Representative experience

Different rooms.
Different rules.

Every environment has its own participants, protocols, pressures, and definition of success. The work begins by understanding what the room needs to accomplish.

Blooming Prairie High School Auditorium · Blooming Prairie, Minnesota

Owner-firstWorkflow-ledIndependent consulting
01Context matters

Technology has to belong to the place.

Familiar components may appear across projects, but the work starts with the people, workflow, architecture, and operating reality of each environment.

Auditorium viewed from a production position with a Yamaha mixing console and touch panels
01Performing arts

The audience, performers, and operators share one system.

Performance spaces bring architectural experience and technical operation into direct contact. Stage support, loudspeaker coverage, production positions, signal paths, control, and audience geometry have to work together without weakening the character of the room.

Design focus
  • Audience experience + coverage
  • Stage and production workflows
  • Control positions + signal paths
  • Architecture + technical infrastructure
Blooming Prairie High School Auditorium · Blooming Prairie, Minnesota
Courtroom with integrated displays, microphones, evidence presentation, and conferencing technology
02Judicial

Courtroom technology should support the proceeding without competing with it.

Every courtroom position carries a distinct responsibility. Courtroom consulting starts with the proceeding itself: evidence presentation, participant audio, remote appearances, recording, control, and accessibility must respect protocol.

Design focus
  • Role-specific workflows
  • Evidence + presentation
  • Remote participation
  • Speech intelligibility + record
Waukesha County Courthouse · Waukesha, Wisconsin
Minneapolis civic chamber with integrated displays, delegate microphones, and historic detailing
03Civic

Public participation must remain clear in the room and beyond it.

Civic and justice environments connect discussion, presentation, voting, recording, accessibility, and broadcast. The system must serve officials, staff, operators, in-room attendees, and remote viewers without turning the meeting into a technology exercise.

Design focus
  • Discussion + presentation
  • Public access + accessibility
  • Recording + broadcast
  • Staff and operator workflows
City of Minneapolis City Council Chambers · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Municipal production control room with operator workstations and monitoring
04Production

Design the operational layer behind a dependable public experience.

Control rooms concentrate switching, monitoring, recording, communications, and oversight. Layout, visibility, ergonomics, redundancy, and handoffs matter because the people in the room make everything beyond it appear effortless.

Design focus
  • Operator roles + sightlines
  • Monitoring + communications
  • Signal management
  • Reliability + maintainability
City of Minneapolis multi-room broadcasting system · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Microsoft Silicon Valley event theater with a large presentation wall, stage, lighting, and production systems
05Corporate theaters

A corporate theater has to perform like a broadcast system.

These rooms are statement pieces built for live production. Large-format display, multiple camera positions, broadcast control, audio mixing, switching, lighting, and operator workflows have to work together for events that feel immediate in the room and beyond it.

Design focus
  • Large-format display + content
  • Camera positions + sightlines
  • Broadcast control + switching
  • Audio, lighting + show control
Microsoft SVC event theater · Mountain View, California
Confidential client experience center with a large interactive video wall
06Experience centers

The first impression should carry the same intent as the room.

Corporate lobbies and executive environments introduce an organization before a meeting begins. Large-format display, content, sightlines, control, and serviceability have to work together so the technology feels integrated, legible, and purposeful.

Design focus
  • Arrival + wayfinding
  • Large-format display + content
  • Viewing geometry + sightlines
  • Control + maintainability
Confidential client experience center · Washington, D.C.
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