Genuflection: to kneel on one knee and then rise again as an act of respect.

Perfectly used here by #AmbassadorMcFaul #WordOfTheDay

Dream home.

Story. Of. My. Life.

Design thinking is not a linear path. It’s a big mass of looping back to different places in the process. ~ David Kelley, Founder of IDEO

As a master I realize that the seed of my creation is the knowledge that I bring to it. Although I must know enough, I must also be sure of the quality of what I know. ~ anonymous

Another brilliant piece! Definitely see Picasso in that last version :).

Meaningless Conversations in Beautiful Environments from Lisa Östberg on Vimeo.
So funny. So true.

A big thank you to HOK Vice President Daniel Niewoehner for sending me HOK’s recent innovation! The Academic Workplace cards are fantastic. They’re an informal tool to initiate conversations around emerging topics in environmental psychology and design. I’m particularly fond of lenses, failing upward, embrace wellness, and re-imagine entitlements. Would love to work with HOK one day! #OnMyBreakfastTable #HOK #AcademicWorkplace

“The thing I began to notice was not the fear of an ‘F’, it was the fear of any mistake,” she said. “It’s not that students couldn’t get to a final draft, they couldn’t get even their ideas down. From a teacher’s point of view, that’s a nightmare! If they can’t take a risk, then certainly they aren’t raising their hand with an I-wanna-try-this-idea-out kind of thing.” ~ Jessica Lahey (Author of The Gift of Failure). Read more here.