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INNER WORKINGS

Woven together, the ordinary little activities we repeat each day create the fabric of our lives. Good design tailors it.

The spaces we inhabit have an enormous effect not just on how we feel, but also who we are, how we show up in the world and even in our ‘becoming’. One of the fundamental building blocks of our sense of self is what psychologists call ‘place identity’ — how we define ourselves in relation to the environments in which we spend our everyday lives. A room isn’t just background scenery,

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