FILM

Sitting Still

Growing up in Alaska, legendary landscape architect Laurie Olin learned early the importance of shared spaces, especially in impoverished communities. It was there that he began to see
and understand the world through drawing. “Out of ordinary things come moments of perception. It’s the fact that you get more, and you savour more and learn more if you move a little slower. And drawing really slows you down,” he explains in this documentary about his human-centred design approach, directed by Gina Angelone and presented in January at ADFF’s Humanity in Architecture event. The democratization of space has become a throughline in Olin’s epic body of work, turning parks from “a repository for the people...