Film: Urbanzied

For this lecture I was introduced to a documentary film called Urbanized, directed by Gary Hustwit. This documentary focused on how design affects the modern day society, focusing specifically on city design, interviewing architects to gather a range of different perspectives on the matter. There is a huge focus on perspectives throughout this documentary and really makes you understand how much design is responsible for contemporary society.

Not only does this documentary look at the design of "urbanized" society, it looks into a much more deeper understanding, hi-lighting many different problems that societies around the world face in both the future and the present. A big concern mentioned in the film was that society is getting increasingly overcrowded, putting a strain on global resources and harming the environment, not to mention the poor condition of human living in places like Mumbai.

I thought that this film was a nice break from constant designing for commercial sales, it focused on looking at more serious issues that happen around the world. It focused on the ideal of problem solving and I really enjoyed this, after all designers are problem solvers.