“Foreigners in filmmaking”

This chapter focuses on the audiovisual program launched in association with Habitat: The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, which took place in Vancouver, Canada, in June 1976. Tracing the role of communications development aid expert Andreas Fuglesang, it demonstrates how architectural technologies and the infrastructural and planning systems that were the stated focus of the conference found themselves entangled not only with economic and techno-scientific discourses familiar from the UN’s Development Decades but with expertise related to time-based media as films came to supplement speech and printed reports as platforms for disseminating expert knowledge and diplomatic forms of exchange.