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


Her earliest memory of a space was a pillowfort that her aunt had built when she was young. The experience of having a space that fit her and a place to call her own fascinated her beyond measure. She has since then been driven by the impact of empathy, wonder and a story well-told, and always finds herself reaching for these virtues to position herself within a project. Her practice is, therefore, an attempt to humanise the built environment.

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

She is presently working at Home Studios, Brooklyn.

Reach out to spinapot@gmail.com or find her 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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