As of November, I’m a tenant at the Centre for Social Innovation, located at 215 Spadina Avene. It is a really great organization with which I’ve felt an affinity for a while now. After my residency at the CFC Media Lab, I decided to freelance, encapsulating my consultancy as the entity Ideograph. Working from home was nice for a while, but lonely.

I really love it here. The people are really, educated, and passionate. Some are dedicated to the solvency of our relationship with the environment, others committed to the realization of our political aspirations as citizens. Humanitarians, scholars, do-gooders unite!

The CSI is an open-concept work environment. We share amenities, and through proximity that is the result of space planning, ideas. I continue to work with many another tenants, and am stimulated and validated in the work that I do daily.

As an art-maker, it is challenging enough finding the right motivation to face the void out of which summon my creations. The network I am a part of at CSI has helped structure more the business side of my identity. That isn’t to say that Andrew Mallis the artist is never present at the CSI. Indeed, there are many arts organizations present in the space, and even a few CFC grads too.

Amenities are great. Meeting rooms, kitchen, mailbox: I like. I even more so enjoy the bicycle parking in the basement and the rooftop garden.