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When creative collaborators discover incompatible working processes

My collaborator and I are working on an installation and we've been planning it for a year, but now that we're in the fabrication phase, our different working styles are creating constant friction. They need to plan every detail and I need to improvise and respond to materials, and we're both getting frustrated trying to accommodate the other person's process.

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Two makers' creative processes are fundamentally incompatible, threatening both the work and the partnership.

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