Urbanists learn how a city works through intimate contact with it.
Experience, observation, common sense, and human value are fundamental to an urbanist's view.
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Roberta Brandes Grantz, Living Cities
Unconventional …
Mad-Cap – High Energy – Raw Vison
The Atelier:
The studio model used by Urban Paradoxes is a hands-on and "body-in" exploration of urban neighborhoods and the issues affecting them. However, we realize that exploration is of little value if nothing comes of it. Our atelier is urban space, not design studios or academic ivory towers. What we learn in each neighborhood has practical application to every urban neighborhood.
Art & Technology:
High-adrenaline, kinetic experiences- Art and technology fused with the urban experience, while entertainment can be so much more. Properly fused with the urban experience, art and technology will provide a unique tool with which both frames and define the urban experience in a way that challenges our traditional understanding, perceptions, and definitions of "urban."
Founder's Passion Statement:
My passion to document the urban experience in a way that both challenges our perceptions and leads to urban revitalization and healing flows from years of involvement in the urban experience as resident, flâneur planner, educator, documenter, urban psychologist, and psycho-geographer. It is my goal not to follow the crowd or even
"a different drummer," but to follow my own drumming.
-Frank A. Mills
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The Documentary:
Unconventional, controversial, probing, challenging, exciting, emotional- A documentary is not a mere stringing together of historical facts. A documentary is more than merely documenting. For a documentary to be vital it must interpret events and makes them come alive for the viewer. A vital documentary makes the story become the viewer's story, complete with all the story's inherent pain and passion.
A documentary maker has an increasing responsibility as more and more people look to films for information that they use to get from the written word - David Van Taylor, documentary producer.
The story needs to be public, not hidden in musty inaccessible archives. A good documentary tells s the story concisely and poignantly without hype and romanticizing. While sensitive and accurate, the good documentary does not shy away from examining the issues raised. A good documentary that is vital is not a travelogue, a "Rah! Rah! piece," or an infomercial. A good documentary examines antecedents and decedents. A documentary that exudes vitality makes the viewer feel the emotions, share the experience, and become one with the experience
How do we this? By "building" the documentary around a framework of mythic elements: sufferings, victimizings, heroic deeds, etc. - in such a way that the story of a particular people becomes the story of all peoples: stories in which all humanity becomes brother and sister, stories in which all of Creation becomes our cousin— stories which dispel ignorance.
Flâneur:
The street-level musings of a modern day flâneur, with photo essays, and reviews.
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Wandersmânner:
Urban paradoxes are best found on the street: Exploring the urban experience with new eyes - When we walk about an urban neighborhood, either as residents or visitors, we must rise above the "tourist mentality" of seeing things. We have refined the idea of the flâneur into the concept of "wandersmânner "urban drifts," or "WalkShops," that intersect/puncture everyday urban experience within the neighborhood in order to explore values common to the neighborhood and to create a shared vision for the future.
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