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Interactive Installation Wins International Competition for Venice Biennale

20 February 2020

Dr Vasilija Abramovic虂, Dr Ruairi Glynn and Parker Heyl have had their pavilion selected to represent Montenegro at the 17th annual Venice Architecture Biennale.

Syntony, isometric drawing, by Vasilija Abramovic, Ruairi Glynn and Parker Heyl 2020

The team鈥檚 winning pavilion design, Syntony, offers a transdisciplinary solution to this year鈥檚 competition theme 鈥 鈥楬ow will we live together?鈥 The installation听consists of a series of transdisciplinary laboratories, each with spatial perception experiments in motion, light and sound, which can be interactively explored by visitors. The team are part of the school鈥檚 , a multi-disciplinary research group.听

Watch a prototype video of Syntony in action:

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厂测苍迟辞苍测鈥檚 labs have automated sensing systems that collect occupant data and interactively control waveforms throughout the space; one lab includes a kinetic interactive installation, allowing visitors to manifest multiple simultaneous perceptual illusions of waves travelling through the room.

Alongside their research within the Interactive Architecture Lab, Dr Vasilija Abramovic虂, Dr Ruairi Glynn and Parker Heyl teach on the school鈥檚 boundary-breaking Master鈥檚, Design for Performance & Interaction MArch at 果冻影院 at Here East.听

  • Syntony will be exhibited at the 听between 29 August听鈥 29 November 2020.

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Dr Ruairi Glynn
Ruairi Glynn is the Programme Director for Design for Performance and Interaction MArch, a practicing installation artist and Associate Professor. He has exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, and the Tate Modern in London.

Dr Vasilija Abramovic虂
Vasilija Abramovic虂 is an architect, teaching fellow and researcher at The Bartlett School of Architecture. Her work has been published in conferences and journals, most recently at ACADIA 2018, and eCAADe 2017.


Parker Heyl is a mechanical engineer, roboticist and teaching fellow at The Bartlett. Previously he has worked in the MIT Media Lab as a Scratch Junior and Harvard鈥檚 iLab developing soft robotic grippers.


Image: Syntony, isometric drawing,听by Vasilija Abramovic虂, Ruairi Glynn and Parker Heyl, 2020.