Practice English Speaking&Listening with: UTSC Commons - Making of Partners on campus, partners in life
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Hi. My name's Chris Garbutt.
I am the Editor of "UTSC Commons" magazine.
With each issue we try to tell the stories
that are exciting on the UTSC campus.
Stories of students.
Stories of alumni.
Stories of researchers.
We work with a firm called Hambly
and Woolley on the magazine.
And they came up with a couple of concepts.
And we've landed on one
that was chalkboard design.
Which had kind of an old-school educational
feel that we really liked.
We took the photographer studio
and transformed one wall
into a giant chalkboard.
We asked the couples to come
up with some ideas of what they'd like to see
on the chalkboard behind them.
Something that represented the research
that they're doing.
Our design firm took those ideas
and turned them into drawings.
We had a student artist come in
and put those drawings
onto the chalkboard.
We have these great researchers
who do ground-breaking research.
And it's easy to forget that these are people
who have real lives and have great stories
about -- in this case,
great stories about how they met [music].
This was a story
that actually really reflected the theme
of this issue.
In any magazine feature there's going
to be a large number of people involved.
But this one had a particular partnership
feel to it.
It was a very collaborative process
and we had a writer.
We had the communications team.
We had the photographer.
The couples themselves of course.
The design team.
A painter from facilities and services.
And the student artist.
And a video crew.
We really started to realize
that what we were doing was the kind
of partnerships
that really make UTSC a really great place to work.
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