2014 Programme

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THE HUMAN SCALE

The Hunting of The Snark

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50% of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80% Life in a mega city is both enchanting and problematic.

“A human being who doesn’t one day blow a fuse is mad”. These are the words of Sullivan Damien David, whose triple forename bears the mark of a painful family past.

Today we face peak oil, climate change, loneliness and severe health

Filmed over a period of one year of life inside SNARK, a boarding school for troubled youths, La Louvière is a self-managing project for non-repressive education. It is an inside view on the youths’

professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through 40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and argues that we can build cities in a way which takes human needs for inclusion and intimacy into account. The Human Scale meets thinkers, architects and urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity, exploring what happens when we put people into the centre of our planning. Director: Andreas Dalsgaard. 77 mins. Denmark.2013.

counseling is fraught with tensions, which can explode anytime. As seasons pass, academic failure, violence and provocations reveal themselves for what they are: symptoms of scarred childhoods and

challenge of containing the boarders’ violence with a non-repressive approach. ‘Here, if there are no insults’, a young Angèle points out, ‘there’s no dialogue’. Director: François-Xavier Drouet. France, 2013, 98 mins.

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