SOSO: Purposefully Designing with Technology in the Workplace

Technology is more than just computers in the workplace or rows of screens on a wall. Experiential design firm SOSO creates memorable spaces that foster connection—essential in the post-pandemic office. Just as hospitality and residential environments have merged, so too have the built and virtual been increasingly blended. “The physical and digital have collapsed into one continuous world, and we think of technology in terms of all these different layers,” said Eric Gunther, co-founder and creative director at SOSO. As companies strive to attract new talent and keep their tenured employees galvanized, they are looking beyond traditional interior design to enhance the corporate settings. New furniture or fixtures are updates that tend to be quickly forgotten. Multisensory installations, however, continually change the viewers’ perceptions, which keeps them engaged over time. “Our work is integrated into the architecture, and we’re using a whole kit of parts to bring about a specific …