The New York based documentary production company Kontentreal produces a series of documentaries called e² design. e² design broadcasted on the US public TV channel PBS. The Economies of Being Environmentally conscious is an original HD multipart series that explores the living vitality of the environment.
Eight different topics – from sustainable architecture to water culture to alternative energy to organic farming, recycled clothing and more – are each presented in six thirty-minute episode, challenging us to live smarter, live greener and live with the future in mind. Design E2 is narrated by Brad Pitt.
For episode 5 of season 2 e² design visits the Netherlands about for an episode on sustainable architecture and solving suburban sprawl. Dutch planners tap into their innate design sensibility and the industrial landscape to create a sustainable development in Amsterdam’s abandoned dockyards, Borneo Sporenburg. Offering an alternative to the trappings of suburban sprawl, the development maximizes space while maintaining privacy, and uses the vast waterways as core landscape design
For this episode archive footage research is needed from Amsterdam and especially from the harbour in the old days.
Featurez did the archive footage research and organised the use, copyrights and transfer.