Leah Schweitzer is the director of a de-centered writing center. A de-centered writing center is very much what it sounds like: quite literally, it has no actual location, no one space on campus that anyone can point to and say, "that's the writing center." It was an idea born out of necessity, but it's one that poses a challenge and an answer to the resource, technology, and space problems many communication center directors--who share many of the same challenges a writing center director does--face. While much of Schweitzer's experience is born out of running a writing center, which at her relatively small university is also the site where students come for assistance with non-written communication assignments, she believes the argument she makes--that portable technology now allows writing centers to operate face-to-face tutoring sessions in any space--is applicable to all sites which strive to help students with the basic and advanced tenets of communication in all forms. Many assignments students bring to centers are no longer simply written or oral; communication in general is increasingly multimodal; both written texts and speeches (or other oral communicative acts) are often expected to incorporate some sort of visual (and even aural) text be it displayed through PowerPoint, Prezi, or some other software. Communication centers are increasingly called on to assist students with these multimodal texts and to help them think about how the aural and the visual work together with the primary text. Therefore, it makes sense that a university might have one center designed to address all of these needs. However for relatively small universities, like Schweitzer's, there may only be space and money for one center and that one tutoring space needs to be adept at helping students with all of these tasks. In this article Schweitzer argues flexible use of public spaces and portable technology can address and, perhaps, ultimately solve many of the space and material challenges all centers face.