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Filming Future Cities is a transnational collective research project that employs film as a critical anthropological tool to explore urban futures. Launched in 2014 in Detroit by University of Michigan professor and anthropologist Damani Partridge, the project builds upon anthropologist Arjun Appadurai's idea of research as a human right. The project has included youths, Syrian refugees, noncitizen Berliners, and African immigrants and equipped them with the filmmaking and ethnographic research skills to formulate research questions and create ten-minute documentary films about their cities and communities. "Filming Future Cities" has continued in Berlin and Detroit for over ten years and has spanned other cities like Philadelphia, Princeton, and New York. By using the project's films as comparative case studies, this initiative explores the potential of film as a method for influencing future urban possibilities. The project has evolved to include museum exhibitions as a means to further engage participants and publics.
The "Filming Future Cities" project has received funding from Princeton University's Humanities Council, the Mellon Foundation's "Humanities Without Walls" grant, and the Mellon Foundation's "Higher Learning, Affirming Multivocal Humanities" grant.