The more living patterns there are in a place--a room, a building, or a town--the more it comes to life as an entity, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.
Christopher Alexander, 1979

To learn is to change.  Education is a process that changes the learner.... Learning involves interaction between the learner and the environment and its effectiveness relates to the frequency, variety and intensity of the interaction.  Education, at best, is ecstatic.
George Leonard, 1968

Each element of our environments, tools, and processes is developed in collaboration with our clients. Customized or modular, single units or total environments, all items receive the same careful attention to design--adaptability, flexibility, mobility, beauty, balance--integrated into functional, knowledge rich work environments. The Hilton Head knOwhere Store is an example of an environment that learns.  We developed or refined many of our basic designs while working with clients in this environment. Originally built as a temporary management center for a client building in a large city, the Hilton Head knOwhere store has expanded its activities to meet the needs of both national and local clients. This loction houses a retail center for home and corporate office environments and tools, and a Management Center capable of serving groups of up to fifty participants.  It serves  both the local market and the national one through a large variety of workshops and DesignShop events. It is a model of organic adaptation where stock management is done with a watchful eye to the needs of future as well as current clients.

MG Taylor knOwhere Store, Cambridge, MA
MG Taylor knOwhere Store, Palo Alto, CA
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