How Student Designers Turn Neighborhood Inspiration Into Workplace Community

Every year, the Steelcase NEXT Student Design Competition challenges emerging designers to create the office of the future. For its 13th year, Steelcase invited students to envision a 15,200-square-foot Los Angeles office for a fictional law firm. The aspiration was a hub for in-person collaboration in a hybrid world, for a firm guided by the mantra “Rooted in law, driven by legacy.” Set within ROW DTLA, a creative hub built to be LA’s “city within a city,” the brief called for more than a polis