Zeno, Space sharing in an academic institution is a can of worms on any level - be it a intra- or inter- departmental. Any "system" is susceptible to being "gamed" and violated by faculty types many of whom have an extremely self-centered approach - " this is what I (or my students) need and everyone else be damned". You are dealing with artists' egos here... The only way space sharing works is if there is a theater manager who manages the schedule, has the absolute power of decision over space use, sole control of access, backing of the administration and a strong stomach/backbone combination. Israel Stein > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 10:17:50 -0400 > From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com> > To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> > Subject: [CAUT] Mechanism for sharing performing arts center > Message-ID: > <cee63c600905140717v5848ea2dy92c6f5aeb15a4ddc at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Semantics aside, here's an actual college-related inquiry: > > We're going to have a new building in a few years, to be shared by the music > and theater departments, and the public concert/dance series. The three > entities have mostly separate spaces, but the main performance stage/space > is to be shared. Although each of the parties understands to some extent > and acknowledges the space usage needs of the other parties, at some point > there will probably be some time conflicts. The working committee is trying > to come up with a governance plan to resolve this kind of thing, without > bothering higher-ups such as the president, vp, or provost, and is asking > around to see if something like this already exists. > > Does anyone out there know of colleges/universities that have good systems > set up for allocating shared performance spaces? > > Thanks! > Zeno Wood > Brooklyn College > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090514/03ce84bc/attachment.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CAUT mailing list > CAUT at ptg.org > http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/caut > > > End of CAUT Digest, Vol 7, Issue 77 > *********************************** > >
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