We believe that solutions that solve problems are not over there but in here. Rooms are intentionally insular spaces that allow us to design conditions that open up groups and possibilities to new ways of understanding, seeing, and acting. As Olúfẹḿi O. Táíwò proactively asks, can “we build the kinds of rooms in which we can sit together, rather than merely seek to navigate more gracefully the rooms history has built for us.” Just like the world outside, most rooms divide. It takes inspired design, courageous facilitation, and committed groups for rooms to prefigure the very worlds we’re trying to create. To become spaces that expand notions and possibilities—that break status quo cycles and socialized norms. 

While some rooms have four walls, not every one needs to nor should. Rooms are what and where we make them. We frequently find ourselves sitting in circle on a forest floor or by the warmth of a campfire and in those little square virtual boxes bringing people together across vast locations.