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Urban Planning Film Series: Right to Fail (Oct 15, 2020 @ 7PM)

Please join us for this film screening and discussion as part of the ongoing MIT Urban Planning Film Series.

Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. In “Right to Fail,” FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what’s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartments and find more than two dozen cases in which the system failed, sometimes with deadly consequences.

The screening will be followed by a special Q&A audience discussion with ProPublica reporter Joaquin Sapien.

Registration required: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkfuGqqzMjGdaJE48IheqJI_CEvs3u3sH5 (after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting).

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Urban Planning Film Series: Portraits and Dreams (Oct 8, 2020 @ 7PM)

Please join the MIT Urban Planning Film Series for this special screening and moderated discussion as part of a special community viewing partnership with PBS/POV documentary films.]

Portraits and Dreams revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time.

A POV co-production with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Registration required: https://mit.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkf–pqjgiHtOVXfHKWPlQ2dghRfzzZI13 (after registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting).

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Figure 1: Portraits and Dreams/POV

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