Watch Fmovies. 1970 film by Eli Noyes (son of architect and designer Eliot Noyes) and his friend Claudia Weill made a film documenting the Aspen Design Conference, which convened that year around the theme “Environment by Design." The film displays the confrontation that ensued when environmental activists and students, mostly from Berkeley, California, challenged the dominant design philosophies and ideologies that circulated among the conference's elite crowd.