Research notes for project planning
What the project record tells us
Greek Pavilion, London Design Biennale, Somerset House, 2018
Disobedience: visitors reshape a kinetic wall
Studio INI documents Disobedience as the Greek Pavilion for the 2018 London Design Biennale at Somerset House. The 17-meter installation combined a steel-spring skeleton with a woven recycled-plastic skin. As visitors entered, the wall changed shape in response to their movement. The studio credits a multidisciplinary design and engineering team led by Nassia Inglessis. This is a concrete example of participation altering physical architecture, with collaboration and moving structure central to the work's production.
Studio INI — Disobedience ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefHow would the project team establish accessible participation, moving-element clearances, inspection routines and responsibility for the mechanism over the installation period?
Big Art Partners planning prompt A/D/O by MINI, Brooklyn; site-specific kinetic environment
Urban Imprint: public movement as a design input
Studio INI's account of Urban Imprint places the project at A/D/O by MINI in Brooklyn. The studio describes a built environment that changes in response to human presence, using the familiar language of urban materials to question fixed architectural boundaries. The emphasis is on people reshaping the space through individual and collective movement. This supports a curatorial conversation about participatory architecture; the conceptual description is not a fabrication specification or proof that the original structure can be relocated.
Studio INI — Urban Imprint project text ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefWhat observable forms of participation should the commission enable, and how would the design team test whether different visitors can meaningfully influence the space?
Big Art Partners planning prompt A/D/O by MINI; host-documented performance program
Urban Imprint: commissioning an installation and a program
A/D/O's documentation of Samaritan records an original dance performance inside Urban Imprint as part of a summer program around the installation. It credits the work to Nassia Inglessis and Studio INI, with Imogen Pickles as co-producer of the performance and a named group of dancers. The example broadens the commissioning brief beyond an installed object: choreography and public programming can engage a responsive structure over time. Such programming would need its own agreement rather than being assumed part of an artwork loan.
A/D/O — Samaritan in Urban Imprint ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10
For your project briefWould a host commission workshops or performances alongside the installation, and who would fund, produce and authorize those uses of the work?
Big Art Partners planning prompt 
