Life inside the movies
From the sleek cities of Bladerunner and Black Panther to the sinister towns of the Stepford Wives and the Truman Show, screen culture tells us about what we do (and don’t) want from our cities and towns. In this talk, join urban planner Stephen Rowley and explore how on-screen places shape the cities and towns we live in and what cinema and television communities tell us about where our cities and towns are headed.
Bio
Stephen lectures in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies at RMIT and is a practising urban planner, working as an independent consultant and Planning Editor of the Victorian Planning Reports. His 2015 book Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood's Ideal Communities explores the cultural depiction of cities and towns and their influence of real-life urban planning. His second book, The Victorian Planning System: Practice, Problems, and Prospects, was published in 2017.
7:30pm @Worksmith ELLA, ELLA, Melbourne Central Melbourne VIC 3000.
Also speaking at this location at 6:00pm is Jussi Pasanen and at 9:00pm are Samuel Whiting & Paige Klimentou.
This event is hosted in a venue that is wheelchair accessible.
Please reach out to knowledge@melbourne.vic.gov.au to request an Auslan interpreter for this event.
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