"A room is not a container. A room is a coordination field. The furniture, the light, the door positions — they are all coordinating with the people who inhabit the space. Chi is just a name for the coordination flow that Western designers forgot to design for."
Writer and scholar who introduced the ancient Chinese system of feng shui to Western audiences through her collaboration with Grand Master Lin Yun. Her books framed environmental design as coordination practice: spaces actively shape the cognitive and emotional states of their inhabitants, creating feedback loops between physical arrangement and human behavior.