Film Screening at WSU

 SITTING STILL: a 90-minute documentary film Directed, Produced & Written by Gina M. Angelone Featuring Laurie Olin

 WSU Landscape Architecture will be hosting a film screening on Tuesday, October 28th, 5:00 pm in Goertzen Hall 21.

 This event is FREE and open to the public!  No RSVP required.

 SITTING STILL is an original documentary that focuses on one of the world’s most preeminent landscape architects and his profoundly social vision. Hailed as a modern-day Olmsted, Laurie Olin has helped transform the design of public space, revitalize the American city, and pave the way for future design leaders. This portrait of an artist is told through a prism of issues which have defined Olin’s life and work for the past fifty years: urbanization and our lost connection to nature, economic marginalization, and the grave importance of humanity in design.

SITTING STILL gets inside the mind of a prophetic and visionary urban designer to see what he sees. In a time when global values increasingly reflect “profit over people,” Olin's vision has always been to create a more democratic and egalitarian society through healthy, shared public space. SITTING STILL invites the voices of other design luminaries into the conversation, including preeminent architects Frank Gehry and Billie Tsien, and esteemed landscape designer and artist, Walter Hood, among others. According to these global thinkers and designers, environmental and human stakes have never been higher, and the most pressing challenges of the natural environment and social disunity can be addressed in how we think about the marks we make upon the land.

 Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/pdAn70Kznjc?si=anlMbJVJ04FNyOHc