When
you walk into this environment, you are immediately flooded with the message
that this is for work, for rolling up your sleeves. It is an environment
of tools, stimulation. This is an environment to create, recreate,
store, reflect, retrieve knowledge and information. The environment
is telling you that. It is a unitary message that comes on all levels--visual,
intellectual, visceral.
Matt Taylor
Every
pattern is a rule of transformation. The fact that every pattern
is a rule of transformation means that each pattern has the power to transform
any configuration by injecting new configuration into it, without essentially
disturbing any essentials of the configuration which was there before.
Christopher Alexander
You
cannot directly manage group creativity. You can learn the shape
of human energy in the room and work with it. You can manage the
physical environment--color, light, sound, and texture: how the environment
adjusts to the work--rather than adjusting the people and the work to the
environment.
Discovering the Genius in Your Organization
MG Taylor, 1997
Expanding
the enterprise means increasing wealth for all parties. The universality
of our environments is being proved daily in this setting, as people from
all over the United States, from Canada, and from many different
European nations come to work and find comfort, challenge and creativity.
By facilitating using the Seven Domains, with our environments as a primary
part, our clients can manage the process as a system, compress the time,
and get a superior product. Time after time, our clients and their clients
acknowledge that the results they get using a combination of MG Taylor
environment, processes, and tools far outreach what they had imagined possible.
You cannot
help picking up the concept that the familiar place--home--generates a
secure feeling, and the novel one--playground--a sensation of potential
danger, and that individuals differ in how great they want that mix to
be. To interpret an environment, you must not only describe it bu
also the reactions of different individuals with different genetic and
experiential backgrounds.
Winifred Gallagher
The Power of Place, 1993
To
argue with someone else's experience is a waste of time. To add someone's
experience to your experience--to create a new experience--is possibly
valuable.
MG Taylor DesignShop Axiom