Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision

Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 16, 2015

Runtime

1h 4m

Original Title

Inventing Cornell Tech: The Vision

Production Companies

Checkerboard Film Foundation

Director

Tom Piper

Description

Ground has been broken on Roosevelt Island for New York City's newest academic campus - the sustainable, high tech home of Cornell Tech, a radical reconception of graduate level engineering study for the information age. Over the next three years, a stunning complex of architecture and landscape will emerge - a unique hub of high tech research and entrepreneurial activity. Before every great piece of architecture, there is a unique journey, and since 2013, Checkerboard has been documenting the journey of Cornell Tech as it rises on Roosevelt Island. This film tells the story of how political visionaries, educational innovators, architectural designers and philanthropic benefactors have come together to create something that will have an incredible impact on New York City for decades to come.