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1. Some final notes on BOX, for those curious about what this project is, and what it means to me. PS: This is my first twitter thread! Scary stuff. PSS:/9 I've been lazy posting BOX updates here, but everything lives on my instagram, if you want to see more. 
2. This project originally emerged from some research I was doing into Prince George and Emily Carr collaborations, and BOX is my reaction to the way the Wood Innovation and Design Centre (WIDC) in downtown Prince George is (or isn’t) being used.
3. Originally the WIDC building was meant to house collaborative, or at least mutually informed, academic programming from @UNBC and @EmilyCarrU around design and wood innovation. Obviously, this joint programming hasn’t happened yet.
4. Instead the last couple years have been full of stories and rumours about people in charge not getting along, poor planning about where classrooms and workshops were placed, or just not knowing how to get the keys to the front door.
5. While it’s easy to brush this off as bureaucratic bullshit, it’s upsetting to me that a potential student & faculty body, who could be creating innovative research & design projects in downtown PG, is being sacrificed because a few institutional heads can’t work together.
6. What’s lost when a space that was supposed to host interdisciplinary collaborations and innovative thinking fails to do so? And what happens if you just offer up an invitation to start using the space in creative ways?
7. So I made my own BOX, which I thought was cool and interesting, but I didn’t actually know what to do with it. I invited my friends to use BOX in a way that explored their own creative practice.
8. I love seeing what we can make when we have limited infrastructure and resources, and when given prompts to think creatively something that feels awkward or confusing or underused can suddenly become a really exciting exploration, and space to form relationships around.
9. And it feels really shitty when institutions who have a lot of money, resources, and a half empty building sit on these kinds of questions for 2+ years. #waitingforanupdate #figureitout
