Join us for the screening of two films on the theme of urban planning and design from the Educational Television archive. The first is an 11-minute short film and the second is a 60-min documentary. There will be a short guided discussion before and after each film.

We will also be joined by members from the UC Berkeley Innovative Design student group. In October 2024, Problem Library worked with this team to rebrand Educational Television. The team will walk us through the thinking and process behind their stylistically vibrant approach.

Inspired by the spirit of publicly accessible educational programming from the 80s and 90s, Educational Television is a Problem Library project that archives short films, documentaries, and television programs we find valuable. Our aim is to reanimate television as a medium to educate, provoke, and inspire and to celebrate curiosity in the mechanisms, mystery, and magic of the world.

Educational Television currently exists as a website which streams two channels 24/7 and invites a “slow” viewing approach by removing the ability for viewers to skip or pause. At our in-person screenings we will use a broad theme to pull from the ever-growing archive, but we will not reveal the titles until the time of screening.

For a little more context on what we’ll be watching for this screening, explore the following figures:

• William H. Whyte
• Jane Jacobs

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