Your dreams are the seeds of answers to other people’s prayers. This is how you become a channel for love, and it is often how other people receive what they have prayed for.

“Human nature doesn't change. You are wasting your time if you are trying to change how people behave. But if you change their tools, you can change whatever you want.”

We seek to build a physical space that nourishes curiosity towards our inner and outer worlds. A place where connection to self & others through mind & body catalyzes personal and communal transformation. A culture where play, experimentation, and exploration are made easy, default, and exciting. Where events are designed to promote community dialogue, mutual support, and social trust. A culture that is co-created, accessible, and inviting.

Library space makes it possible for people to learn, socialize, escape, and connect in ways that no other present-day space—private, governmental, or commercial—can.

Japanese concepts of space are ambivalent about boundaries, so being a part of a place means being in dynamic relationship with it. In Japan, a building can’t be in Tokyo without Tokyo being in the building.

Great public spaces are owned by everyone and therefore ought to be designed for everyone.

Conflict and contestation are important parts of how healthy democracies progress, as long as there are structures that facilitate it. Functional public spaces are central to this work. They allow us to assemble, to share common experiences, and to demonstrate that what might have seemed like individual struggles are actually the result of unjust systems that demand correction.