When done right, buildings are a kind of dialogue with nature and our own deeper, sensual nature. The sights, smells, texture and sounds of the built environment evoke memories, initiate streams of thought, engage soothe, provoke, bind or block abilities.

When done badly, the result is the spiritual emptiness characteristic of a great deal of modern design that reveals, in turn, a poverty of thought, perception and felling manifest of ugliness.

• Design: Part 1
  David Orr 8
• Examen – An invitation to notice life
  Editors 12
• Surveillance
  Greg Wiebe 16
• Prado Cafe
  Michelle Elrick 20
• From Turtle Island to Fortress North America
  Janis Dahl 18
• The urban landscape of Jeff Thomas
  Erin O'Hara 20
• Packaged public space
  Erin O'Hara 22
• Adventure playground
  Deborah Campbell 28
• I only know a few
  Spoke 30
• Confessions of a shelter porn addict
  Delia Coleman 32
• Equity tunnel vision
  Rob Waddell 34
• Glass
  Gary Conway 40
• High efficiency worship
  Will Braun 41
• Cochrane, Alberta (Poetry)
  Lief Baradoy 41
• A sixty-mile wedge
  Brandon Van Der Heide 44
• The holy building
  Carol Penner 48
• The Worship Centre Church
  Audrey Hindes 47
• Design: Part 2 55
• A billion squatters and growing
  Wes Janz 60
• She built a cabin in the bush
  Will Braun 62
• Open-ended utopia: The art of Rirkrit Tiravanija
  Paul Schmelzer 64
• Do-able ways to harmonize your home with the outside environment
  Geez Staff 66
• Faith in an age of climate crisis
  Tina Ashlee 68
• Staying put
  Nicholas Klassen 71
• Renovation journal
  Anna Weier 72
• Maps (Poetry)
  Celia Gilbert 76
• Refuge and asylum
  Anthony Easton 77
• Anathoth Community Farm
  Kyle Devine 78
• St. Hilda's House
  Jamie Howison 82
• Home Sweet Home
  Paula Spurr 83
• God knows where
  Robert Rowen-Herzog 84
• Tiny house
  Aiden Enns 91