Thailand flooding by Pietro Motta. Creative commons license. Additional photographs by Elizabeth LaFontant and Jonathan Corum.

Shelter: connect is the educational outreach initiative behind the Shelter film. Creating a virtual bridge between cultures, Shelter: connect uses the forum of on-campus workshops and video conferencing to help design students in the U.S. connect with communities in the developing world to share ideas for addressing urgent shelter needs. Taking place on-site in U.S. college and university studios, the workshops are led by the Shelter filmmakers, and empower design students with both the storytelling tools and the information-sharing platform they need to join the design-for-good movement and amplify their research and study of humanitarian design.

Directed and edited by Lee Schneider. Cinematography by Richard Neill and Michelle Marrion. Music by David Nyman. Caroline Markowitz is the outreach coordinator of Shelter: connect.

Shelter: connect is the outreach initiative of the Shelter film. Using on-site workshops, students:

-get real-world design experience

-get inspired to make positive change in the world using design

-become empowered to help transform communities most in need

A celebration of architecture in San Francisco.

Directed by Lee Schneider and Richard Neill. Edited by Nick Farago. Music by David Nyman.

Appearing in the film are David Meckel, Lydia Lee, E.B. Min and Bill Valentine.

Thanks to Kim Salyer at Video Arts, Carlos Cabralas at elastic creative, Jennifer Busch at InterfaceFLOR, Caroline Markowitz, Owen Bissell, Wynn Padula, and Kiersten Lane.

Produced by Adventure Pictures and DocuCinema for the Center for Architecture and Design.

Robin Osler is an architect in New York who designed a vertical farm (on the side of a building) in Los Angeles. She is the principal at EOA/Elmslie Osler Architect.

eoarch.com

Her projects include Grow Studio, a design consultancy specializing in urban architecture. She was interviewed by Tabby Biddle about her Grow Studio work as part of the shelter project.

Camera and edit: Lee Schneider
Interviewer: Tabby Biddle
Photo credits: EOA and Miguel Contreras

The shelter project is a production of DocuCinema and Adventure Pictures.

thesheltermovie.com.