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Title	Home/Away
Creator	Evans, Chris
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Sustainability Office
Date Issued	2015-06-11
Description	My project for CRWR 590, collaboration between the Creative Writing Department and the Social Ecological Economic Development Studies Sustainability Program, is titled “Home/Away.” The project combines narratives, based on interviews with UBC students who have arrived in Canada as political refugees, with custom-built birdhouses. Key to the project are the concepts of “refuge,” “home,” and “identity.” Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Genre	Report
Type	Text
Language	eng
Series	University of British Columbia. CRWR 590 UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student Report
Date Available	2015-07-07
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada
DOI	10.14288/1.0108851
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54015
Affiliation	Arts, Faculty of
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
AggregatedSourceRepository	DSpace

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 UBC Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS) Student ReportChris EvansHome/AwayCRWR 590June 11, 201512961907University of British Columbia Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS Program provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or a SEEDS team representative about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report”.Christopher Evans CRWR 590 “Home/Away” Project Summary  My project for CRWR 590, collaboration between the Creative Writing Department and the Social Ecological Economic Development Studies Sustainability Program, is titled “Home/Away.” The project combines narratives, based on interviews with UBC students who have arrived in Canada as political refugees, with custom-built birdhouses. Key to the project are the concepts of “refuge,” “home,” and “identity.”  The narratives are constructed from excerpts of in-person and phone interviews with current and former UBC students, who arrived at UBC or in Canada as political refugees, from South Sudan, Rwanda, and Croatia, respectively. The interviews focused on each of the students’ own journeys and experiences, their ideas of “home” and “refuge,” and on their connections to UBC, Vancouver, and Canada. The interviews ran from twenty to forty-five minutes, while the final narratives number roughly one hundred words each. Also included is a short, personal narrative of my own, detailing my experience with people who have arrived in Canada from elsewhere.  The narratives are displayed on a sign at the base of a large tree, at the nexus of the Buchanan B and C buildings; the sign also draws a connection to the birdhouse components, which are hung in the tree above. There are five colour-coded, species-specific birdhouses, designed by myself and Eric Douglas, meant to house five different species of nesting birds commonly found on the UBC campus: wren, chickadee, finch, flicker, and sparrow. The houses are both intended to act as symbolic representations of “homes” or “refuges,” and to function as usable homes for birds.  The project was driven by my desire to explore UBC as place of refuge and home-away-from-home for both humans and animals, using both the campus’ natural beauty and the idea of a university campus as a micro-society, as additional inspirations. The concept was refined through the workshop process with my CRWR 590 classmates, as well as through conversations with Timothy Taylor, Michael Peterson, Liska Richer, Eric Douglas, and others. Because the interviews were largely unscripted, the direction of the narratives owes largely to my interview subjects, and the topics they chose to discuss.  My hope is that the “Home/Away” will encourage people in the UBC community to explore their own ideas of “home” and “refuge,” to think about their own connections to the natural environment, and to engage with those around them, uncovering the stories that make each member of the community unique. 

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