Aspen Film Aspen, CO
Andrew Travers
Penner Manager of Educational Programs at the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies
The House of Tomorrow— My body is a geodesic dome
Program Description
Join us for an evening’s presentation with special guest Andrew Travers, Penner Manager of Educational Programs at the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, who will focus on interdisciplinary perspectives of art, design, and architecture. The Chris Klug Foundation will be on site to share about their work with organ transplants, and what you need to know to become a donor. Host, Clay Dahlman, News Reporter for Aspen 82.
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Aspen Film Aspen, CO
Film Synopsis
A sheltered, socially-awkward teen living in a geodesic dome with his Buckminster Fuller-worshiping grandmother becomes friends with a green-haired heart transplant patient who introduces him to punk rock.
Buckminster Fuller was one of the greatest minds of the 20th century who has become an icon of green-living, forward-thinking, and challenging the status quo. Based on the award-winning novel by Peter Bognanni, THE HOUSE OF TOMORROW tells Fuller’s incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Sixteen year old Sebastian has spent most of his life with his Nana (Academy Award-winner Ellen Burstyn) in their geodesic dome where she home schools him on the teachings of her former mentor Buckminster Fuller. But when a stroke sidelines Nana, Sebastian is taken in by a bible-banging single father from the suburbs (Nick Offerman) who is struggling to raise his son Jared: a chain-smoking, porn-obsessed, punk-loving 16-year-old with a heart transplant. A shared desire to escape their respective bubbles leads Sebastian and Jared to form a punk band and soon Sebastian experiences all the sex, drugs, and rock and roll he’d been sheltered from.
About the Speaker
Andrew Travers is the inaugural Penner Manager of Educational Programs at the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, a program of the Aspen Institute. He is responsible for designing, implementing and evaluating the Center’s educational programming and public engagement initiatives.
A former newspaper and magazine editor, Andrew has written extensively about film, arts and culture among an array of other topics. He began telling the story of Herbert Bayer and Aspen’s art history for the Aspen Daily News and Aspen Times and now does so for the Institute’s Center devoted to the artist’s life and work.
Andrew’s writing and criticism have earned awards from the Associated Press, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Colorado Press Association, Colorado Association of Libraries and Local Media Association. He is a graduate of Tulane University and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.