[workshop photograpgy by Mark Hébert reconstructing priorities continued... Welcome to the ECIAD construction zone, circa September 1998. stellar performance COLOUR FIERY OUTPUT RIP READY FILE PREPARATION FOR PRINTING SCANNING FILM, BLUELINES, COLOUR KEYS, AND COLOUR LAMINATE PROOFS S STELtEAR -@RAP-HTCS - Professional service and competitive prices. We perform on both Mac and PC platforms more space in these departments, but really it’s the same amount of space but with more people in it (so technically there’s less space per person). As Ron Burnett stated; “The main issue was how to deal with an increase of demand from students for more space in those areas and how to take a square footage that you can’t enlarge and fit more into it...” (kind of like pouring water into a glass full of water or building a movie theater on an already over-crowded “industrial island”). And now we will trot back downstairs to the Foundation hallway. Foundation is by no means an exception, in fact they’re probably the epitome of this over-crowding rule. The space in each room (originally intended to house 12-15 students) is now required to support 20 students. How was this done? Well as most of you will recall the Foundation classrooms all had offices within the classrooms, and a strange little cubbyhole with a sink in it at the front of each room. The sinks were removed and put out into the halls then the offices were all moved further east with doors accessing the hallway. This opened up about ten feet of extra space in the front of each room and made the classrooms into nine neat little cubes. Finally the north walls were replaced, and let’s face it, those walls were in need of repair. The renovations to the Foundation hallway were quite logical, and I haven’t heard too many complaints. To be honest, I haven’t heard any, but it’s probably safe to assume that someone somewhere wasn’t entirely pleased; that’s just the way it goes. Along with the Foundation hallway renovations, the Accounting Office and President’s Office were remodeled as well. How convenient. The Accounting Office I agree with, the thing used to be entirely separate from the whole damn school. To get to it one had’ to go outside and back in again which was kind of pointless, now Accounting is more integrated with the rest of the Institute. Although, if we had kept it the way it was, it would have conformed to the labyrinth “architectural vision” of the South Building (and the Animation Department). The President’s Office was moved and redecorated. I had never been in the old Office, ergo I have nothing to compare it to, so I'll just mention that it’s quite an elitist space, but suppo.edly that’s what a President needs to execute his or her business. There were some renovations in the South Building, too, but I bet I can sum those up in one paragraph. [D2 and the Media Resource Centre basically switched places, some display racks were installed in the Atrium, and drywall was put up over the cement December 1998 Vol. 14, # | continued from page 20 wall that David Carter wrote his name on in the East stairwell. (On a tangent, I’ve always wondered about the fire-code safety of that stairwell. The doors only have handles on one side and lock as soon as they are closed, so if someone were to get in the there and discover that the stairwell was on fire, or that there was a serial killer in there or a pack of hyenas or what have you, they wouldn’t have a way to get out. It’s a deathtrap). Finally, let’s talk about the damn money. It is very important that everyone understands that the money for the renovations was specifically for renovations and nothing else. You can’t buy new equipment, or pay for more or better teachers with this money. That comes out of the schools capital budget, which is only increased by letting more students into the school or increasing the tuition (which has been frozen for the third year in a row so that’s not an option). Unless the government feels really friendly and increases our operations budget, our capital budget stays the same, so there aren’t many options for getting more operational funding. You may ask why the B.C. government will foot a $900,000 dollar bill to renovate our lovely Institute, but won’t do anything to help pay our pathetic operations budget. Well first of all, a renovation is a one time shot (wham, bam, thank you ma’am) while an increase in operations budgets is something that has to be maintained (kind of like having children). And if you do it for one school you have to do it for all the others (kind of like having children). Notice also, that a renovation is an_ exterior improvement, something the public sees so the government can say “look, your tax dollars at work” and that makes the public happy (well not happy, but less dissatisfied than they would be if they didn’t have access to the things they have “bought”). So the easy (cheap) way out is to pay for renovations to quiet the demands for _ more money and only give money to the neediest of schools. It just so happened that ECIAD was able to prove itself to be the neediest of schools this year. This is what Ron Burnett had to say, “We’re the smallest and we always have to struggle, and struggle, and struggle, to get funding for everything that we do, and this was a long struggle to get the money to do this.” So what if the equipment here is broken and old and slow and liable to ruin your artistic endeavors, the government gave us money for a pretty Concourse Gallery; isn’t that good enough? nFl ux ’ 6 0 8.3 A magazine about art, media, design and culture; produced at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. We've been around since the dawn of the Macintosh revolution. 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