Sharing our thoughts and experiences is one of the most important ways to engage the larger community and provide insights into how we approach our collaborative design process. Form + Place is committed to a multi-faceted exploration of built form and place-making, as we continually work to refine innovative ways to shape communities and make them more sustainable. Underlying this effort is the desire to truly understand the layered context in which we design, including historical, cultural and social drivers that continue to have an influence over time. We value the writing process as a tool to help us distill the issues that interest and guide us, and we value the dialogue that it generates.