Audio/video consultants as interpreters and advocates

Abstract

As technical designers in the architecture world, AV Consultants help architects realize their vision while preserving an appropriate and useful AV system for the people who will occupy the space for years afterward. By involving users in the design process and communicating with user-focused language, we can identify functional expectations and be free to engineer a coordinated system solution with the design team. Recognizing that many of our clients only see a big building project once or twice in a lifetime, an effective design process involves seeking input from a broad range of users, setting clear expectations, presenting design progress in a meaningful and context-based manner, and creating a sense of ownership for decisions made along the way. Users may start with lofty goals and idealistic aspirations for a project, but one that is designed and managed responsively can still be successful through expectation-setting and opening the process to those who will have to live with the results.