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The line between good and bad

READER, I HAD ANOTHER column planned and partly written about how I had received a letter, and how it had spurred on questions for me about academic and artistic freedoms and the conceptual frameworks we have for building community. Already, as I write those words “academic and artistic freedoms”, I feel as though it might be just as well the writing moved away from that. I might subject you to it later so it’s not completely off the table.

For that abandoned column, I thought to ask a student, now enrolled in the Masters (Professional) of Architecture programme, for images from their studio project ‘Room for Rellies’ to accompany the text as the project had stayed

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