CHRIS ZELOV
Filmmaker /
Ecologist
Comprehensive Designer
Scientist
Creator of the Major
Film
Founder:
The Knossus
Project
www.geniusloci.com
http://www.city21.info
knossus@ptd.net
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The program can be viewed in its entirety by
clicking the you tube link below:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA41LaEddlk
- CHRIS ZELOV
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More about: CHRIS ZELOV
Chris
Zelov - Aug 1994 Air date Buckminster Fuller
was a design
outlaw.
He shattered preconceived notions of how
buildings and
machines
should be put together. The result was the
geodesic dome,
the 60
mile-per-gallon Dymaxion Car, the
self-sufficient Dymaxion
House and
host of other inventions that influenced a
new wave of
designers.
In making their award-winning film,
Ecological Design,
Chris
Zelov and Phil Cousineau interviewed 26
present-day design
outlaws.
To expand on the film, they published this
book. Both the
film and
the book are brimming with the ideas and
prototypes of the
trailblazers who have defined ecological
design over the past thirty
years.
Here's a partial list of the outlaws:
Brendan O'Reagan, Ian McHarg, Douglas Adams,
John Todd, Jay
Baldwin,
Stewart Brand, Mary Catherine Bateson, Paul
McCready,
William
McDonough, Amory and Hunter Lovins, Hazel
Henderson,
Pliny
Fisk, Paolo Soleri, Christopher Alexander,
John Connell and
many
more. These forward-thinking designers have
defied
convention
with new ideas on shelter, energy,
transportation and
industry.
In addition to being thought-provoking,
these colorful
characters
are very entertaining.
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Christopher Zelov
is the founder of
The Knossus Project,
a research and development firm dedicated to
developing projects
in the strategic realms of:
Educational Film,
Fine Art Books,
along with
Green Product Design.
Selected Projects include:
-City21 (film released in early 2009)
-Ecological Design: Inventing the Future
(Film *Winner of 7 film
festival awards)
-Design Outlaws (Book *in 5th printing)
-Bioremediation Barge (AIA Award)
-Some Songs to the Stars (film, book and CD)
-Speculations on Eco-Resorts in the 21st
Century (Epilogue in
Cape May Book)
-Genius Loci Art Gallery (ongoing)
-3 Ideas to Tweak the World (green design
music video)
-SolOrcale (Invention)
-Green Bus Stop (Invention)
-Solar Trackers in the Sky (Invention)
-Cafe Kairos (Multi-Media Cafe)
-Pitchfork Town (Music video)
Education:
B.S. Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania 1983
San Francisco Institute of
Architecture(ongoing affiliation)
Yestermorrow Design/Build School Esalen
Institute
Certified Teacher: Technologies for Creating
Member:
National Arts Club, World Future Society,
AIFV,
Smithsonian, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
American Solar
Energy Society, Mayflower Society
