With the help of Room and Board and also A+D: Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles, we presented the latest media from the Shelter project on November 15th, 2012. The media includes a recent interview of Eric Cesal of Architecture for Humanity. He talks about his journey to AfH and into public interest design. There's also an interview with Dan Pitera of University of Detroit, Mercy. He talks about The Alley Project, a collaborative neighborhood revitalization. Tom Fisher, professor of architecture at University of Minnesota and Dean of the College of Design, talks about public interest architecture.

Directed and Edited by Lee Schneider. Shelter Media Project creative directors: Lee Schneider and Richard Neill. Music by Joel Goodman, Pitx, Grapes. Goodman music by permission, others via Creative Commons License. Photo credit: Erik Howard.

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Thursday, November 15

Join A+D Museum for a special inCOLLABORATION screening and panel event at the Room & Board showroom in Culver City, CA. The evening, sponsored by Room & Board, will premiere new media from Shelter, a documentary media project chronicling architects, designers, urban planners and engineers who are using their design skills to create social change.

Following the screening of Shelter, panelists, led by moderator Frances Anderton, will discuss developments in public interest design, its relevance to the design and architecture professions, and whether the practice and growing interest in public interest design will result in lasting change in the way architecture is practiced. The evening will benefit A+D Museum, and there will be a raffle for a $500 Room and Board gift certificate.

Tickets and info: aplusd.org/incollaboration

[Photography credit: Erik Howard, youngnation.us]

Thanks to Khalid Mohtaseb for the Haiti footage and Joel Goodman for the music. Edited by: Tal Skoot Camera: Richard Neill. Sound: Kevin Brown and Vlad Gurwich. Associate Producer: Megan Nemeh. Writer/Director: Lee Schneider.

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.