National Building Museum
 

Film Program: If You Build It

Date:
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Time:
2:30 PM - 4:15 PM

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Tickets are available for purchase at the door for this film.

From the director of Wordplay and I.O.U.S.A. comes a captivating look at a radically innovative approach to education. If You Build It follows designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to transform both their community and their lives. Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change-resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year-long design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it shows thirteen teenagers the power of design-thinking to re-invent not just their town, but their own sense of what's possible. 
Director: Patrick Creadon
2012 / 77 min / USA  

This feature film will be screened in the Museum's Great Hall. Please note that the Great Hall theater will utilize wireless headsets. To check out your device, you will be required to  leave a credit card or valid driver's license on file with a National Building Museum staff member. 

This feature film is followed by a Q & A


1.5 LU (AIA)

The Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented by the Revada Foundation, courtesy of the estates of Reva and David Logan.

$12 Museum | Free for All Students | $15 Non-member | $125 All Access 

Click here to buy the all-access pass which includes the opening night, reception, and auto-registration to all 27 films.

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Image Credit: Still from If You Build It by Mike Dorsey, 2012.  

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