First hour: Rochester to activate downtown assets through Rose Fellowship
Second hour: Science on Screen - Psychology in filmmaking
Rochester is one of four U.S. cities to be selected to participate in the National League of Cities' and Urban Land Institute's Rose Fellowship. During the one year fellowship, a local team will collaborate with advisers from across the nation to address a "land use" challenge. The project at hand? Activating three downtown assets: Main Street, the Genesee riverfront, and the Broad Street Aqueduct. What will downtown look like five years from now? What lessons can Rochester learn from other cities? We explore these questions with our guests:
- Gideon Berger, program director of the Daniel Rose Fellowship program at the Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use
- Nadine Fogarty, vice president of Strategic Economics in Berkeley, California
- Kevin Kelley, senior community housing planner for the Housing Division in the Department of Neighborhood and Business Development for the City of Rochester, and Rose Fellowship project manager
- Baye Muhammad, commissioner for the Department of Neighborhood and Business Development for the City of Rochester
In our second hour, we preview The Little Theatre's upcoming Science on Screen event by talking about Hitchcock's Psycho and the psychology of filmmaking. Our panel of experts will talk about how filmmakers use visual techniques to control the minds of moviegoers. We'll break down Psycho's famous "shower scene," and then explore what rules, if any, exist in modern films. Our guests:
- James Cutting, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Psychology at Cornell University
- Les Friedman, Ph.D., professor and former chair of the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Bri Merkel, special events manager for The Little Theatre
