Sitting Still with Laurie Olin

At a time in our culture where the notion of “profit over people'' is a pervasive one, Laurie Olin is battling to see beyond faulty economic models and misguided politics. He is fighting to bring sustainability to vast ecological systems and create more livable cities. When environments are suffering, so are the people. How we see and think about place is the first step toward improving the world we live in.

The stakes are high. With more and more evidence of climate change, we find ourselves at a critical juncture in human history. SITTING STILL creates an original way to see and understand our place in the continuum.

Olin’s life story of growing up in Alaska on the edge of the American frontier, living abroad and challenging belief systems around designing in nature, and his lifelong work transforming environments for social good become the launching pad for exploring critical themes around the sociology of public spaces and how they directly impact our human experience.