2018 AIA Film Challenge Winners

John Hill
9. October 2018
Photo: Screenshot from Grand Prize winner, "Past/Presence: Saving the Spring Garden School"

"Design as a catalyst for change," a line spoken in the third-place winner, could easily apply to all four winners of this year's AIA Film Challenge. The topics of the films strongly echo AIA's goal for positive community impact: the renovation of a derelict school in Philadelphia into affordable housing; the restoration and renovation of Cleveland's Karamu House, the oldest operating African American theater in the USA; the design of ChildSafe, a nonprofit serving child-abuse victims in San Antonio, Texas; and the revival of a traditional Hawaiian "hale" building in an effort to save indigenous cultural practices.

Watch the four winners below, each five minutes or less.

Grand Prize: Past/Presence: Saving the Spring Garden School

Second Place: A Joyful Gathering Place

Third Place: ChildSafe: Designed to Heal

People’s Choice Award: Ka Hale: A Revival

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