One Millionth Tower is a 2011 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) interactive web documentary by Katerina Cizek that gives people living in residential skyscrapers the opportunity to work with architects and animators to reimagine their homes in 3D virtual space. The project focuses on two buildings in Kipling Towers, a grouping of 19 high-rises in Etobicoke that houses up to 20,000 people from all over the world. The webdoc allows users to navigate though their high-rise neighborhood, displaying the current state of urban decay, then activating features to show how residents would change their world, such as an animation showing where a new playground or garden would go. One Millionth Tower also features images from Flickr, Google Street Views and real-time weather data from Yahoo. It was produced by the Gerry Flahive for the NFB as part of its Highrise documentary project. Cizek's previous work in the Highrise series was the webdoc Out My Window.[1][2]
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One Millionth Tower was created using HTML5, WebGL and other open source JavaScript libraries, and utilizes Mozilla Foundation's Popcorn.js technology to add interactivity to its online videos.[1][3]
One Millionth Tower premiered simultaneously on Wired.com and the Mozilla Festival in London.[1]
One Millionth Tower was originally planned by Cizek as a linear animated documentary about reinvigorating urban housing complexes, showcasing residents’ ideas for improving their homes in the tower, but evolved into an interactive project in 3-D space. One Millionth Tower was influenced by the NFB's Challenge for Change program for participatory media, which put media creation into the hands of citizens in the 1960s and 70s.[1]
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