Future Ways of Living
Future Ways of Living is a documentary film about a project that challenges leaders, design professionals, and students in several countries to imagine how technology and design in the future would look.[1] The project has a duration of 5 days, and the participants are divided into groups and are expected to create a tangible plan to improve and design a future way of: education, food systems, transportation, Health & Wellness, Energy & economy, or communication systems.[2] The initiative was planned and executed by the Institute Without Boundaries (a program that belongs to George Brown College[3]) and Meet Media Guru[4] at the World Expo in Milan, Italy. The premiere of the film was on June 11, 2017, and took place in Toronto, Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film is currently being shown by Amazon and YouTube. This project had the opportunity to be part of the ICFF[5] (Italian Contemporary Film Festival)[6], since the documentary was filmed in Milan. The Italian community chose the film to be part of their film festival because it shows a collaboration between Canada and Italy.
Specifications of the Film
Film Type: Documentary/movie
Founder of the project: Maria Grazia Mattei[7]
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes 46 seconds
Completion Date: November 30, 2016
Premier: June 17, 2017
Production Budget: 250,000 USD
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada, Italy
Film Language: English, Italian, Spanish
Production Team
Marcello Ferrara
Director, Writer and Editor
Marcello Ferrara[8] is a graduate of McGill University in Literature and Urban Geography. He is a published poet and writer and has worked as a communications specialist for the international design organization IFI, the International Federation of Interior Designers. He is currently the principal of And Others, a community development and production company. His most current project is working with refugees in Greece using participatory video practices to tell their stories as part of the community development process.
Luigi Ferrara
Executive Producer
Luigi Ferrara[9] is an architect, designer, educator, and storyteller. He is the Dean of the Centre for Arts, Design & Information Technology at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada and Director of the internationally acclaimed Institute without Boundaries (IwB). He has served as President and Senator of ICSID and lectures around the world on topics as diverse as design and sustainability, design management, urban planning, information technology, digital media, telecommunications, and the network society.
Voitek Pendrak
Cinematographer
Voitek Pendrak is a self-taught photographer and cinematographer based in Toronto. His extensive experience in photography led him into the world of cinematography three years ago. Since then, he has been part of several film productions ranging from shorts, web series, and documentaries, including an official selection for Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Michael Nguyen
Editor
Michael Nguyen is a cinematographer and editor based in Toronto, Ontario. He attended the School of Design at George Brown College where he studied Art and Design Foundation.
Andrew Wright
Re-recording Mixer
Andrew Wright is a British-Canadian director, writer, editor, musician, sound designer, and engineer. Originally from the United Kingdom, he started out as a record label owner, writer, and producer in the early 90s. Andrew's passion for music and his vivid imagination crossed over into film production when he relocated to Toronto, Canada in 2006.
History
The project started in 2015[10] when Meet the Media Guru decided to collaborate with other digital companies to try to imagine the future. The first meeting for this project was scheduled for February 23, 2015, at the Santa Teresa Mediateca in via della Moscova with Hiroshi Ishii, professor[10] of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Future Ways of Living has been active in the design community. Later, on the 10-year anniversary[11] of Meet the Media Guru[12] media, it was featured as one of the main projects. Years later, they were invited as guest speakers at DigiFest[13] 2018[14] in Toronto to inspire future designers.
References
- ↑ "Meet the Media Guru | Future Ways of Living con Jonathan Woetzel | SardegnaEventi24.it". SardegnaEventi24.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ Enaje, Jo. Porfolio. joenaje Designs. pp. 2–9. Search this book on
- ↑ "Screening of Future Ways of Living in Partnership with George Brown". Italian Heritage Canada. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ↑ "La Triennale di Milano » Meet the Media Guru Future Ways of Living Arjun Appadurai". www.triennale.org. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ "Italian Contemporary Film Festival launches its 2017 program – ICFF". ICFF. 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ "ICFF: ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY FILM FESTIVAL 2017". iictoronto.esteri.it. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ "Future ways of living". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ↑ "Marcello Ferrara". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ↑ "Luigi Ferrara, OAA, MRAIC, Hon. ACID O, ICSID Senator". www.georgebrown.ca. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Future Ways of Living: Fastweb partner di Meet the Media Guru". www.spotandweb.it (in italiano). 2015-02-20. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ "Future ways of living". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2018-06-01.
- ↑ "Notizie e eventi - 10 anni MEET THE MEDIA GURU". www.braidense.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ "Design - Toronto Digifest 2018". Toronto Digifest 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ↑ Minogue, Sean (2018-03-22). "Digifest 2018 asks if Toronto is ready for the future". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
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