This work is not easy, and it never goes smoothly. Because we are hopelessly committed to both individual and group effectiveness, groups committed to public or civic value are rarely permanent. Instead, groups need to...

Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of...

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn’t wait for no man, and that’s why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

It’s a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a normal opportunity, not just for professionals and experts but for anyone who wants it. This opportunity can work on scales...

Upgrading one’s imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Civic participants don’t aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate…

Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material...