Engineering films at UCL, 21st - 24th June

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One strand of UCL's Open City Documentary festival http://www.opencitydocsfest.com this year is devoted to engineering: that's software engineering, product design, international development, infrastructure, and robots, among others.

Thought people might be interested in going: as well as screenings there's panel discussions, one of which I am for some reason chairing.

We're finishing with a big debate about why engineers and makers have fallen from grace: in the fifties we were supposed to be the saviours of society, now we're dudes who fix fridges. Featuring Mark Miodownik and Quentin Cooper http://www.opencitydocsfest.com/index.php?id=140

Films showing:

UK Premiere of Indie Game, the Movie (about indie dev, astonishingly: feat. Super Meat Boy & Braid devs)

Panel discussion after

Sat 23 June / 18:30 Darwin Theatre

http://www.opencitydocsfest.com/index.php?id=140

Revenge of The Electric Car, (follow up to Who Killed the Electric Car)

Panel discussion after, chaired by guardian environment editor

Sun 24 June / 18:45 AV Hill Theatre

http://www.opencitydocsfest.com/index.php?id=142

Robot World - A Meeting with your Alternate Double (with archive footage of robots through the ages)

Panel discussion with me, a robot anthropologist, Noel Sharkey and a NAO robot.

Fri 22 June / 12:00 Cinema Tent