If You Build It documents a year in the classroom of Project H, an experimental design-build workshop for high school students in Windsor, North Carolina. Guided by designer Emily Pilloton and architect Matt Miller, the creators of Project H, ten high schoolers set out to design and build a farmers’ market hall for their town, in the hopes that it will help invigorate the local economy and inspire other community-minded projects.
Director Patrick Creadon (of Wordplay and I.O.U.S.A.) tracks the workshop’s bumpy progress through naysaying school boards and financial straits to its eventual triumph as a point of local and student pride. Creadon spoke with Paul Petrunia and I about the documentary’s far-reaching themes of education and design-thinking in a post-recession United States.
Former Managing Editor and Podcast Co-Producer for Archinect. I write, go to the movies, walk around and listen to the radio. My interests revolve around cognitive urban theory, psycholinguistics and food.Currently freelancing. Be in touch through longhyphen@gmail.com
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