Sitting Still is a film that offers a rare opportunity to get inside the mind of Laurie Olin, a brilliant and irreverent landscape architect and urban designer, and to see what he sees. In a time when global values increasingly reflect “profit over people,” Olin’s motivation has always been to create a more democratic and egalitarian society through healthy, shared public space. Part portrait of a creative, the film is also an exploration of the social concerns that have defined Olin’s life’s work: urbanisation and our lost connection to nature, economic marginalisation, and the grave importance of humanity in design.
The film also invites the voices of other design luminaries into the conversation, including architectural visionaries Frank Gehry and Billie Tsien, and esteemed landscape designer and artist, Walter Hood, among others.
This film is part of the Melbourne Design Week Film Festival curated by Spiro Economopoulos.