Shivani Pinapotu is a spatial thinker and designer interested in how space intersects with story, society and our sense of self.


My earliest memory of a space was a pillowfort that my aunt had built when I was young. The experience of having a space that fit me and a place to call my own fascinated me beyond measure. I have since then been driven by the impact of empathy, wonder and a story well-told, and always find myself reaching for these virtues to position myself within a project. My practice is, therefore, an attempt to humanise the built environment.

I hold an MDes. in Interior Studies from the Rhode Island School of Design, where I concentrated in Exhibition and Narrative Environments, and have extensive experience in architecture, interiors, exhibitions and theatre design across India and the States.

I am presently working at Home Studios, Brooklyn.

Reach out to spinapot@gmail.com or find me on Linkedin, if you have anything in mind!

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scenography

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

“Shakespeare’s witches exist on the fringes of a society in which feminine attributes denote powerlessness and destruction (Duncan, Lady Macduff) and in which traditionally masculine values are equated with power. Indeed, Macbeth’s first appearance, covered with blood and receiving high praise for the slaughter of others, gives us our first idea about the acceptable patterns of behaviour, which govern the “masculine” side of this world. As Macbeth’s “partner of greatness” (1.5.10), Lady Macbeth’s “sacrifice of her womanliness” to echo Freud- “unsex me here”- further highlights the importance of the acceptance of traditionally masculine qualities in order to achieve power in the play.”  
Dr. Caroline Cakebread, Macbeth and Feminism



The great story of Macbeth is adapted to become a retelling of the society we live in. Borrowing from art and media references such as Lady Macbeth (2016), Parasite (2019) and Toyin Ojih Odutola’s A Countervailing Theory (2021), the story is rewritten to situate it from the point of view of Lady Macbeth.

program scenography - academic
professor Sara Ossana
place Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


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