Goldsmith Talks: 'MICROTOPIA' Film Screening

“MICROTOPIA is a documentary about micro dwellings, downsizing, and living off the grid.”

Goldsmith Talks hosts a film screening of the 2013 film, MICROTOPIA, for its first event of the season. Directed by Jesper Wachtmeister, this film captures the work of eight different architects, builders, designers, and artists, who are reconsidering the concept of home. The projects featured in this film range in absurdity, but all offer alternative and innovative solutions for the future of housing. With a focus on reducing energy consumption, questioning need for space and stuff, and promoting flexibility and portability, the projects in this film spark intrigue and curiosity about the trajectory of housing design.

Directed by Jesper Wachtmeister

2013 / 52 min

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Goldsmith Talks is an open-format series of presentations organized by UTSOA faculty, staff, and students. the series aims to encourage and promote presentations that are outside of the scope of the main lecture series. Examples are: invited seminar presentations, book talks, lectures by designers and scholars who may be in Austin for another engagement, round-table discussions, film screenings, product demonstrations, or any other activity related to research, scholarship, and teaching activities and at the school. The format provides a platform for encouraging the dissemination of work by visitors and members of our community. The goal is to raise awareness, increase access, and better integrate such events within the public life of the school.