THINK PIECES ARCHIVE

Architecture at the Pace of Reality

Thoughts at the Intersection of Time, Space and Place Diagram of the Six (6) waves of innovation that have occurred in the past 300...

Back to Work: Will Permission Equate to Adoption?

In some form, non-essential people are going back to workplaces that were recently closed. It’s inevitable, and for many necessary....

Comfortable Places for Learning: A Hawaii Story

It is the end of lunch recess and students are finding their way back into classrooms at James B. Campbell High School in Ewa Beach,...

School in Bloom

MKThink is conducting campus assessments to ensure that Hawaii’s public school facilities continue to provide positive built environments...

Optimizing Organizational Assets

Land is an opportunity Global urban land values continue to skyrocket. In the United States alone, the total value of urban land averaged...

The Power of Feedback

Confronted with the challenge of a workforce and workspace dispersed across multiple locations, the City of Davis partnered with MKThink...

What? Why?

You may notice me hanging out around San Francisco’s during the latest COVID-19 surge. I have been at the San Francisco Zoo, Stanford...

Going Back to the Office: Embracing "Kick-Ass!"

Linkedin recently published 20 Big Ideas that will shape the world in 2021. One of those ideas was that in order for people to go back to...

Keeping People in Their Homes: Fannie Mae's National Energy Efficiency Research

Fannie Mae has been looking for innovative ways to keep people in their homes. From educational programs to homeowner friendly financial...