HI, I rarely send things, but I thought this film, The Human Scale at the Cinemathèque, might be interesting to some, especially the panel discussion afterwards on urban planning. Cheers, Cyndi Otfinowski

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From: "Winnipeg Film Group" info@winnipegfilmgroup.com Date: September 17, 2013 11:28:26 AM MDT (CA) To: "Cyndi & Rafael Otfinowski" cotfinowski@gmail.com Subject: Now Playing at Cinematheque

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Architecture+Film is an ongoing series which focus on architecture and design, co-presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation - a charitable organization dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg's built environment through public education. http://www.winnipegarchitecture.ca/

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Thu Sep 19 at 9:00 PM Fri Sep 20 at 7:00 PM

DIR. ANDREAS DALSGAARD | 2012 | DENMARK | 77 MIN (Danish with English subtitles)

Jan Gehl, architect and urban visionary, believes that we know more about creating good habitat for mountain gorillas than we do about designing cities that function well for Homo sapiens. This compelling film explores the work that Jan and his team have been doing around the world. The many smart, sleepless, and frustrated urban planners profiled in the film talk passionately about the ways in which a human scaled city makes for richness, spontaneity, and engagement within communities.

Juxtaposed against the organic small-scale model is the spectre of the coming giga-city. Bleak, sterile, composed of neon towers, flyovers, and endless streams of traffic, this dystopian future is funded by the World Bank and promoted by politicians and speculators whose vision of modernity is a city entirely privatized and largely designed for cars.

Panel discussion following the Sept 20 screening featuring: Christian Cassidy, writer and researcher for the West End Dumplings blog This was Manitoba and Peg Downtown Places Bob Somers, Landscape Architect at Scatliff+Miller+Murray Steve Cohlmeyer, Architect and Urban Designer, Cohlmeyer Associates Brent Bellamy, Senior Design Architect at Number Ten Architectural Group as well as columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press Robyn Robertson, architectural intern at aodbt architecture and a founding member of Saskatchewan's Open: design collaborative

The Human Scale is generously sponsored by Lafarge and the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation. The film is being shown as part of the Winnipeg Design Festival

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