Preceded by short: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now (Marina McDougall, U.S., 1993). This film essay examines how we conceive of home as a site within the mobility promoted by the automobile and electronic technology. (12 mins, Color, 16mm, From the artist) ------------------Sustainable eco-systems are at the center of a twentieth-century design movement that thrives on a dynamic balance between nature, culture and technology. This thoughtful balance is also at the center of Brian Danitz's Ecological Design: Inventing the Future, an engrossing look at the development of sustainable architecture, cities, energy systems and transportation. By tracing the "outlaw" concepts of a number of important designers, most notably Buckminster Fuller, Dr. John Todd, Paolo Soleri and Paul MacCready, Ecological Design is able to evoke a broad vision of human and technological progress that works within the limits of renewable resources. Much of temporary thinking promotes what Todd calls "design without reference to nature." Using prototypes such as the Rocky Mountain Institute, the Biosphere, Arcosanti, the town of Curitiba, Brazil and Michael Corbett's Davis, CA development, Danitz's film illuminates workable models for human habitats that maintain a more passive relationship with the greater environment-a portrait of possibilities for a more desirable future.-Steve Seid An informal gathering of Bay Area ecological designers will follow the screening.