Mike Lindstrom is the Principal of studioMLA / Michael Lindstrom Associates Architects in Brookline, MA, which provides a full range of architectural services in the design of environments for children. One of the leading architects in the field, Mike, along with Jim Greenman, led the annual Child Care Design Institute at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 2000 to 2008 and has served as an advisor to the American Academy of Pediatrics on Child Care Center Design. In his more than twenty years of designing both buildings and outdoor play and learning areas for children he has always focused on how the built environment can support curriculum and teacher. Recent projects have focused on child care centers as change agents in communities and on campus as well as making comfortable, warm and welcoming spaces. Mike is one of the principal organizers of the World Forum – “OnDesign” conferences and has presented widely on the design of children’s spaces.