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Adaptive Greening

Documentary, Canada 2007, 15'00

Produced and Directed by: Ari Shomair and Julian Van Mil
Executive Producer: Zahra Ebrahim
Music and Sound Design: Yota Kobayashi
Narrator: Elizabeth Rappeport
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Robert E. Garfinkle
Narration Recorded by: David Fleury Music
Camera: Barry Cheong
On Set Sound: Phil Durbrovsky
Stock footage provided by Archive.org

If we continue to build higher into the sky, we must look at our cities as we do forests, and make sure that the tallest trees are contributing the most back to our environment, serving as symbols of our generation’s advancement rather than our regression. Adaptive Greening profiles the young team at a r c h i T E X T providing a global window into the consequences of irresponsible architecture and the advantages of smart design.

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