Investigating physical space and architecture as an interface - an adaptive system that can embody intelligence to promote new prototypes of individual and collective behaviour whilst seamlessly integrating in the ecosystem of its environment.
Nassia Inglessis, is an Artist, Engineer and Designer based in London and Athens. She founded Studio INI as an experimental practice that couples rigorous design and scientific research with public engagement in immersive and experiential installations.
To her, augmented reality is a material one; an augmented materiality that seeks to address our need for transformation. A capacity to transform that we are akin to in nature and addicted to in our updatable digital realm, but that we are yet still missing in the ‘static’ architecture of our physical creations.
With a human centric approach, Nassia explores matter in the context of cognition to provoke new perceptions, experiences and prototypes of behaviour. Her research manifests through Studio INI’s interactive installation pieces that act as an alternative platform of live experimentation and direct provocation, as part of a continuous human feedback loop of study. This practice is in line with Nassia’s belief that a crucial purpose of design is to contextualise scientific and empirical research so as to challenge predefined ideals and inspire new perspectives and prototypes of behaviour where nature, humans and their creations can ‘collide’ in synergy.
Her starting point is never a material, a form or technique, but instead a cognitive experience or interaction. She is motivated by the possibility of creating novel perceptions within the physical realm as experienced through the full palette of our senses. Exploring the properties and stretching the limits of materials and structures through digital and computational tools, has become a key component in her process and the studio’s projects. But in her entirely human -actuated creations, that have no final or definite form, the driving force of Nassia’s work is understanding how people can stretch the limits and boundaries of her projects even further, sometimes in completely unexpected ways.
With a technical foundation in Engineering Science - MEng Honours Oxford University - and training in art & design - The Royal College of Art, Imperial College London & MIT Media Lab - Nassia is naturally driven to address, with her team of designers in Studio INI, technology in its etymological aspect of τέχνη (art /skill) and λογία (reason/science). Her motivation is to design at the forefront of science and engage through art, across the working themes of matter, mind and nature.
All our talks are for free (whether you are a member or not), held in English, at the ROTONDES (Rotondes 1) in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie.
