What began as a one-year experiment has become a two decade career. Over the 1990’s and early 2000's, I worked with MG Taylor as we took the “system and method” global with the DesignShop process, Knowhere Stores and Navigation Centers, learning how to use it as an application or as a platform into which other processes and technologies could be plugged and to scale it from event and project design to venture design.

In 2006, I joined with Gail to be a partner with her in Tomorrow Makers. Where as the bulk of MG Taylor's work was with corporate and national government clients, Tomorrow Makers was Gail's avenue for reconnecting with the community-based organizations that she'd worked with in her years at the Learning Exchange. While we've only scratched the surface of our ambitions with Tomorrow Makers, the past several years have offered precious time and circumstance for shared reflecting, story telling, concept connecting, new practice inventing. Our thoughts and writings on Wayfinding is one of the manifestations of our time together, and one I - we - believe to be both significant and important to this moment in time across personal, communal and global perspectives.

These writings are not an end point on the subject for us, but a birthing of a whole new context from which we can speak to and practice our design processes. What follows then are our reflections on why Wayfinding at this particular moment in time and what the process offers in creating a resilient future.

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