DESCRIPTION The project involved the design of a new labor policy center on the Rice campus, including a library, classrooms, a cafe, a theater, and exhibition space. The design also had to take into account the complex and historic fabric of Rice University, providing a key social as well as academic node.SOLUTION For the contemporary consumer, labor is generally out of sight and mind. If the goal of a labor policy center is to affect real change in contemporary labor practice, nothing has more influence than the purchasing power of the consumer. The goal, then, depends less on a specific policy agenda than on an active engagement with the public to equipt them with the information required for responsible consumerism. Ultimately, it is the informed consumer creates a more equitable, and profitable, relationship between consumers and the labor they depend on.Formally, this involved lofting the introspective classrooms and think tank, leaving the exhibition space, library, and cafe to be reclaimed by the University as public space. The areas where the public will be most informed will be the space that they reclaim, formally determined by the upper form but programmatically flexible and diverse to accommodate spontaneity and collective action.