This issue addresses (1) growing international interest in learning environments and their effects on behavior, and (2) design education, an integrated model for visual-spatial lifelong learning. It focuses on this new and emerging integrated field which integrates elements in education, new learning environment design, and the use of more two- and three-dimensional visual thinking as mainstream educational practices. Following an editorial introduction, the issue's articles are: (1) "Technology and Education" (George Lucas); (2) "Learning Is Being Alive" (Rina Swentzel); (3) "E Pluribus Unum: The New American Community School" (Steven Bingler); (4) "Environments for Children" (Dolf Schnebli); (5) "Beauty, Morality, Sunshine and Freedom" (George Anselevicius); (6) "A Case History of a Community School in Sendai, Japan" (Hiroko Hosoda); (7) "Lessons in High School Planning and Design" (C. William Brubaker); (8) "Ecology and Community" (Fritjof Capra); (9) "The Role of Designers in Design and Education" (Peter Edward Lowe and Phillip I. Nobel); and (10) "Physical Environments Do Affect Learning and Behavior of Students" (Anne Taylor). (Contains 23 references and a list of resources for learning environment design.) (EV)