A Child’s Imagination
April 06, 2011

By Permission of the Lake Norman Magazine

“Kids can play with the child inside Mike Walker’s head at the new Discovery Place Kids museum in Huntersville. Walker designed most of the exhibit kids will see, touch, hear and operate as they role play in the museum’s nine interactive indoor and outdoor spaces, with themes including “I Can Grow,” “I Can Build” and “I Can Create.”

Walker, president of Mike Walker Creative Strategy Inc., a design firm in Charlotte, brought the imagination of a child to this work. When he designs, he is more the 6-year-old visitor than the parent deciding what to teach the child, he says. “I was always interested in toys. Everywhere I go, I visit toy stores. I think you have to be in that mode. Sometimes I get an inspiration.”