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Future makers. Episode 4, Breaking boundaries / directors, Nathalie Bibeau, Nimisha Mukerji, Andrew Murray, Christine Nielsen ; produced by White Pine Pictures.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space suits--Technological innovations.
- Space suits.
- Architecture and society--Canada.
- Architecture and society.
- Medical innovations.
- Political participation--Canada.
- Political participation.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (59 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Breaking boundaries
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, ON : White Pine Pictures, 2017.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Future Makers is a series telling the stories of a new generation of passionate change-makers. Their work is shaping and defining our future in inspiring and imaginative ways. Dr. Shawna Pandya, a 32 year old physician and neuroscientist is a citizen scientist- astronaut candidate to voyage into outer space with NASA-supported project PoSSUM. Shawna volunteers for a test flight to evaluate a new spacesuit prototype for the space-tech company Final Frontier. Toronto-based Partisans design and architecture firm was co-founded by Alexander Josephson, 33 with the mantra of re-inventing urban architecture utilizing a future-forward approach. Alexander leads the nerd-cool design team (average age 26) on new design projects and shares experiences of recent design accomplishments. At 17, Maya Burhanpurkar is a brilliant young scientist, inventor, award-winning filmmaker, STEM champion and explorer. At her young age she has already made groundbreaking discoveries in medicine and physics. Maya is part of a university institute team designing and testing a selfdriving robotic wheelchair. We also see Maya working as an advocate to encourage more girls to pursue careers in male-dominated science. Of Arabic descent, 27-year old Caro Loutfi learned the value of democracy from her father who escaped Lebanon as the civil war began. Caro is on a life's mission to make democracy cool and increase voter turnout among apathetic millennials through art and technology. As Executive Director of Apathy is Boring, Caro launches a 5 city outdoor photo projection project to engage millennials with remarkable results.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Sarah Polley.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 07, 2018).
- OCLC:
- 1081438207
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